Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Sandra Cisneros

May 3, 2007 / 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

BAM Cafe, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

$45 (get tickets)
About Eat, Drink & Be Literary:

A unique series for sophisticated writers, readers, and eaters, Eat, Drink & Be Literary continues the momentum of the past two sell-out series, bringing major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, readings, and discussions that are always entertaining and engaging.

Events begin with a sumptuous buffet created by BAMcafé’s acclaimed executive chef, Coleman Foster, with premium wine provided by Pine Ridge Winery; live acoustic music accompanies dinner. Following the performance and dinner, authors read from their work and are interviewed by a moderator, providing a forum for authors to talk candidly about the artistic and thematic issues that inform their work. An audience Q&A and a book signing complete the evening.

About the author:

“In this lovingly told and poetic novel, Cisneros uses the storytelling art to give these voiceless ones a voice, and to find the border to the past, imbuing the struggles of her family and her countries with the richness of myth.”—LOS ANGELES TIMES ON  CARAMELO

“I really wanted to expand and push myself and do something that I didn’t have a model for. I didn’t even know how to make what I wanted. I just knew that I could see it in my mind’s eye for a flash of a second and then I was in the dark. So I was mainly in the dark, experimenting.”—SANDRA CISNEROS

Sandra Cisneros lives and writes in San Antonio, Texas. Her work includes a collection of poetry; a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek; a children’s book; and two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo. She has worked as a teacher to high school dropouts, a poet-in-the-schools, and a visiting writer at a number of universities. Cisneros was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1995.

Interviewed by Jessica Hagedorn.

Dinner music TBA