Brooklyn Book Festival announces 2016 author lineup
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The Brooklyn Book Literary Council and the Brooklyn Book Festival hosted a literary mingle on June 16 at Issue Project Room in Downtown Brooklyn, where they shared the first 180 national and international authors for the 2016 festival, which is in its 11th year.
The author lineup for this September’s festival includes Margaret Atwood, Sherman Alexie, Ken Bruen, Margo Jefferson, Jessica Valenti, Alexander Chee, Faith Erin Hicks, Stephanie Danler, Pete Hamill and Jacqueline Woodson. The festival will run from Sept. 12-18; the main day of the festival, Sept. 18, will feature panels, readings and creative performances across 14 stages.
Johnny Temple, publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books and chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, explained, “Every year we just keep getting better and better.” He feels the Brooklyn Book Festival is the best-curated festival around due to the organization of the programming, the book publishers who work on a voluntary basis and the wide range of authors from all across the globe. “I’m hearing rumors of an author ping pong tournament,” Temple shared with the Eagle.