A Guide to the Brooklyn Book Festival
What you’re interested in: injustices suffered by veterans, civil rights violations, the ongoing failure of the American Dream, venting, coping strategies.
The panel: America, Disillusioned, with Jezebel founder Anna Holmes, Demon Camp writer Jennifer Percy, and Doctored: The Disillusionment of the American Physician author Sandeep Juahuar talk about the stuff that you’ve wanted to get off your chest about the country failing us and all.
When/Where: 11:00 am Brooklyn Law School Moot Court Room
What you’re intereseted in: feminism, memoir, good books about weddings, funny women, proving Christopher Hitchens wrong whenever possible.
The panel: Swimming Against the Mainstream, with Save the Date author Jen Doll, comedian Jen Kirkman, and author Tanya Selveratnum, author of The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock, will tackle all those perennial questions about the relationship between feminism and parenthood and women having it all or at least most of it, whatever it is.
When/Where: 1:00 pm at St. Francis McArdle at 180 Remsen Street
What you’re interested in: Poetry, dissonance, noise art, Sonic Youth 4ever, Thurston Moor
The panel: Thurston Moore in Conversation With Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman, which is pretty much what it sounds like.
When/where: 2:00 pm at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
What you’re interested in: Bad Feminist, bad feminism, the conflicting ways that women and girls are told how to live, The Empathy Exams
The panel: This Woman’s Work, featuring Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, and Kiese Laymon, moderated by Jennifer Baumgardner of the Feminist Press.
When/where: 2:00 pm at St. Francis College Auditorium
What you’re interested in: Powerhouse writers reading from their work and chatting about it, seeing Paul Auster and Joyce Carol Oates interact.
The panel: Influence of the Real featuring Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Paul Auster talking about the way they shape their fiction.
When/where: 3:30 pm at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church