Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

Akashic Books

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Location: Brooklyn Book Festival

There are no upcoming events for Brooklyn Book Festival.

Past Events

Kevin Powell – Brooklyn Book Festival (Main Stage)

A Half Century of Hip-Hop: This summer’s grand celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary was beautiful and affirming for longtime fans and practitioners of this perennially maligned and underestimated genre/subculture. Now that the landmark events have passed, what do we make of not just the story of hip-hop but its evolving place in the public imagination? […]

Joe Meno, M. Chris Fabricant, Elizabeth Nunez, and Don Lee at the Brooklyn Book Festival—Brooklyn, New York.

Noon. Struggling to Survive: featuring Joe Meno, Weike Wang, & Ernesto Mestre-Reed; moderated by MJ Franklin. How do we persevere in the face of disaster? In Weike Wang’s Joan is Okay, a young ICU doctor faces sudden upheaval in her family just as the coronavirus pandemic throws the world into disarray. A man searches for […]