2011 Brooklyn Book Festival The sixth annual Brooklyn Book Festival will take place today (September 18, 2011) at Borough Hall Plaza, Borough Hall Courtroom, St. Francis Auditorium and The Brooklyn Historical Society. This free event includes readings, discussions, and panels with such literary, comedic and musical luminaries as: Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, Jonathan Safran Foer,…
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2011 New Yorker Festival Schedule Announced (The National, St. Vincent, Zach Galifianakis, David Cronenberg, Chris Colfer, Frank Gehry and More)
2011 New Yorker Festival After a couple fallow years (IMHO), the New Yorker Festival has come back this year with a vengeance. I imagine there will be quite a few hot tickets this year, including the likes of: The National, St. Vincent, Scissor Sisters, Frank Gehry, Nancy Pelosi, The Moth: Tales Out of School 3,…
Jhumpa Lahiri | New Book and Readings
Unaccustomed Earth is a new collection of eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri which comes out on April 1, 2008. Ms. Lahiri will be reading at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on April 1st at 7pm, and then at Symphony Space on April 2nd at 7:30pm.