Author Jhumpa Lahiriwas was honored with a Bobi Award today at the 6th Annual Brooklyn Book Festival, for a body of work that exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn and has had a broad impact on the field of literature.
This year’s 5th annual Book Festival at Borough Hall was a hit once again, despite the rainy weather, and we were fortunate enough to catch a lot of great authors. Watch our video for a taste of the fest.
Elizabeth Streb is a special force. She has jumped through glass, set herself on fire and has undertaken the equally dangerous feat of writing a book, Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero, published by the Feminist Press in 2010. Owner of the performance company Streb and the S.L.A.M (Streb Lab for Action Mechanics) studio in Williamsburg, Streb will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.
On the eve of Greenlight Bookstore’s one year anniversary – actually next month – Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting, the Fort Greene duo who founded the shop, are also set to ring in their first year at the Brooklyn Book Festival. On Friday from 7:30-9PM they’ll host one of the festival’s bookend events, The Brooklyn Indie Party, featuring locals like Melville House and Akashic’s own Johnny Temple, the night’s resident DJ along with music writer Dave Tompkins. We caught up with Jessica to talk birthdays and books.
Fashion Week in Manhattan, a pennant race in the Bronx, apples and honey in the break room: fall in New York is manifest once again. But for the bookish across the five boroughs, the city’s true autumnal rite arrives this Sunday, September 12: the annual bibli-orgy at Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Intelligent, wry and hilarious writing make Kate Christensen a serious wordsmith and a PEN/Faulkner fiction award winner. Her titles include Trouble (Doubleday, 2009), The Great Man (Doubleday 2007), and The Epicure’s Lament (Anchor, 2005). Her characters, often set in Brooklyn, are fun to read and incredibly believable; her human portrayals of gay and lesbian characters is also a plus. She will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival on the Me…In The World panel.
T Cooper’s The Beaufort Diaries, released by Melville House in July, reads more like a grown-up picture book than a graphic novel. Cooper will appear at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival, on a panel titled How Things Shake Out.
