19 September 2 PM MELLOW PAGES SUMMER VACATION READING The Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY 11206 Join Mellow Pages Summer Vacation @ Silent Barn on September 19th for a blowout Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event, featuring readings from six amazing writers: Jami Attenberg (Saint Mazie, The Middlesteins) Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies) Alice Sola Kim (Tin House & McSweeney's) Sara Novic (Girl at War) Chinelo Okparanta (Under the Udala Trees) Julia Pierpont (Among the Ten Thousand Things) | 20 September 2 PM WAR STORIES Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge 250 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Three authors discuss depicting war through fiction. Mark Doten's The Infernal tells the story of the War on Terror through a variety of voices, from Condoleeza Rice to Mark Zuckerberg. Sara Nović's Girl at War looks at the Yugoslav Wars through the eyes of a young survivor.Christopher Robinson’s War of the Encyclopaedists (co-authored with Gavin Kovite) considers the gap between civilian and military life. Moderated by Maaza Mengiste. |