TICKETS
Eat, Drink & Be Literary
$48 (includes dinner, wine, tax, and tip). Tickets must be ordered 48 hours prior to event.

BAMfamily Book Brunch
$20 for adults, $15 for children 15 and under (includes lunch, tax, and tip).

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MODERATORS
Harold Augenbraum
Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, founder of the Proust Society of America, and editor of the forthcoming Collected Poems of Marcel Proust, has also written about and taught U.S. Latino literature and Asian American literature.

Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic. He is the author of Wild Gratitude—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award—and of the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. His seventh collection of poems, Special Orders, will be published in March 2008. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He now serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Bradford Morrow
Bradford Morrow's novels include Come Sunday, Giovanni's Gift, Ariel's Crossing, and the forthcoming The Fifth Turning. Founding editor of the literary journal Conjunctions and the recipient of numerous awards, he currently teaches literature and is a Bard Center Fellow at Bard College.

Aoibheann Sweeney
Aoibheann Sweeney is the Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and has written book reviews for publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book World. Her first novel, Among Other Things I've Taken Up Smoking, was published this year.


SAMPLE MENU
• Baby mizuna salad with julienne carrots, jicama, cucumbers, golden raisins, and roasted pistachios served with creamy garlic and lemon vinaigrette

• Roasted harvest vegetables and fettucine

• Katchkie farm grilled organic vegetable platter with zucchini, squash, eggplant, spring onion, fennel, and tomatoes

•Cabernet-glazed grilled salmon filet served with citrus infused ragout of baby carrots, bok choy, and fingerling potatoes

•Forest mushroom and asparagus chick roulade served with herb-roasted red bliss potatoes and fine herb sauce


NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
The mission of the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Please visit the National Book Awards website at nationalbook.org for more information.


BAMFAMILY BOOK BRUNCH On Sat, Apr 12, bring the kids to a special family program featuring award-winning authors. More details coming soon.


SPONSORS
Bloomberg