BAM and Greenlight Bookstore partner to host launches for Lethem, Dawkins
Brooklyn BookBeat
Unbound, a unique literary series presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore, will return for its second season this September. Following a successful inaugural year, this fall’s program will feature renowned authors Jonathan Lethem (Sept. 10) and Richard Dawkins (Sept. 23).
After forging a relationship, BAM and Greenlight were eager to enhance their partnership. Violaine Huisman, director of humanities at BAM, told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “We 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.”
In its first season, Unbound hosted critically acclaimed authors Gary Shteyngart, Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and Andrew Zolli. The popularity of the series and widespread community support encouraged BAM and Greenlight to resume their partnership this year.