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Hip, smart and diverse, the Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. Join us, Sunday, September 18, 2016!
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@brooklynbookfestival is fast approaching! Make sure to stop by D+Q Booth #220 on Sunday, September 18th to get our brilliant authors to sign some of your favourite books!

SIGNING SCHEDULE:

11am-1pm: Chester Brown signing

12pm-1pm: Ben Katchor signing

1pm-2pm: Sarah Glidden signing

1:30pm-3:30pm: Adrian Tomine signing

2pm-3pm: Chester Brown signing

3pm-4pm: Ben Katchor signing

3:30pm-4:30pm: Sarah Glidden signing

PROGRAMMING DETAILS:

2:00 pm — Hey, Some Comics Are Still Funny! Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

According to these cartoonists giving birth is a laugh, our modern urban society is laughable, and captioned old Westerns are a joke. And it’s true! Join some of the most surreally hilarious cartoonists working in short (and sometimes longer) form today: Ben Katchor (Cheap Novelties), Emily Flake (Mama Tried) and from the United Kingdom, Glen Baxter (Almost Completely Baxter). Moderated by “Connie to the Wonnie” web cartoonist, Connie Sun.

2:30 pm — Wanderlust and the Search for Meaning Congregation Mt. Sinai, 250 Cadman Plaza W

Novelist and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Russell Banks (Voyager: Travel Writings), cartoonist Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq) and essayist Pico Iyer (The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere) discuss their genre-bending travel books, the effects of landscape on the human psyche, and what we’re really searching for when we travel. Moderated by Timothy J. Houlihan, Provost, St. Francis College.

4:00 pm — Sex is Power   Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

Creators of truly “graphic” graphic books get serious talking about sex. Who is in power in transactional–or taboo–relationships, and how do such stories get ultimately told? Bestselling, cult-favorite Phoebe Gloeckner (Diary of a Teenage Girl, now a major motion picture) and rising star MariNaomi (Turning Japanese) claim their own tales of identity and awakening, while Chester Brown’s (Mary Wept at the Feet of Jesus) provocatively reinterprets biblical sex-workers. Moderated by comedian and radio host Ophira Eisenberg (Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy).

5:00 pm — The Art of War Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St

Compelling comics can be drawn from conflict zones. Journalist Sarah Glidden (Rolling Blackouts), ex-Marine Maximilian Uriarte (The White Donkey), and historical graphic novelist Ethan Young (Nanjing) discuss war stories. Moderated by Josh Neufeld (Flashed and Ad).

cc: @adriantomineprints, @sarahglidden, @bkatchor