Brooklyn Book Festival | Nonfiction and the Personal Lens: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Imani Perry in Conversation
The Brooklyn Book Festival turns 20 this year! It’s a year to celebrate. Thanks to everyone who has helped and supported us over the years — authors, publishers, volunteers and audiences. We are looking forward to presenting a fantastic Festival this September with emerging and iconic authors from all over Brooklyn and all over the world. Because, as we all know, Brooklyn is the world.
The mission of the Brooklyn Book Festival (BKBF) is to celebrate published literature and nurture a literary cultural community through programming that cultivates and connects readers of diverse ages and backgrounds with local, national and international authors, publishers and booksellers. To this end the Brooklyn Book Festival develops original programming that is hip, smart, diverse, and inclusive and presents free, literary, cultural events at the Brooklyn Book Festival Day & Literary Marketplace, Virtual Festival Day, and the family friendly Children’s Day. Additionally, BKBF presents Bookend events in venues across NYC and on-line, which are overwhelmingly presented free to the public.
Join us for a conversation between two esteemed authors who explore identity, culture, class, and history through a personal lens. In her book Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Imani Perry examines the relationship between the color blue and its presence in Black history. In his book To Save and Destroy: Writing as an Other, Viet Thanh Nguyen contemplates his family’s history leaving Vietnam and what it means to be an outsider. Moderated by Donna Seaman (River of Books: A Life in Reading), Editor-in-Chief, Booklist.