2016 Brooklyn Book Festival to feature Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates
Brooklyn BookBeat
At a lively soiree at Issue Project Room in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday, the Brooklyn Book Festival (BKBF) and Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council announced the first 180 national and international authors slated for this fall’s 2016 BKBF.
Participating writers include Margaret Atwood, Sherman Alexie, Ken Bruen, Margo Jefferson, Salman Rushdie and Joyce Carol Oates.
This fall’s weeklong run-up to the Sept. 18 event begins the Monday before the festival, with five weeknights of literature-themed “Bookend” programs presented all over New York City. These “Bookends” lead up to a spectacular weekend.