This year’s Brooklyn Book Festival on September 12 is bigger than ever with two days of “Bookend” events and all-star authors like Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, and Gary Shteyngart. We caught up with Johnny Temple, president of the Brooklyn Literary Council, to talk about Akashic Books, how music and literature connect, and who he’s most excited to see at the festival.
That New Year’s Day of the Brooklyn literary scene, the Brooklyn Book Festival, is fast approaching. On September 12, myriad writers, readers, and other assorted bookfolk will descend once again on Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. In anticipation, we visited with author (most recently of Reset) and “Studio 360” host, Kurt Andersen.
Aryn Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals (Scribner, 2007) was an international bestseller and the winner of many awards. Listen to Aryn read at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights.
Jon Friedman is a writer, comedian and producer living in Brooklyn and currently writing and blogging for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for which he won an Emmy. Watch as he shares rejected Late Night jokes with the crowd, and addresses a letter to his upcoming blind date.
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
Greenlight Books and Feminist Press staffer Natalie Peart recommends her favorite queer literature for summertime reading.
An author’s debut book takes us behind the red curtain of Manhattan’s exclusive nightclubs, sports lovers get their literary fill at Gelf’s Varsity Letters, and Franklin Park brings us a night of Hilarity and Heartbreak — just a few of the book events happening this week in Brooklyn.
