Atwood, Rushdie & Carol-Oates at Brooklyn Book Festival from Sept 12th
05-Sep-2016 NEW YORK, Sept 4 — The Brooklyn Book Festival (September 12-18), hosted at the MetroTech Commons in the celebrated borough, will greet distinguished literary names like Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, Chip Kidd, and A.M. Homes. They are amongst the over 200 local and international authors, both emerging and iconic, participating in the 2016 edition.
The Brooklyn Book Festival will run from September 12 through September 18, including a dedicated Children’s Day on September 17 and an outdoor literary marketplace showcasing nearly 200 independent booksellers and publishers. The day of note, however, will be Sunday September 18, featuring a bonanza of panels, readings, and other performances.
The topics will range widely, appealing to every part of the readership spectrum: Masha Gessen will discuss the war on terror, Phoebe Gloeckner will discuss depictions of sex in graphic novels, Touré will discuss Prince and David Bowie, Ralph Nader will discuss the election process, Jessica Valenti will examine women’s evolving expectations in relationships, Ocean Vuong will read poetry.
Panel discussions include pressing contemporary topics and literary tropes alike.
“Social Media and the Future of Criticism”, moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Morris, will discuss the nature of informed opinion in today’s social media age, with former New York Times books and theatre critic Margo Jefferson, The New Yorker music critic Hua Hsu, and New York Times film critic A. O. Scott.
“The Racial Realities of Fiction”, led by The Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell, will moderate between T. Geronimo Johnson (Welcome to Braggsville), Esmeralda Santiago (Conquistadora) and Ali Eteraz (Native Believer) regarding race in both their novels and in contemporary society.
“Security Without Backdoors: The Future of Digital Privacy” studies the questions of safety and the murky legal waters that have yielded ambiguous conclusions about authority and privacy. Fred Kaplan (Dark Territory), security expert Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath), and law scholar Laura K. Donohue (The Future of Foreign Intelligence) will discuss these modern concerns.
Margaret Atwood — the beloved award-winning, bestselling author — will get a dedicated conversation with the editor of Publishers Weekly’s comics section about her work, notably her foray into graphic novels.
