Lena Dunham, Zadie Smith to speak at BAM and Greenlight’s Unbound lit series
Now in its third season, Unbound — a unique literary series presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore — will kick off this fall with a star-studded lineup of writers, including Zadie Smith and Brooklyn native Lena Dunham. Beginning with a Brooklyn Book Festival event, this year’s series will launch on Sept. 21 with famed writer Daniel Kehlmann in conversation with Zadie Smith.
The Unbound series originated in 2012. Violaine Huisman, director of humanities at BAM, told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle last year that BAM and Greenlight Bookstore “were thinking of ways in which to expand our collaboration and to capitalize on the great work that Greenlight Bookstore does, and we were trying to find more creative ways to expand on the success of our ‘Eat, Drink & Be Literary’ series, which takes place during the spring.”
The folks at BAM hoped to expand the institution’s literary programming, which fit perfectly with their plans to further collaborate with Greenlight, a space that hosts numerous book launches. “We thought we could provide [Greenlight] with a space to host book launches on a larger scale. Greenlight has an artistic identity in the neighborhood as a literary bookstore that presents cutting-edge writing and exciting new writers and thinkers,” said Huisman. “We wanted to have a series that reflected that identity.”