They did it last year and the Brooklyn Library's Dweck Center is doing it again starting on February 7.

It's the free literary discussion series “Cosmopolis: Immigrant
Writers in New York." Three authors join WNYC talk show host Leonard Lopate at the
Brooklyn Public Library for a reading and dialogue about their work.

Let's just take a moment to recognize the great programming at the newish Stevan Dweck Center.

Moment. Sigh. Okay. Here's the lineup for the Cosmopolis series:

Colum McCann, Irish-American author of the novel Zoli
will appear on February 7, 2009 (Saturday) at 4pm

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Widely
hailed for its “pitch-perfect control of character and narrative,”
McCann's fourth novel is based loosely on the true story of Gypsy poet Papusza,
who was orphaned by in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia but learned to read and write,
eventually becoming an acclaimed singer and a poet. (Zoli  is
available in paperback from Random House.)

  Peter Carey, two-time Booker Prize winner and
Australian-American author of His Illegal Self will appear on
March 7, 2009 (Saturday) at 4pm

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Set
during the U.S. protest movements of the 60’s and ‘70s, Peter
Carey’s portrait of “the relationship between one benighted woman
and the child who depends on her is exquisite,” said the New York
Times. (His Illegal Self is available in hardcover from Alfred A. Knopf.)

  Lucette Lagnado, Egyptian-American author of The
Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the
New World will appear on April 4, 2009 (Saturday) at 4pm:

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Wall St. Journal investigative reporter Lucette Lagnado
“gives us a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from
wartime Cairo to the New World…[conjuring] a vanished world with elegiac
ardor and uncommon grace.” said the New York Times. (The Man in
the Sharkskin Suit is available in paperback from Ecco.)

Each event is open to the general public and tickets are
free.

Each event will take place at the Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center
for Contemporary Culture, located at the Brooklyn Public Library’s
Central Library, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn (#2 or #3 train to Eastern
Parkway/Brooklyn Museum).