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The Brooklyn Book Festival is getting underway now

September 17, 2017 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Welcome to the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival, which is just getting underway. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

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Colson Whitehead. Joyce Carol Oates. Jonathan Safran Foer.

Welcome to Book-lyn, one and all.

These authors – and more than 300 others – will wow crowds today at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

The annual literary blow-out is just getting underway. The first author panels convene at 10 a.m.

Throughout the day, tens of thousands of book lovers will attend author panels and readings in Brooklyn Borough Hall, the plaza outside it and nearby venues in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. There are 14 stages in all.

There are also tents outside Brooklyn Borough Hall where festival-goers can shop for books from more than 200 independent booksellers and publishers.

This is the largest free literary event in New York City.

If you are headed to this book lovers’ bonanza and haven’t decided which events to attend, there’s an hour-by-hour list on the festival’s website: www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events

The festival runs until 6 p.m. Check our website throughout the day for additional reporting on the literary lights who are shining today in Brooklyn.