May 07, 2007

Second annual Brooklyn Book Festival set for Sept. 16

Like a story headed to its all-too-obvious conclusion, the Brooklyn Book Festival is of course going to become an annual event, it was announced Friday.

The 2007 event is set for September 16, a Sunday. Paul Auster, author of "Brooklyn Follies," "The New York Trilogy" and most recently "Travels in the Scriptorium," will be the honoree at the Saturday night Festival Gala.

Other confirmed participants: Chris Abani, Colin Channer, Staceyann Chin, Mike Farrell, Paula Fox, Amitav Ghosh, Myla Goldberg, Kimiko Hahn, A.M. Homes, Uzodinma Iweala, Phillip Lopate, Gloria Naylor, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, George Packer, Neal Pollack, Carl Hancock Rux, George Saunders, Robert Sullivan, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Ivan Valez Jr., Colson Whitehead, Mo Willems, and Tia Williams.

Like last year, the event will be held inside Brooklyn's Borough Hall and in the plaza out front with several stages and dozens of booths. More than 10,000 people showed up in 2006, as did more than 100 vendors.

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May 7, 2007 01:13 PM in Out of Manhattan

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