Tables of Contents creates unique and delicious gatherings and conversations at the intersections of food, literature, arts, and culture. Founded by chef Evan Hanczor in 2012 with a dinner inspired by The Sun Also Rises, Tables of Contents has grown to collaborate with over 250 leading contemporary writers, musicians, and artists at the intersections of food and creativity, including National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur recipients, and literal rock stars. Our curation highlights voices and perspectives that have often been under-considered and the individuals who are building our contemporary canon.
Terrance Hayes is the author of How to Be Drawn, a National Book Award finalist, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Zell Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Tao Leigh Goffe is a London-born, award-winning Black British writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York. For the past fifteen years she has worked as an academic and has been invited to give keynote lectures in her specialities of colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. Her second book Black Capital, Chinese Debt, presents a long history of racialization, modern finance, and indebtedness. It brings together subjects of the Atlantic and Pacific markets from 1806 to the present under European colonialism.
Adam Haslett is the author of Imagine Me Gone, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; You Are Not a Stranger Here, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Union Atlantic, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His books have been translated into thirty languages, and his journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation, and The Atlantic, among others. He currently directs the MFA Program at Hunter College.
Each ticket includes three small dishes inspired by the passages, and one complimentary drink. Additional drinks will be available for purchase. Our friends Sammi and Olivia of Cocktails in Color will be mixing up cocktails inspired by the book, so you'll want to make room for a couple! And the good folks at Books Are Magic will be with us selling books, so come ready to pick up a few copies!
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