The Brooklyn Book Festival tomorrow (Sunday, Sept.18) offers so many intriguing authors and topics that it will be hard to choose among events going on simultaneously. All are free although for some of them tickets are required. Tickets are given out at booths outside one hour before the event.
At 2 p.m. alone, consider attending only one of these:
“Worlds of Personal” - Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) Joyce Carol Oates (A Widow’s Story, Sourland) and Nina Revoyr (Wingshooter), read from their latest books followed by Q&A. Moderated by Brigid Hughes. St. Francis Auditorium, 180 Remsen St. Tickets Required.
“Drawn from History”- Novelists Esmeralda Santiago (Conquistadora), John Sayles (A Moment in the Sun), Terese Svoboda (Bohemian Girl). Moderated byMarlon James (The Book of Night Women). Borough Hall Courtroom, Joralemon St. Tickets Required
“Dangerous Laughter” - Karen Russell (Swamplandia), Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls), and Jim Shepard (You Think That's Bad) Reading and Q&A introduced by Rob Spillman, editor at Tin House. St. Francis Mcardle Hall, 180 Remsen St.
“Politically Incorrect Parenting” - More laughter! Adam Mansbach (Go the F**k to Sleep), Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Beautiful Struggle and contributor to Rad Dad) and Alice Bradley (Let’s Panic About Babies). Moderated by Jennifer Senior, whose New York Magazine cover story “All Joy No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting,” is the basis for her forthcoming book. St. Francis Screening Room, 180 Remsen St.
“You Say You Want a Revolution?”Music examined by writers. Mark Yarm, (Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge), Marisa Meltzer (Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music) and Marcus Reeves (Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power. Moderated by Will Hermes (Love Goes To Buildings On Fire.) St. Francis Volpe Library, 180 Remsen St.
“Pulitzers Notwithstanding” - Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, winners for their story on Wall Street bankers,and Clifford Levy, New York Times, who wrote on the justice system in Russia, in conversation. Moderated by Anthony Crowell, Brooklyn Public Library Board. Brooklyn Historical Society Library, 128 Pierrepont St.
This will be the sixth year for the Brooklyn Book Festival, which seems to get more ambitious each year.
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