A unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, Eat, Drink & Be Literary brings major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, entertaining readings, and engaging discussions.
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Guggenheim fellow, Ann Patchett-the author of six novels-comes to BAM.

Sapphire's work explores the experience of poverty and struggle in black America.

Edwidge Danticat is an incisive chronicler of Haitian and West Indian experience.

Johnson is the recipient of a Lannan fellowship in fiction and a Whiting Writer's Award.

Writer Aleksandar Hemon comes to BAM for Eat, Drink & Be Literary.

The author of two critically acclaimed books comes to BAM.

Born in the former Yugoslavia in 1985, Téa Obreht is the author of The Tiger's Wife.

Russell Banks-author of The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction-comes to BAM.