I didn’t go to the Brooklyn Book Festival press conference last Friday night but I did get the lowdown from The Book Standard. The festival will honor OTBKB fave, Paul Auster.

Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President, made several announcements on Friday about the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival,
which will be held on Sept. 16 at Borough Hall in Brooklyn. The
festival will again have several outdoor stages, indoor reading rooms
and Young Authors programming, including a teen writing contest.
Markowitz also announced that legendary Brooklyn author Paul Auster
would be honored at the Festival Gala on Sept. 15.
 
Johnny Temple, the publisher of Akashic Books and the
chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, also announced several authors
who are confirmed for the event, including Neal Pollack, Paula Fox,
Myla Goldberg, Colson Whitehead, Alesia Valdez-Rodriguez, Uzodinma
Iweala, George Packer, Mo Willems and A.M Homes.