Joyce Carol Oates, Rosanne Cash, Paul Krugman and Melvin Van Peebles — plus a long list of usual suspects — are the literary luminaries that will fill Borough Hall with their talent at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sept. 12.
Borough President Markowitz released the lineup for his fifth annual festival on Wednesday night, also doling out drinks and snacks to the borough’s literary types at his “literary mingle.”
Festival participants Leonard Lopate, Colson Whitehead, Rachel Resnick, Arthur Nersesian and Chuck Klosterman were seen making the rounds.
Those are just five of the 200 writers who are scheduled to appear, including Jonathan Lethem, Pete Hamill, Philip Lopate, Paul Harding (he won a little award called the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year), and filmmaker Peebles (who, when announced at the mingle, elicited a “whoa” from the crowd).
“This is a great event,” said Klosterman. “The number of top-flight talent in the city is obviously massive. They seem to get everybody every year.”
Rakesh Satyal is also excited about Van Peebles’s appearance; the author and sometime cabaret performer will be performing with him at the event.
“Brooklyn has become such a literary borough,” said Satyal, a Fort Greene resident and author of “Blue Boy,” a coming-of-age comedy about a young Indian boy in Cincinnati. “This is the nexus of the literary world.”
For more on the Brooklyn Book Festival, go to www.brooklynbookfestival.com. The full list of confirmed participants follows:
Nick Abadzis
Dorothy Allison
Steve Almond
Kurt Andersen
Lemon Andersen
Sam Anderson
Jabari Asim
Russell Banks
Sandra Rodriguez Barron
Colin Beavan
Jennifer Belle
Alafair Burke
Joyce Carol Oates
Rosanne Cash
Henry Chang
Lan Samantha Chang
Susan Choi
Kate Christensen
Josh Clover
Michael Connelly
Sloane Crosley
Siddhartha Deb
Jennifer Egan
Stephen Elliott
Martin Espada
Laura Flanders
Nick Flynn
Mary Gaitskill
Cristina Garcia
Feryal Ali Gauhar
Myla Goldberg
Amy Goodman
Jessica Hagedorn
Pete Hamill
Paul Harding
Adam Haslett
Peter Hedges
John Hodgman
Marlon James
Paul Krugman
Anna Lappe
Reif Larsen
Dennis Lehane
Martin Lemelman
Jonathan Lethem
Ada Limon
Sam Lipsyte
Leonard Lopate
Phillip Lopate
Karen Lord
Bernice L. McFadden
Maaza Mengiste
Steven Millhauser
Thurston Moore
Josh Neufeld
Elizabeth Nunez
Sigrid Nunez
Stewart O’Nan
Miyun Park
Benjamin Percy
Jayne Anne Phillips
Katha Pollitt
Francine Prose
Sofia Quintero
Joanna Smith Rakoff
David Rees
Paul Reyes
Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Heather Rogers
Esmeralda Santiago
Rakesh Satyal
Jon Scieszka
Daniel Serrano
Gary Shteyngart
Mona Simpson
Tracey K. Smith
Scott Spencer
Amanda Stern
Peter Straub
Elizabeth Streb
Terese Svoboda
Rebecca Traister
David L. Ulin
Luis Alberto Urrea
Jean Valentine
Melvin Van Peebles
Jess Walter
Robin Wells
Tracy White
Colson Whitehead
Jacqueline Woodson
Xiaoda Xiao
Alia Yunis
CHILDREN AND TEENS
Mike Cavallaro
Brian Floca
E.Lockhart
Adele Griffin
Lauren Oliver
Mitali Perkins
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Chris Raschka
Matthew Reinhart
Sergio Ruzzier
John Rocco
Rebecca Stead
Francisco X. Stork
Jon Scieszka
Laura Toffler-Corrie
