Moderated by Ama Codjoe (Blood of the Air). Cultural and programming partners include BAM, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn Public Library, Cave Canem, Center for Fiction, The Nation, National Book Foundation, New York Review of Books, PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America, Saint Anns School, St. Francis College, The Times Literary Supplement, Whiting Foundation. Sexuality, in its various formsas a source of self-assertion and defiance, mystery and wonder, power and controlis a crucial feature of modern identity. Its going to be great! Sunday, September 18: Attend BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL FESTIVAL DAY, as well as a pre-Festival early Poetry and Yoga Stretch hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library and in the evening, City of Asylum presents Aliens of Extraordinary Talentwriters in exile reading from their works at LMHQ (Manhattan). Lit and the Rumpus are throwing the after-party, Dark Nights, Bright Lightscome for the author readings; stay for the music and dancing at Electric Studios. Henry and Lin will discuss their inspiration from working in Hollywood, how they met, and their writing process for the Alien Superstar series. Greed runs rampant when a powerful new metal arrives on earth in the wake of a meteor shower, spawning a resource frenzy that engulfs a small community. From creating slice-of-life cyclops and mermaid stories to horror-infused dramas and Afrofuturist epics, worldbuildingcomplete with specific rules, cultures, and logicis no small feat. This year we introduce novelists Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Mona at Sea), Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (The Theory of Flight), and Colleen Van Niekerk (A Conspiracy of Mothers). Neil Shubin (Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA), Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred) and Carl Zimmer (Lifes Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive) on the science, philosophy, and practice of drawing the line between life and everything else. Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Join award-winning mystery authors Naomi Hirahara and Walter Mosley for a discussion about their prolific and versatile writing livest. In an era when the definitions of life are being reconsidered, it is critically important that science education become more inclusive for all to be part of that discussion. Presented by Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. Writing about family or historical figures presents a delicate challenge: How can a new work remain faithful to the work and words of others? We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Mosleys indefatigable detective, Easy Rawlins, returns in Blood Grove, solving a new mystery on the streets of Southern California in 1969. Moderated by Lauren Christensen. The Bookends Committee includes Julie Buntin, Jamie Burns, Ryan Chapman, Mensah Demary, Hafizah Geter, Catherine LaSota, and Kellie Rogers. Two mothers reckon with their marriage and their relationship with their troubled son in With Teeth by Kristen Arnett. These three authors explore what it means to survive and the pursuit of perseverance in their novels. (virtual), Building Worlds in Speculative Storytelling (virtual), Intimacy on the Page: Closeness and Distance (virtual), Incarceration and its Afterlives (virtual), Using History to Break Its Cycle (virtual), Hope, Possibility, & Re-Reckoning (virtual), Madness and Society (Virtual International Stage), Translating Lives and Legacies in Food Culture (virtual), Twilight Zones of History (Virtual International Stage), Personal Stories, Universal Resonance (virtual), The Thin Line Between Horror and Reality (Virtual International Stage-in Spanish), The Science of Life: Past, Present and Future Thoughts (virtual), The Burden of Memory (Virtual International Stage), Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Multiple Grammy Awardwinning musician Ziggy Marley has been making music and books for children for many years.
Be sure to visitwww.brooklynbookfestival.org or check out the offical Facebook page, follow the Festival on Instagram (@bkbookfest), on Twitter (@BKBF), on Tumblr and past Festival photos on Flickr, Presented by Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. Stine, Cecily von Ziegesar, Yaghoub Yadali, and more! Moderated by The Marshall Projects Keri Blakinger. Two acclaimed authors discuss their hybrid mode. Issue Project Room (Brooklyn) presents Erased Architecture, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of William S. Burroughss birth with a collage of sight and sound in performances by writer/actor Steve Buscemi and composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp. We have an incredible lineup of over 50 literary-themed events in multiple boroughs, in clubs, bookstores, libraries, theaters, and open spaces throughout the city. How much should the themes of these personal stories transcend their subjects? And in Haitian writer Myriam J.A. . A dystopian London, a child caught in the midst of a deadly epidemic, and a grieving taxi driver in a ghostly Washington, D.C. Join the authors of A River Called Time (Courttia Newland), Phase Six (Jim Shepard), and Creatures of Passage (Morowa Yejid) for a conversation on what draws them to speculative fiction, from world-building to the mechanics that make a story tick. What makes the personal universal? Greenlight Books and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses host the Seventh Annual Brooklyn Indie Party to celebrate the literary independence of the borough and its Festival. Growing up in postwar Brooklyn, Turkle searched for clues to her identity in a house filled with mysteries. Moderated by. Actor Henry Winkler and SCBWI executive director Lin Oliver will discuss the next hilarious, action-packed adventure in their New York Times bestselling Alien Superstar series: HOLLYWOOD VS. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with our latest news. . In Nudes, Elle Nashs short stories traverse the lives and desires of working-class women, from ex-sex workers to brides-to-be. The Opening Night Party will be at Bell House (Brooklyn), presented by several literary partners, including PEN America, Literary Hub, Catapult, Tumblr and Electric Literature. Brontez Purnells 100 Boyfriends follows queer men across the country as they navigate messy relationships and emotional minefields. There are many ways to break cycles of oppression. Moderated by, Water has taken over a hot world and few places survive, but a magical place called Garbagetown and a girl full of love. Presented by Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. Tuesday, September 13: R.L. Presented by Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. BOOKEND EVENT AUTHORS INCLUDE: Patti Smith, Ann Patchett, Steve Buscemi, Rivka Galchen, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Mike Lupica, Susan Faludi, Walton Muyumba, Carl Hancock Rux, Olive Senior, R.L. We were thrilled to return to a live Festival in 2021, in addition to presenting a full slate of virtual events. By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. Join these authors for a conversation about their new books and how the sexiest stories are sometimes also the funniest. Moderated by Alana Marie Levinson Labrosse. BROOKLYN, NY Friday, August 26, 2016New York City is indeed the capital of the literary world the week of September 12-18, 2016, when the Brooklyn Book Festivalpresents Bookends, more than 50 special events that highlight the literary diversity of New York City across the boroughs. And in The Wildest Ride , an undefeated rodeo champ is challenged by a worthy opponent, but their relationship might end up being an even wilder ride than the rodeo itself. Moderated by Kendall Storey, senior editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press. Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. How can it retain their voices, and the spirit that animates their efforts? The 2022 Festival will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn and virtual for all to enjoy. Each season BKBF presents debut authors, who we want to shine the light on for our audience.
Its going to be great! 32 is hosting a discussion about Managerial Liberalism and Our Discontentis there liberal exhaustion? The Brooklyn Book Festival proudly honors poet Toi Derricotte with its 2021 BoBi Award, the Festivals highest honor, in recognition of her work as a poet and award-winning writer, and as the co-founder of Brooklyn-based Cave Canem. A high-powered attorney returns to her southern small town and meets and meets an unexpected love interest in Sweet Tea. Its going to be great! Contemporary Latin American authors frequently explore the tension between horror and humanity, unearthing personal and historical trauma while examining the dark side of our interconnected world. By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. Book #3 continues Buddys adventures and is filled with humor, heart, and laugh-out-loud adventures. Moderated by Dwyer Murphy, editor in chief of CrimeReads. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with our latest news. Moderated by writer and editor Danny Lore (Queen of Bad Dreams, FIYAH Magazine). Join. ) Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with our latest news. Book #3 continues Buddys adventures and is filled with humor, heart, and laugh-out-loud adventures. Hiraharas latest mystery, Clark and Division, revolves around a Japanese American family building a new life in 1940s Chicago after their release from mass incarceration during World War II. Actor Henry Winkler and SCBWI executive director Lin Oliver will discuss the next hilarious, action-packed adventure in their New York Times bestselling Alien Superstar series: HOLLYWOOD VS. Or head to La La Land by way of Queens where the coolest girl to ever dump Hollywood Mara Wilson reads from her memoir Where Am I Now? By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. Co-presented with the Nashville/Southern Festival of Books. In three astonishing new novels, the past hovers over the present like a ghost. Nguyens latest novel, The Committed, follows the man of two minds as he takes refuge in 1980s Paris, only to find himself immersed in the citys criminal underworld. In Groffs Matrix, a young woman in early medieval Europe is sent to oversee an impoverished order of nuns, finding an unexpected sense of purpose in the sisterhood.
This years Festival runs September 26 October 4, 2021 and is 9 days of literary events both in person and virtual. A conversation with Rachel Kushner (The Hard Crowd), Jerald Walker (How to Make a Slave and Other Essays), and Aminatta Forna (The Window Seat). Moderated by Hafizah Geter. Experience select virtual events from the 2021 Festival HERE. Though they are often overlooked, the burdens of prison do not fall only on prisoners. Poets Kendra Allen (The Collection Plate), Jorie Graham (Runaway), Donika Kelly (The Renunciations), and Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain) discuss their explorations of survival and human resilience in the face of political and personal trauma/struggle. The Bocas Literary Festival will be at the Old Stone House (Brooklyn) with Five Burning Voices from the Caribbean featuring authors and poets from Jamaica, Trinidad, the US Virgin Islands. SEPTEMBER 12 18, Week of 50+ hip, smart, diverse literary events in run-up to Sunday festival, presented with partners and independent bookstores in Brooklyn and NYC. Presented by Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc. and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council. Award presentation by Literary Council co-chair Camille Rankine with readings and tributes by Hafizah Geter, and other guests. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Lisa Lucas, publisher of Pantheon Books, will interview Ziggy about his new books and how he became so dedicated to making art for children. Lisa Lucas, publisher of Pantheon Books, will interview Ziggy about his new books and how he became so dedicated to making art for children. The 2022 Festival will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn and virtual for all to enjoy. Join Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout) as he leads a conversation with award-winning author Benjamin Percy (The Ninth Metal) and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente (The Past is Red) discuss the environmental critique within their books and the response of human nature in the face of abundance and desperation. Join us for a conversation on the intersecting power of Black cultural legacies and Americas national collective memory, with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature), Tiya Miles (All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashleys Sack, a Black Family Keepsake), and Clint Smith (How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America). Lisa Lucas, publisher of Pantheon Books, will interview Ziggy about his new books and how he became so dedicated to making art for children. The Brooklyn Book Festival proudly honors poet Toi Derricotte with its 2021 BoBi Award, the Festivals highest honor, in recognition of her work as a poet and award-winning writer, and as the co-founder of Brooklyn-based Cave Canem. Moderated by Rakesh Satyal (No One Can Pronounce My Name). Moderated by author and translator Adrian Nathan West. His newest work, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, is rightfully being lauded as his strongest to date. Parties, film screenings, book launches and stand-up comic showcases are just part of the fresh, engaging entertainment leading up to the Brooklyn Book Festivals main festival day on Sunday, September 18. The Brooklyn Book Festival proudly honors poet, Uyghur poetry has flourished for many centuries, its richness reflecting the cosmopolitanism of a culture at the crossroads of Eurasia. By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. The friends, loved ones, and communities of people who are incarceratedand even those who have served their time and returned homeoften find their lives reshaped. Moderated by MJ Franklin (New York Times). See the BKBF author list HERE and below. Greed runs rampant when a powerful new metal arrives on earth in the wake of a meteor shower, spawning a resource frenzy that engulfs a small community. Join Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout) as he leads a conversation with award-winning author Benjamin Percy (The Ninth Metal) and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente (The Past is Red) discuss the environmental critique within their books and the response of human nature in the face of abundance and desperation. Chancys What Storm, What Thunder, the islands devastating 2010 earthquake is recalled with an eerie relevance. Notes on the Future: A Conversation with 2021 Bobi Award Recipient Toi Derricotte, Fighting for the World,presented with NYUs 370 J Project, Conversation with Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver Virtual, Hybrid Narratives: Mary Gaitskill & Sherry Turkle, presented by the Brooklyn Public Library (virtual), Blackout / We Love You, New York!
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Three writers whose acute sense of place is often sharpened by reflections about homewhether one theyve left, one theyve found (sometimes on the way to somewhere else), or ones their writing has brought to life for themselves. Poet, essayist, and critic Hanif Abdurraqib has been celebrated for the lyricism and intimacy of his writing, as well as the piercing clarity of his insights on music, race, and American culture. Moderated by Carolyn Kellogg. The 2022 Festival will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn and virtual for all to enjoy. Stine reads from his newest book (released the week of the Festival) Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story, followed by a book-signing at the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Come celebrate the beauty and magic that can be found on a starry night in New York City at this blockbuster panel as six bestselling and award-winning authorsDhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoondiscuss their novel, Blackout. His newest work, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, is rightfully being lauded as his strongest to date. H.I.P. . Moderated by author Jasmine Guillory (While We Were Dating). Thursday, September 15: Dont miss African Synergy, a literary salon presented by the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College (Skylight Gallery, Bed-Stuy). She is joined in conversation by poet Hafizah Geter to discuss her poetry which examines her life experiences and what it is like to be a Black woman, and Cave Canem and how the community she helped build shaped the future of poetry. Presented by the Center for Fiction and the Poetry Society of America. Moderated by Alana Marie Levinson Labrosse.
True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame at the Astoria Bookshop.
Her new book The Secret to Superhuman Strength, documenting this journey with everyone from Jack LaLanne to Adrienne Rich in the back seat, is a heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times. Buddy Burger is a young alien who escapes his planet only to end up in an even wilder place: Hollywood, California. Do TV strongmen corrupt elections? Friday, September 16: Authors Rivka Galchen and Heidi Julavits discuss the twin topics of Writing and Motherhood and Writing on Motherhood, hosted by Harpers Magazine at Book Culture on Columbus (Manhattan). Before empathy became a way to find connection, it was her strategy for survival. How can African American storytelling traditions help charge and change what we understand about our lives today? Uyghur poetry has flourished for many centuries, its richness reflecting the cosmopolitanism of a culture at the crossroads of Eurasia. Poet, essayist, and critic Hanif Abdurraqib has been celebrated for the lyricism and intimacy of his writing, as well as the piercing clarity of his insights on music, race, and American culture. By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. Poet Toi Derricotte is this years recipient of the BoBi Award, the Brooklyn Book Festivals highest honor. And, of course, what can you do to avoid cliche or sentimentality? . Plus, enjoy our gallery of photos celebrating authors, books and publishers.
That night, Cave Canem celebrates their 20th anniversary at the Weeksville Historical Society and Kaya Press and Kundiman host their first-ever literary pub quiz celebrating writers of color at the Asian American Arts Alliance (Brooklyn)complete with prizes! When critical analysis and even basic facts of American history are under attack, regarding events of four centuries ago or from earlier this year, what can we learn from stories of Black life that have been distorted, immortalized, or lost? Lisa Lucas, publisher of Pantheon Books, will interview Ziggy about his new books and how he became so dedicated to making art for children.
How is writing about intimacy shaped by recent changes in how we hold emotional and physical space? Monday, September 12: See the New York premiere of After Adderall, a movie about what happens when James Franco makes a movie about you, directed by Stephen Elliott, featuring Nick Flynn, Marie Howe, Jerry Stahl, Susan Orlean and Michael C. Hall at Videology Cinema Bar (Brooklyn). Plus, enjoy our gallery of photos celebrating authors, books and publishers. From those intimately affected by violence in Colombian Juan Gabriel Vsquezs Songs for the Flames (translated by Anne McLean), to the sociopolitical horror of Argentine Mariana Enrquezs The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (translated by Megan McDowell),these two leading authors of their generation illuminate the daily realities of the macabre. Moderated by Sarah MacLean (Bombshell). This program is part ofSeeing Into Tomorrow, a major public art project featuring the haiku of Richard Wright. The glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love. Join Uyghur poets, , for a reading and panel discussion of exile, crisis, and resilience in contemporary Uyghur verse. Water has taken over a hot world and few places survive, but a magical place called Garbagetown and a girl full of love. Introduced by author C.J. Do extinct animals forecast the future of the Anthropocene? Its going to be great! In Island Queen, a freed slave rises to entrepreneurial heights and power, while juggling the competing attentions of men in her life. From the refugee camps of Eritrean-Ethiopian author Sulaiman Addonias Silence Is My Mother Tongue to the magical landscapes of British-Jamaican author Leone Rosss Popisho and the gritty French milieux of Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex series (translated by Frank Wynne), characters often redefine themselves through their personal visions of the erotic and taboo. Moderated by Eric Banks, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
The 2022 Festival will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn and virtual for all to enjoy. Moderated by Jamia Wilson (This Book is Feminist). In 2021 alone, he has two brand-new childrens picture books. but sometimes, something magical happens (especially if youre the protagonist of a book). We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Moderated by Natalie Green, National Book Foundation. By continuing, you consent to use of all cookies. Think of it as a week-long literary binge!, For the full schedule of Bookends, please visit www.brooklynbookfestival.org/bookends. 2016 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR *FULL WEEK* OF BOOKEND EVENTS! Groundbreaking Eisner Award-winning graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) discusses her lifelong fascination with fitness crazes, and the search for self-transcendence that she found beneath it, with cartoonist Eric Orner, author of the forthcoming Smahtguy. She is joined in conversation by poet Hafizah Geter to discuss her poetry which examines her life experiences and what it is like to be a Black woman, and Cave Canem and how the community she helped build shaped the future of poetry. Moderated by Idra Novey. Its going to be great! Enjoy our recorded virtual events with popular and emerging authors. These authors combine their personal histories and talents with a determination to illuminate and challenge social inequities lingering from the past.
The 2022 Festival will be in-person in Downtown Brooklyn and virtual for all to enjoy. This collage of four novels, interspersed with a single short story, is a kind of directors cut revealing the personal and societal forces that inform each individual piece of work. These authors discuss how threads of joy, tragedy, and family conflict are woven into their latest novels. Join Uyghur poets Tahir Hamut Izgil and Muyesser Abdelehed Hendan, as well as historian and translator Joshua L. Freeman, for a reading and panel discussion of exile, crisis, and resilience in contemporary Uyghur verse. Moderated by Meghan ORourke, editor in chief of the Yale Review. Meanwhile, the protagonist of Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasams A Passage North, contends with the echoes of the countrys thirty-year civil war. Sign up for our newsletter and stay in the loop with our latest news. Since 2017, the tradition has been critically threatened by Chinas mass internment and cultural genocide of the Uyghur people. Grieving the loss of a loved one can feel like a tangle of contradictions: an experience at once intensely personal and subjective while also deeply, fundamentally human. Henry and Lin will discuss their inspiration from working in Hollywood, how they met, and their writing process for the Alien Superstar series. In Brandon Hobsons The Removed, a fractured family mourns the killing of their teenage son as their annual family bonfire approaches. Wednesday, September 14: In a great event for kids, the all-star audio collection cast will read Grimms Fairy Tales at Bank Street Bookstore (Manhattan) in the late afternoon. A power outage. On this panel Melissa Febos (Girlhood), Jeremy Atherton Lin (Gay Bar: Why We Went Out), Larissa Pham (Pop Song), and Sarah Schulman (Let the Record Show) will discuss the experience of writing about intimacy on the page, how writing can shape our experiences andunderstanding of what intimacy means, and how it has been affected by an era of social distancing.