Orhan Pamuk, Alice McDermott and T.C. Boyle Discuss New Fiction Works in Brooklyn This October

Brooklyn Public Library will host three major book presentations this month as part of its 2017 fall season, convening noted writers, scholars, Nobel Prize winners, critics, and artists with the public to discuss issues that are vital to communities in Brooklyn and across the city and nation.

Brooklyn Public Library's fall season marks its commitment to producing innovative programs that engage diverse audiences and bring people together to explore new and compelling ideas.

Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch

Dweck Center

10 Grand Army Plaza

Brooklyn, NY 11238

Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk on The Red-Haired Woman

In Conversation with Mary von Aue, editor at Vocactiv

Monday, October 2

7:30 - 9:00pm

Orhan Pamuk discusses his latest novel, The Red-Haired Woman (Deckle Edge, 2017), the story of a well-digger and his apprentice looking for water on barren land, weaving a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them on the outskirts of a small Turkish town. Among many works of fiction and non-fiction, Pamuk is the author of the critically-acclaimed novels Snow (Vintage, 2005) and My Name is Red (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) and was the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Apart from three years in New York, Orhan Pamuk has spent all his life in the same streets and district of Istanbul, and he now lives in the building where he was raised.

Mr. Pamuk will be in discussion with Mary von Aue, an editor at Vocativ, an online video publisher, and a contributing editor at Warscapes, an independent magazine that covers war and conflicts across the globe.

T.C. Boyle discusses The Relive Box and Other Stories

Thursday, October 5

7:30 - 9:00pm

The author of a string of well-regarded novels, T.C. Boyle's The Relive Box and Other Stories (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017) shows that he is also a master of the short story. From the title story, featuring a so-called relive box that allows users to experience anew almost any moment from their past, to "The Five-Pound Burrito," the tale of a man aiming to build the biggest burrito in town, the twelve stories in the collection represent a whole new way of looking at the world from one of the best storytellers at work today. T.C. Boyle has published fourteen novels and ten collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his novel World's End, and the Prix Médicis étranger for The Tortilla Curtain in 1995, as well as the 2014 Henry David Thoreau award for excellence in nature writing. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.

National Book Award winner Alice McDermott on The Ninth Hour

In conversation with New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead

Thursday, October 12

7:30 - 9:00pm

Born in Brooklyn, Alice McDermott is the author of critically-acclaimed novels including That Night (1987), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Charming Billy (1998), the winner of the National Book Award. In her latest novel The Ninth Hour, Catholic Brooklyn in the early part of the twentieth century is the backdrop to a suicide that, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives?testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, through multiple generations. McDermott will be in conversation with Rebecca Mead, a Brooklyn-based author and staff writer for the New Yorker.

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