Archive for the 'Special Events' Category
October 17, 2007
Everyone’s a (Former) Critic
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, three music and arts critics known for their humor discuss what it means to be a critic and the art of writing beyond the review.
This session features popular essayist, memoirist, critic and soon-to-be novelist Chuck Klosterman, Rolling Stone music critic and new memoirist Rob [...]
October 17, 2007
Simmons Clan Makes Brooklyn Book Festival a Family Affair
The Simmons family has taken American culture by storm. At this session from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival they discuss their new books, along with other matters of family and culture. In this unprecedented event, painter/poet Danny Simmons shares the stage with his brother, rap star Joseph “Rev. Run” Simmons (of Run-DMC), and Joseph’s [...]
October 15, 2007
Carter and Markowitz Discuss Politics, Growing Up In NYC
Dominic Carter is a veteran New York City journalist and Senior Political Reporter for NY1 News. Earlier this year, he self-published a memoir entitled No Momma’s Boy.
In this special event from the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival, the tables are turned as Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz gets to ask Carter the questions. In [...]
October 14, 2007
All This Week: BEA Podcasts From The Brooklyn Book Festival
On September 16, 2007 nearly 100 booksellers and thousands of books filled Borough Hall Plaza and Columbus Park in Brooklyn, NY for the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival.
This event also featured a series of dramatic readings, author interviews, and panel discussions. By special arrangement with the Brooklyn Book Festival, we will be [...]
August 8, 2007
Sunday Book and Author Breakfast
As BEA 2007 wound down, the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast brought together a diverse and talented group of authors.
To open, Alice Sebold, author of The Almost Moon, discusses the pressure she felt to follow up the wildly popular The Lovely Bones and reads from her new book. She is joined by [...]
August 5, 2007
Saturday Book and Author Breakfast
This BEA Book and Author Breakfast brings together two of the most popular authors of today with perhaps the most successful documentarian of all-time.
Ken Burns, author (with Geoffrey C. Ward) of The War: An Intimate History, 1941 – 1945, gives us a sneak preview of his book’s companion PBS documentary The War. Lisa See, [...]
July 30, 2007
The Heard Word: BEA’s Audiobook and Author Tea
In recent years, audiobooks have become a hugely successful avenue for authors to bring their works to a time-strapped audience.
Master of Ceremonies and veteran audiobook narrator Oliver Wyman opens this session, hosted by the Audio Publishers Association, with a reading from Richard Brautigan’s novella Trout Fishing in America. Wyman is joined by John [...]
July 9, 2007
Saturday Book and Author Luncheon with Alan Alda
This BEA 2007 Special Event focused on political, cultural and social change. Alan Alda, actor and author of Things I Learned While Talking to Myself was the Master of Ceremonies.
Featured panelists were Valerie Plame Wilson, author of Fair Game, Paul Krugman, author of Conscience of a Liberal, and Russell Simmons, [...]
June 27, 2007
Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach Preview
At BEA, Powell’s Books in partnership with Out of the Book Films, introduced a groundbreaking series of short films about authors. The first in the series, the 28-minute film, “Ian McEwan on Chesil Beach,” was screened on Saturday, June 2. Shot over four days in England and the United States, the film includes interviews [...]
