![]() ![]() As if that weren't enough, starting last night, a series of "bookend" events began in the borough, including "an evening of wine and literary talk" with author Jay McInerney at the Brooklyn Winery PEN American Center's Literary Pub Quiz concerts an independent book publisher party and Community Bookstore's 40th anniversary party tomorrow. ![]() The Festival "proper" takes place this Sunday and features vendor booths and a full schedule of concurrent readings, signings and panels. Only six years old, the Brooklyn Book Festival is already a sterling example of what these fairs have to offer. (For more information on these and other fairs, check out our website listing.) There are also book fairs this fall in Boston, Baltimore, West Hollywood, Minneapolis, Connecticut, Kentucky and Ohio. (September 24-25) the Texas Book Festival, held in Austin October 22-23 and the mother of all book festivals, the Miami Book Fair International, which, marking its 28th anniversary, takes place November 13-20. In the coming weeks, fairs devoted to bringing books, authors and readers together include the National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The opening this weekend of the Brooklyn Book Festival marks the launch of what we at Shelf Awareness think of as the fall book festival season. ![]()
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