Get ready for the international literati to descend on the hippest borough: the Brooklyn Book Festival dates have been announced.
The events will be held from Sept. 12 to 18 on the campus of St. Francis College and the nearby Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights.
Children's Day is set for Saturday, Sept. 17 with children's authors, including native New York authors and illustrators like Raúl Colón, Mike Curato, and Rita Williams-Garcia participating.
The festival's biggest day is slated for Sept. 18 though events have not yet been announced. Authors from countries all over the world, including Mexico, Cameroon, Chile, Australia and Sri Lanka will be participating.
Touré, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Pete Hamill and Tyehimba Jess are expected to participate.
According to a press release on the Brooklyn Book Festival's website, this is the largest free literary event in New York City. There will be vendors, panels to discuss literature and opportunities to meet many of the authors.
Here's the list of participating authors announced Friday:
Allison Amend, M.T. Anderson, Anuk Arudpragasam, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Kyle Baker, Imam Baksh, Glen Baxter, Moustafa Bayoumi, Robert Jackson Bennett, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Charles Bock, Libba Bray, Chester Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Ken Bruen, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Tina Chang, Alexander Chee, Desiree Cooper, Imraan Coovadia, Zoraida Cordova, Gregory Cowles, Molly Crabapple, Elizabeth Crane, Lynn Crosbie, Stephanie Danler, Maylis De Kerangal, Mark De Silva, Alexis De Veaux, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Ananda Devi, Susan Daitch, Andre Dubus III, Mitchell Duneier, Sarah Beth Durst, Geoff Dyer, Yasmine El Rashidi, Helen Ellis, Patricia Engel, Álvaro Enrigue, Louisa Ermelino, Ali Eteraz, Emily Flake, Angela Flournoy, Gayle Forman, Helen Garner, Sarah Glidden, Phoebe Gloeckner, Manuel Gonzales, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Maja Haderlap, Tessa Hadley, Pete Hamill, Tom Hart, Adam Haslett, Faith Erin Hicks, A.M. Homes, Ann Hood, Hua Hsu, Pico Iyer, Mitchell S. Jackson, Margo Jefferson, N.K. Jemisin, Tyehimba Jess, Fred Kaplan, Sayed Kashua, Ben Katchor, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Phil Klay, Alexandra Kleeman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brett Fletcher Lauer, Jonathan Lee, J. Robert Lennon, Marjorie Liu, Kekla Magoon, Karen Mahajan, Alexander Maksik, Alex Mar, MariNaomi, Imbolo Mbue, Bernice L. McFadden, Lina Meruane, Sharon Millar, Goldy Moldavsky, Rick Moody, Wesley Morris, Tim Murphy, Okey Ndibe, Josh Neufeld, Ann Neumann, Patrice Nganang, Dorthe Nors, Idra Novey, Masande Ntshanga, Elizabeth Nunez, Tracy O'Neill, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel José Older, Cyril Pedrosa, Amanda Petrusich, Helen Phillips, Darryl Pinckney, Jerry Pinto, Magdaléna Platzová, Sarah Porter, Camille Rankine, Lauren Redniss, Irina Reyn, Gabby Rivera, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Salman Rushdie, Hirsh Sawhney, Kate Scelsa, Bruce Schneier, A.O. Scott, Olive Senior, Rob Sheffield, Steve Sheinkin, Larry Siems, Karin Slaughter, Rob Spillman, Emma Straub, Peter Straub, Michelle Tea, Touré, Rebecca Traister, Tony Tulathimutte, Julia Turshen, Maximillian Uriarte, Jessica Valenti, Cecily von Ziegesar, Ocean Vuong, Teddy Wayne, Kriota Willberg, Sari Wilson, JJ Amaworo Wilson, Ben Winters, Jacqueline Woodson, Ken Wright, Sunil Yapa, Monica Youn, Ethan Young, Manoush Zomorodi
Children’s Day Authors
Sherman Alexie, Gabrielle Balkan, Cassie Beasley, Sam Bosma, Anna Breslaw, Peter Brown, Nick Bruel, Soman Chainani, Ruth Chan, Raúl Colón, Lucy Ruth Cummins, Mike Curato, Ame Dyckman, Joel Christian Gill, Paul Griffin, Ayun Halliday, Michael Hearst, Gordon Korman, Kate Milford, Tim Miller, Il Sung Na, Zachariah Ohora, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Christian Robinson, Isabel Roxas, Sergio Ruzzier, Julia Sarcone-Roach, Bob Shea, Esther K. Smith, Rebecca Stead, James Sturm, Jude Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Elizabeth Zunon
Moderators
Gregory Cowles, Ayun Halliday, Katie Milford, Wesley Morris, Amanda Petrusich, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Ken Wright, Manoush Zomorodi
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