Lots to do today at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Aside from the endlessly fascinating marketplace where established, indie and emerging publishers of all stripes display their wares, there’s an amazing array of authors and thinkers on panels and readings. Below I offer a taste. There’s so much more. Check out the schedule at the Brooklyn Book Festival website
Unbound: Daniel Kehlmann with Zadie Smith, presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore.
Borough Hall Courtroom
September 21, 2014
11:00am
How to Write About a City
Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge
September 21, 2014
1:00pm
With Phillip Lopate (ed. Writing New York: A Literary Anthology), Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America) and Edmund White (Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris). Moderated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Leaving Brooklyn).
Losing and Finding Yourself: Comics of Heartbreak and Healing
Brooklyn Historical Society
September 21, 2014
2:00pm
Gabrielle Bell (Truth is Fragmentary), Mana Neyestani (An Iranian Metamorphosis), John Porcellino (Hospital Suite), and Anya Ulinich (Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel). Moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos, ed., Best American Comics. Featuring screen projection.
Jonathan Lethem and Jules Feiffer in Conversation
St. Francis College Auditorium
September 21, 2014
4:00pm
Ties That Bind, or Tear Us Apart
St. Francis McArdle
September 21, 2014
4:00pm
Kyle Minor (Praying Drunk), Darcey Steinke (Sister Golden Hair), Bill Hillman (The Old Neighborhood). Moderated by Beth Bosworth, The Source of Life and Other Stories.
The Hilarity of Death and Deadlines with Roz Chast,
Robert Makoff and Hillary Chute.
St. Francis College Auditorium
September 21, 2014
11:00am
About Africa
St. Francis McArdle
September 21, 2014
12:00pm
Susan Minot (Thirty Girls), Dinaw Mengestu (All Our Names), and Bridgett Davis (Into the Go-Slow) discuss love stories, growing up, and the search for meaningfulness across the continent of Africa.
Animal Heroes
North Stage
September 21, 2014
12:00pm
Loyal, brave, sharing, protective, loving… from house dogs to military dogs…
So, Can You Judge a Book By Its Cover?
St. Francis College Auditorium
September 21, 2014
12:00pm
Graphic designers and book cover design icons Chip Kidd (GO! A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, Book One: Work) is joined by Riverhead Press art director Helen Yentus. Moderated by Brian Tate.