Tag Archives: Brooklyn Book Festival

Audio of the NYRB’s Panel Discussion ‘The Consequences to Come’

Posted on September 30, 2008 by

So, that New York Review of Books panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival?  You can now listen to a podcast of the whole shebang, or they have conveniently chopped it up for you to just play cuts from your favorite … Continue reading →

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Joan Didion Discourses at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Posted on September 15, 2008 by

There is, it seems, a certain type of woman that will always turn up at the chance to hear Joan Didion speak, and I was sandwiched in line between many of them at Sunday’s Brooklyn Book Festival.  They are in … Continue reading →

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Forced Exits

Posted on September 17, 2007 by

The scene: The Brooklyn Book Festival. I’d spent the day with Wingfield, wandering around, checking out the booths set up by various small press publishers and literary magazines, dodging strollers piloted by the hip, literate parents that flocked to the … Continue reading →

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