Over at Brooklyn Borough Hall, BP Marty Markowitz is announcing the date and authors slated for the Brooklyn Book Festival.Here’s what I heard: The Brooklyn Book Festival will take place on Sunday, September 23, 2012, at Borough Hall, St. Francis College , Brooklyn Historical Society, St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church and Columbus Park .

For the first time, an entire week of Brooklyn Book Festival “bookend events” will be held at clubs, bookstores, parks, theaters and libraries throughout the borough from September 17-23. For an up-to-date list of confirmed authors, visit www.brooklynbookfestival.org.

A partial list of the authors includes, Kurt Andersen, Paul Auster, Mary Higgins Clark, Billy Collins, Leela Corman, Andrea Cremer, Edwidge Danticat, Thomas Frank, Pete Hamill, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Hodgman, Derek Kirk Kim, Dennis Lehane, Philip Levine, Jaime Manrique, Terry McMillan, Carla Speed McNeil, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O’Nan, R.J. Palacio, Francine Prose, Esmeralda Santiago, Sapphire, Jon Scieszka, Adrian Tomine, Colson Whitehead, E.O. Wilson, James Wolcott