Talk To Me: Breslin Goes to the Mattresses
Author Jimmy Breslin is a New Yorker through and through. In 1969, the tough-as-nails journalist ran for New York City Council president on the platform that the city should secceed from the rest of...
View ArticleTalk To Me: Deborah Eisenberg Sums Up Shorts
Short story writer Deborah Eisenberg discussed her "dense, jewel-like" writing at BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series.But, as Eisenberg admited in this 2008 session, her work could also easily be...
View ArticleTalk To Me: Gary Shteyngart's Spiel
Russian-born satirical writer Gary Shteyngart explains his approach to writing "at a time when evil and stupidity collide."In this 2007 session of BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series, Shteyngart...
View ArticleTalk To Me: Jonathan Franzen Gets Personal
Novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen put his private life on public display.In this 2007 session from BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series, Franzen read from his memoir The Discomfort Zone. In...
View ArticleTalk To Me: Pete Hamill Talks Print
Brooklyn-born writer Pete Hamill drew from decades of living in New York and 50 years of writing about it to pen the novel Snow in August.For a 2007 session of BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary...
View ArticleTalk To Me: Inside Art Spiegelman's Head
Graphic artist and novelist Art Spiegelman talks about the thought process behind his work as part of BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series.Spiegelman discusses how he juxtaposes time with images —...
View Article30 Years of Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is a novelist, poet, bookstore owner and one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People (1990). She's been a leading voice for Native American literature throughout her writing...
View ArticlePeter Carey's Deceptional Devices
The two-time Booker Prize-winning Australian author Peter Carey discussed writing with an American perspective.From this 2007 session of BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series, Carey read from his...
View ArticleNathan Englander Expounds on Execution
Short story writer and novelist Nathan Englander dissected his writing and research methodology.From this 2009 session of BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary series, Englander read from his novel The...
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