New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think! One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for a limited number of BAIN members and guests.
If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Venetia Featherstone-Witty at her email address chefvenetia@yahoo.com
This event Is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only and their personal guests. It you are interested In becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
Wine & Tapas is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.
Returning to a recent and much liked location, Amores Tintos. Join BAIN members, catch up, celebrate a beautiful evening, pay your dues, invite friends. RSVP so we are sure to have enough appetizers for all.
On Tuesday, October 10, 2023 we will be discussing Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.
You will be sent the Google Meet link or the physical address upon RSVP.
We have added two additional books at the end of the list (December and January). Please investigate availability as the last one was just published in 2023.
The list of the books for the rest of 2023 and January 2024 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.
October 10, 2023 Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson – 2022, 192 pp. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards
A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).
November 14 Kindred by Octavia Butler – 2009, 264 pp. “In what is considered a literary masterpiece and Butler’s most popular novel, Kindred follows a young Black woman named Dana. Though she lives in 1976 L.A., she’s suddenly transported to a Civil War-era plantation in Maryland. Soon, the more frequently Dana travels back in time, the longer she stays, as she faces a danger that threatens her life in the future.”
December 12, 2023 Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout – 2022, 304 pp. – from Amazon,“NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
“Strout’s understanding of the human condition is capacious.”—NPR”
January 9, 2024 The Guest by Emma Cline – 2023, 294 pp. From NYT review, “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force. And not just for her hosts, but for the novel itself.”
On Tuesday, September 12, at 2 pm we will be discussing Silverviewby John le Carré. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.
You will be sent the Google Meet link upon RSVP.
It would be good to add two additional books to the list so there is no discontinuity. Come with suggestions, please. And/or email suggested titles in advance.
The list of the books for the rest of 2023 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.
September 12, 2023 Silverviewby John le Carré – 2021 – 215 pp. In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself.
“[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. It’s not that he ‘transcended the genre,’ as the tired saying goes; it’s that he elevated the level of play… [Silverview’s] sense of moral ambivalence remains exquisitely calibrated.” —The New York Times Book Review
Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
October 10, 2023 Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson – 2022, 192 pp. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards
A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).
November 14, 2021Kindred by Octavia Butler – 2009, 264 pp. “In what is considered a literary masterpiece and Butler’s most popular novel, Kindred follows a young Black woman named Dana. Though she lives in 1976 L.A., she’s suddenly transported to a Civil War-era plantation in Maryland. Soon, the more frequently Dana travels back in time, the longer she stays, as she faces a danger that threatens her life in the future.”
You will receive the address upon receipt of RSVP.
Bring finger food and wine to share.
New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think! One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for a limited number of BAIN members and guests.
If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Venetia Featherstone-Witty at her email address chefvenetia@yahoo.com
This event Is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only and their personal guests. It you are interested In becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
Wine & Tapas is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.
BAIN Downtown supplies the hors d’oeuvres. You supply the fun. Drinks are on you. Good time to get to know the group, enjoy the city from a new vantage point, pay your dues, join, make plans to meet up. And hear some music!
You will receive the address upon receipt of RSVP.
Bring finger food and wine to share.
New to Buenos Aires? New to BAIN Downtown, or is this your first Wine & Tapas? It’s easier than you think! One of our members has graciously opened their doors to create a social environment for a limited number of BAIN members and guests.
If you are interested in becoming one of these fabulous hosts or if you have any questions about the event, please contact Venetia Featherstone-Witty at her email address chefvenetia@yahoo.com
This event Is limited to current BAIN Downtown members only and their personal guests. It you are interested In becoming a member of BAIN Downtown, please contact bain.downtown@gmail.com
Wine & Tapas is held in a member’s private home. Please extend your host the courtesy of an RSVP, and if it turns out that you can’t come, inform your host of that fact in advance of the event.
On Tuesday, August 8, at 2 pm we will be discussing Less by Andrew Sean Greer. This is the second Tuesday of the month, as usual. To RSVP, please email tonilin@aol.com.
If you would like to meet for lunch before the discussion, email the regular person (see above).
You will be sent the Google Meet link or the physical address of the meeting upon RSVP.
The list of the books for the rest of 2023 is included below. The list has recently changed, so check it twice, please.
August 8, 2023Less – Andrew Sean Greer – 272 pp. — 2017
Well written, insightful in humorous ways. Reminds me of Stegner a bit. Gay writer on world tour of writing retreats, trying to forget ex and get handle on with his life at 50. Light and funny… with dabs of dark.
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (The New York Times Book Review).
September 12, 2023 Silverviewby John le Carré – 2021 – 215 pp. In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself.
“[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. It’s not that he ‘transcended the genre,’ as the tired saying goes; it’s that he elevated the level of play… [Silverview’s] sense of moral ambivalence remains exquisitely calibrated.” —The New York Times Book Review
Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
October 10, 2023 Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson – 2022, 192 pp. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards
A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow burn à la Patricia Highsmith” (Oprah Daily). “You’ll struggle not to rip through in one sitting” (Vogue).
November 14, 2021Kindred by Octavia Butler – 2009, 264 pp. “In what is considered a literary masterpiece and Butler’s most popular novel, Kindred follows a young Black woman named Dana. Though she lives in 1976 L.A., she’s suddenly transported to a Civil War-era plantation in Maryland. Soon, the more frequently Dana travels back in time, the longer she stays, as she faces a danger that threatens her life in the future.”
BAIN Downtown supplies the hors d’oeuvres. You supply the fun. Drinks are on you. Good time to get to know the group, enjoy the city from a new vantage point, pay your dues, join, make plans to meet up.
BAIN Downtown 