The Brooklyn Book Festival. Photo by Jasmina Tomic
The Brooklyn Book Festival and Brooklyn Literary Council recently revealed the expansive list of writers participating in this year’s Festival Day and Literary Marketplace (Sunday, September 29), Children’s Day (Saturday, September 28), and Virtual Festival Day (Sunday, September 22).
The Festival additionally announced renowned cartoonist Roz Chast as recipient of the 2024 Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) Award, to be presented at the annual award ceremony in September; and unveiled this year’s poster, designed by digital artist and illustrator Bria Benjamin.
Benjamin is a multidisciplinary artist, organizer and cultural worker. Through prose and illustration she interrogates Blackness, gender, labor, and love, the politics of all these subjects mixed and muddled together under capitalism, and the fight to end it. While a Texan at heart, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Benjamin says of the poster, “As a reader, writer, illustrator, lifelong student of history and just overall lover of books, I was so excited to create the artwork for a festival celebrating books, readers and writers. In the artwork, I wanted to show characters who reminded me of the people I see walking around Brooklyn: those deep in a novel on the subway, pulling out a pen to save a resonating line at the cafe, or at home in the sun, with a box to pass on a book or two to the passerby who finds it on the stoop.”
The Brooklyn Book Festival returns in 2024 (September 22–30) with a lineup of international and local authors for adult and young readers. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels are all represented at New York City’s largest free literary festival. Whether online or in person, the Festival’s panel conversations reveal the vitality and breadth of literature today, and its capacity to help us see our…
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