Enjoy an exclusive evening with special guest Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, as we honor Sonny Mehta, Knopf Publisher & Editor-in-Chief with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Our venue will be At Vermilion, where you can sip signature “herb & spice" cocktails and feast on entrees melding contemporary Indian and Latin American cuisines. Buy tickets here.

Listen to writers “narrate” a film clip with one of their creative works. Explore Japanese American and post-9/11 South Asian internment, and just sip cocktails with renowned writers. The day culminates in a special reading with Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, who reads from her new short story collection Unaccustomed Earth. Buy tickets here.