Don’t forget about: “Cosmopolis: Immigrant Writers in New York,” the free literary discussion series, which introduces three trendsetting fiction authors to Brooklyn readers, as they join WNYC talk show host Leonard Lopate at the Brooklyn Public Library for a reading and dialogue about their work.

Ya missed my fave Junot Diaz. And Dalia Sofer, author of The September of Shiraz.

But Lara Vapnyar, author of Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, will appear on Saturday, December 6 at 4 p.m.

As the Associated Press recently observed, she is “one of a growing group of Soviet-born immigrants to emerge as popular writers in the United States. Mixing drama, satire and personal experience, they explore the bitter, confusing but often comic tales of Russian and Soviet immigrants stuck between their troubled homeland and the country where they long sought to live but to which they have not yet adjusted.”

Having learned to speak English after emigrating to the U.S. from Moscow in 1994, Vapnyar has been called “a talented writer, possessed of an ample humor and insight and a humane sensibility” (New York Times Book Review). Her story collection was released in hardcover earlier this year by Pantheon Books.

The Where and When

December 6 at 4 p.m.
Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library
at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn
(#2 or #3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum).
The event is open to the general public and tickets are free.