BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 2008 CONFIRMED AUTHORS
Warren Adler: Funny Boys, The War of the Roses, Random Hearts
Jose Eduardo Agualusa: The Book of Chameleons, Creole
Henry Alford: Municipal Bondage, Big Kiss, How to Live
Dorothy Allison: Bastard out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Ron Arons: The Jews of Sing Sing
Kyle Baker: Nat Turner, How to Draw Stupid, The Bakers: Babies & Kittens
Russell Banks: The Reserve, Affliction, Rule of the Bone
Toby Barlow: Sharp Teeth
Jennifer Baumgardner: Abortion and Life, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Moustafa Bayoumi: How Does it Feel to be a Problem?, Being Young and Arab in America, The Edward Said Reader
Mo Beasley: No Good Nigg@ Bluez
Paul Beatty: Slumberland, The White Boy Shuffle, Tuff: A Novel
Alice Bernstein: The People of Clarendon County
Charles Bock: Beautiful Children
Mirko Bonne: Die Republik der Silberfische, Der eiskalte Himmel, Hibiskus Code
Jimmy Breslin: The Good Rat
Breyten Breytenbach: All One Horse, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Return to Paradise
Geoffery Canada: Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
Colin Channer: The Girl With the Golden Shoes, Iron Ballons
Alan Cheuse: To Catch the Lightning, The Fires, The Light Possessed
Susan Choi: A Person of Interest, American Woman, The Foreign Student
Kate Christensen: In the Drink, Jeremy Thrane, and The Epicure's Lament
Melissa Clark: The Skinny
Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Beautiful Struggle
Jerry Craft: Mama’s Boyz
Gabriel Cohen: Red Hook, The Graving Dock, and Boombox
Mark Danner: Torture and Truth, The Secret Way to War, The Road to Illegitimacy
Frank Delaney: Ireland, Tipperary, Simple Courage
Stacey D’Erasmo: Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below
Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Where I Was From
The Waiter (Steve Dublanica): Waiter Rant
Ronald Dworkin: The Supreme Court Phalanx, Is Democracy Possible Here?, Justice in Robes
Nathan Englander: The Ministry of Special Cases, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Rachel Fershleiser: Not Quite What I Was Planning: 6 Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Isaac Fingerer: Adults Only: Trendsetting Spirituality for the 21st Century
Nick Flynn: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Blind Huber, Some Ether
Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Discomfort Zone
David Frum: Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
Paula Fox: The Coldest Winter, Borrowed Finery, Desperate Characters
Rivka Galchen: Atmospheric Disturbances
Alexander Genis: Red Bread, Russian Postmodernism, Dovlatov and Environs
Dagoberto Gilb: The Flowers, Woodcuts of Women, The Magic of Blood
Ben Greenman: A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both, Superbad, Superworse
Robert Greenman:
Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor Planets
Phillipe Grimbert: Memory, La Petite Robe de Paul, Chantons sous la psy
Paul Guest: The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, Notes for my Body Double, upcoming My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge
Jessica Hagedorn: Dogeaters, The Gangster of Love, Dream Jungle
Pete Hamill: North River, Flesh and Blood, Forever
Theodore Hamm: Rebel and a Cause, New Blue Media
Kathryn Harrison: While They Slept, Envy, The Kiss
Matthea Harvey: Sad Little Breathing Machine, Pity the Bathtub its Forced Embrace of Human Form, Modern Life
Joanna Hershon: The German Bride, Swimming, The Outside of August
Paul Holdengräber (New York Public Library)
A.M. Homes: The Mistress’s Daughter, This Book Will Save Your Life
Pico Iyer: The Open Road, The Lady and the Monk, Sun After Dark
Steven Jenkins: Cheese Primer, The Food Life
Nina Katchadourian (Musician)
Porochista Khakpour: Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Josh Kilmer-Purcell: Candy Everybody Wants, I Am Not Myself These Days
Chuck Klosterman: Downtown Owl, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself to Live
Lily Koppel: The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal.
Pavel Lembersky: A Unique Space, City of Vanishing Spaces, River #7
Jonathan Lethem: Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, You Don’t Love Me Yet
Tao Lin: Eeeee Eee Eeee, You are a Little Bit Happier than I am, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Bud Livingston: President Lincoln’s Third Largest City
Phillip Lopate: Two Marriages, The Rug Merchant, Being With Children
John R. MacArthur: Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington and the Subversion of American Democracy
Ian MacKaye (Musician): Dischord Records
John Manbeck: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Film, Brooklyn: Historically Speaking
Alice Mattison: Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, In Case We’re Separated, The Book Borrower
Patrick McGrath: Trauma, Port Mungo, Dr Haggard’s Disease and Asylum
Terry McMillan: Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Interruption of Everything
Joe Meno: The Boy Detective Fails, Hairstyles of the Damned, Demons in the Spring
Sarah Mlynowski: Bars & Broomsticks, Spells and Sleeping Bags, Milkrun
Kenny Moore: The CEO and the Monk
Thurston Moore: Mix Tape, Alabama Wildman, Nice War
Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress, Blonde Faith, This Year You Write Your Novel
Eileen Myles: Sorry Tree, Cool for You, Chelsea Girls
Fae Myenne Ng: Bone, Steer Toward Rock
Jay Neugeboren: 1940, Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival, The Stolen Jew
Arthur Nersesian: The Swing Voter of Staten Island, The Sacrificial Circumcision of the Bronx, Chinese Takeout
Patrice Nganang: Dog Days, elobi, L'Invention du beau regard
Elizabeth Nunez: Prospero's Daughter, Grace, Discretion
D. Nurkse: The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, The Fall
Patricia O’Brien: Harriet and Isabella, The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Lousia May Alcott and Clara Burton
Joseph O’Neill: Netherland
Ed Park: Personal Days
José Luis Peixoto: The Implacable Order of Things
George Pelecanos: The Turnaround, The Night Gardner, Hard Revolution
Arthur Phillips: Prague, The Egyptologist, Angelica
Darryl Pinckney: Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature, High Cotton
Katha Pollitt: Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, Reasonable Creatures, Virginity or Death!
Kevin Powell: No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New and Selected Poems, Someday We’ll All Be Free
Richard Price: Lush Life, Freedomland, Clockers
David Rakoff: Fraud, Don’t Get Too Comfortable
Aaron Raskin: The Rabbi and the CEO
Juan de Recacoechea: American Visa
Elizabeth Reddin: The Hot Garment of Love
John Reed: All the World’s a Grave, The Whole, Snowball’s Chance
Nathaniel Rich: The Mayor’s Tongue
Simon Rich: Free Range Chickens, Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Steven Rinella: The Scavanger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine
Cristy C. Road: Indestructible, Bad Habits
Carl Hancock Rux: Asphalt
Linda Sanchez: Dream in Color
Loretta Sanchez: Dream in Color
Esmeralda Santiago: When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, América’s Dream
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: When Skateboard Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, State by State
Lore Segal: Shakespeare’s Kitchen, Her First American, Other People’s Houses
Ken Siegelman: City Souls, Through Global Currents, Urbania
Amy Shearn: How Far is the Ocean From Here
Robert Silvers: The Consequences to Come
Esther K. Smith: How to Make Books, Magic Books & Paper Toys, The Paper Bride
Larry Smith: Not Quite What I Was Planning: 6 Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
Patricia Smith: Teahouse of the Almighty, Close to Death
Ian Randal Strock: The Presidential Book of Lists
Manil Suri: The Age of Shiva, The Death of Vishnu
Paco I Taibo II: Pancho Villa, Frontera Dreams
Marina Temkina: Canto Immigranto, Kalancha, In Reverse
Hannah Tinti: The Good Thief, Animal Crackers
Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings, New York Sketches 2004, Summer Blond
Paul Tough: Whatever It Takes
Sandra Tsing Loh: A Year in Van Nuys, Mother on Fire: A True Mother%#$@ Story About Parenting, Mr. Loh’s Not Afraid to be Naked
Nikki Turner: Black Widow
Linn Ullmann: Before You Sleep, Stella Descending, Grace
Binyavanga Wainaina: Discovering Home, Kwani?
Matt Weiland: Names on the Land, State by State, The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup
Jacob Weisberg: The Bush Tragedy, In an Uncertain World, The Bushisms Series
Sean Wilsey: Oh the Glory of it All, State by State (co-editor)
Dirk Wittenborn: Pharmakon, Fierce People
Peter Wortsman: Telegrams of the Soul
John Wray:Canaan’s Tongue
Naomi Wolf: The End of America, The Beauty Myth, Promiscuities
Matvei Yankelevich: Today I Wrote Nothing
Kevin Young: Dear Darkness, For the Confederate Dead, Jelly Roll
Gary Younge: No Place Like Home, Stranger in a Strange Land
Thomas Zweifel: The Rabbi and the CEO, International Organizations: Democracy, Accountability, Power
YOUTH
Holly BlackThe Good Neighbors, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Ironside
Susan Cooper (Newbery Award author) Acting Out
Daniel Kirk, Elf Realm
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted, The Fairest, Ever
David Levithan,Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Boy Meets Boy
Patricia MacLachlan (Newbery Award author), Acting Out
Sarah Mlynowski: How to be Bad, Spells and Sleeping Bags, Bras and Broomsticks
An Na: A Step From Heaven, Wait For Me, The Fold
Alisa Valdes Rodriguez: Haters, Dirty Girls on Top, The Dirty Girls Social Club
Ariel Schrag: Potential, Awkward and Definition, Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age
Paul Volponi: Hurricane Song, Black and White, Rooftop, Rucker Park Setup
Ivan Velez, Jr.Tales of the Closet, Dead High Yearbook
Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girls, It Girl
Brian Wood,DMZ, Demo, The New York Four
Jacqueline Woodson: Feathers, Hush, After Tupac and D Foster
Bil Wright, When the Black Girl Sings
CHILDREN
Grace Chang: Jin Jin the Dragon
Raul Colon: Tomas and the Library Lady, My Mama Had a Dancing Heart, Angela and the Baby Jesus
Nina Crews: Snowball, The Neighborhood Mother Goose, Below
Edward Hemingway: Bump in the Night
Betsy Lewin: So, What’s it Like to Be a Cat? Duck for President, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Ted Lewin: Horse Song, Peppe the Lamp Lighter
John Bemelmans Marciano: Madeline and the Cats of Rome
Chris Myers, Jabborwocky (adapted by), Wings, Jazz
Jane O’Connor: Fancy Nancy
Chris Raschka: Yo! Yes? Charlie Parker Played Be Bop and Five for a Little One
Jon Scieszka: Time Warp Trio, The Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Marilyn Singer: Didi and Daddy on the Promenade, City Lullaby, Shoe Bop!
Mo Willems: Elephant and Piggie Books, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy
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