200 Authors, 175 Publishers/Presses; Artisanal Food Vendors; 13 Venues, Expanded “Bookend” Events all Weekend 9/10-9/12!

It’s the Brooklyn Book Festival and it’s a little more than a week away. Now in its fifth year, the Brooklyn Book Festival is one of the top book festivals in the country.

With the extraordinary literary heritage, vibrant publishing community and international reading audience of Brooklyn and New York City as its backdrop, the Festival offers the best and brightest stars in contemporary literature. The hip, huge and free all-star literary lineup includes Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, Paul Auster, Venus Williams, Nelson George, Sarah Silverman, Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, John Ashbery, Rosanne Cash, Paul Krugman, Colson Whitehead, Francine Prose, Dennis Lehane, Per Petterson, Esmeralda Santiago, Pete Hamill, Jennifer Egan, Russell Banks, Michael Connelly, John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Sam Lipsyte, Sloane Crosley, Maaza Mengiste, Paul Harding, Amy Goodman, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Jean Valentine, Elizabeth Nunez and many more, as well as children’s and young adult lit stars like Rebecca Stead, Sara Shepard, Jacqueline Woodson, Jon Scieszka, Jenny Han, Nina Crews, Mac Barnett, Tad Hills, Chris Raschka, Michael Rex, Matthew Reinhart and Francisco X. Stork.

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Both last week and this week were kind of slow musically, with one exception I’ll mention shortly.  So while we cool our heels waiting for Labor Day to come and go and the Fall Music Season to begin, let’s go take a look back at the late 20th century.  Specifically, at a video of an amazing performance of Prove It All Night by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band posted here at Now I’ve Heard Everything.

That exception to the slow week?  It’s An Evening with The Damnwells at The Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 tomorrow (Thursday 9/2) night.  The Damnwells had one of my Ten Best Albums of 2009, One Last Century, which was only available as a free download on the Internet. Their followup is now in the can and the band will be performing it live tomorrow.  There are two shows, a long sold out one at 7:30 and one at 10:15, which the band tells me is almost sold out.  So if you are interested in seeing that show, get your tickets now from The Rockwood’s website.

–Eliot Wagner