August 15, 2008

Lineup announced for Brooklyn Book Fest on Sept. 14

This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, set for September 14, plans to branch further afield, drawing authors including Joan Didion, Pico Iyer, Thurston Moore, George Pelecanos, Terry McMillan and Dorothy Allison.

Now in its third year, the event will expand to five outdoor stages in Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park, plus Reading Rooms inside Borough Hall and a few blocks away at the Brooklyn Historical Society and St. Francis College auditorium. There will be themed readings, panel discussions and an outdoor literary marketplace with more than 140 booksellers, publishers and literary organizations.

“These days, Brooklyn is indeed the Creative Capital of America. We’re home to many of the world’s renowned writers and a thriving reading audience—as well as a destination for culture-seeking tourists worldwide,” Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said in a statement announcing the list of authors already confirmed for the event.

The authors thus far: Henry Alford, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks, Moustafa Bayoumi, Mo Beasley, Paul Beatty, Ross Benjamin, Charles Bock, Philip Boehm, Mirko Bonne, Jimmy Breslin, Breyten Breytenbach, Geoff Canada, Susan Choi, Kate Christensen, Melissa Clark, Gabriel Cohen, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Celine Curiol, Frank Delaney, Stacey D’Erasmo, Joan Didion, Robert Draper, Nathan Englander, Rachel Fereshleiser, Nick Flynn, Jonathan Franzen, David Frum, Andrew Sean Greer, Ben Greenman, Philippe Grimbert, Paul Guest, Pete Hamill, Theodore Hamm, Kathryn Harrison, Matthea Harvey, A.M. Homes, Pico Iyer, Steven Jenkins, Oonya Kempadoo, Porochista Khakpour, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Lily Koppel, Jonathan Lethem, Tao Lin, Sandra Tsing Loh, Leonard Lopate, Phillip Lopate, John R. MacArthur, Ian MacKaye, John Manbeck, Alice Mattison, Patrick McGrath, Terry McMillan, Joe Meno, Thurston Moore, Arthur Nersesian, Jay Neugeboren, Fae Myenne Ng, Elizabeth Nunez, D. Nurkse, Joseph O’Neill, Ed Park, Jose Luis Peixoto, George Pelecanos, Arthur Phillips, Darryl Pinckney, Katha Pollitt, Kevin Powell, Richard Price, David Rakoff, Elizabeth Reddin, Nathaniel Rich, Simon Rich, Steven Rinella, Cristy C. Road, Carl Hancock Rux, Linda Sanchez, Loretta Sanchez, Esmeralda Santiago, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Ken Siegelman, Amy Shearn, Owen Sheers, Robert Silvers, Larry Smith, Patricia Smith, Amanda Stern, Manil Suri, Paco I. Taibo II, Paul Tough, Nikki Turner, Linn Ullmann, Matt Weiland, Jacob Weisberg, Sean Wilsey, Dirk Wittenborn, Naomi Wolf, Peter Wortsman, Kevin Young and Gary Younge.

There will be a Target-sponsored children’s area with readings from the likes of Mo Willems and Jane O’Connor. Other confirmed childrens authors: Raul Colon, Grace Chang, Nina Crews, Melanie Hope Greenberg, Edward Hemingway, Betsy Lewin, Ted Lewin, John Bemelmans Marciano, Chris Myers, Chris Raschka, Jon Scieszka and Marilyn Singer.

There’s a separate Youth Stoop stage, which will include panels on graphic novels, fantasy and teen glamour fiction. Confirmed youth authors: Holly Black, Susan Cooper, Deborah Gregory, Gail Carson Levine, David Levithan, Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah Mlynowski, An Na, Ariel Schrag, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Paul Valponi, Ivan Velez Jr., Cecily von Ziegesar, Brian Wood, Jacqueline Woodson and Bil Wright.

Brooklyn Book Fest is also on Facebook and MySpace.

Brooklyn Book Festival
September 14, (Sunday)
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
209 Joralemon St., map

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August 15, 2008 7:59 AM in Cheap Stuff, Kids, Out of Manhattan, Shopology

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