Description London-born novelist Zadie Smith is the author of
NW, which was named one of
The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2012”;
On Beauty, which won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction;
The Autograph Man; and the 2009 essay collection
Changing My Mind. Her acclaimed first novel,
White Teeth, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Smith writes regularly for
The New Yorker and
The New York Review of Books and is currently a tenured professor of creative writing at New York University.
Part of
Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2016
Moderated by Lorin Stein
Lorin Stein is the editor of
The Paris Review and an editor at large at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has worked with Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and James Wood. Stein's criticism has appeared in
Harper's, the
London Review of Books, and
The New York Review of Books. His translation of Michel Houellebecq's
Submission was published last year. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Executive Chef: Tsering Nyima
Tsering Nyima joined Great Performances as BAMcafé’s executive chef in 2010. His culinary experience is grounded in French, Indian, New American, German, Austrian, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines. Nyima was born in eastern Tibet and left at age 14 for a life of exile in India, where, at a Buddhist monastery, he learned how to cook. Nearly a decade later, he came to New York and mastered his cooking skills and knowledge under the guidance of Laurent Tourondel (BLT Steak, BLT Burger, Brasserie Ruhlmann), Gary Robins (Moko), Kurt Gutenbrunner (Wallse, Blaue Gans), and Tadeo Mikami (Hatsuhana).
