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"Please read this book with me because everybody who reads it gets to enter a meadow where we can dance and die together." Ben Lerner’s Year in Reading.

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Some reading suggestions from Ben Lerner, 2006 National Book Award Poetry Finalist and author of the recent novel 10:04

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National Book Foundation at the Brooklyn Book Festival

The 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival is packed full of terrific events with some of the best authors around. If you’re headed to the festival on Sunday, here’s a schedule featuring writers in the National Book Foundation community.

10:00 AM

“In ______ We Trust”
feat. Fiona Maazel at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

11:00 AM
“21st Century Narrators, Presented by London Review of Books”
feat. Ben Lerner at the North Stage

“The Hilarity of Death and Deadlines”
feat. Roz Chast at the Saint Francis College Auditorium

12:00 PM
“About Africa”
feat. Dinaw Mengestu at the St. Francis MrArdle

“Join the Coversation”
feat. Mary Gordon at the Borough Hall Courtroom

1:00 PM
“Eye of the Beholder”

feat. James McBride at the Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom

“New York, New York”
feat Coe Booth and Rebecca Stead at the Youth Pavilion

“How to Write About a City”
feat. Philip Lopate and Lynn Sharon Schwartz at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

“Poets Laureate Past and Present”
feat. Rita Dove, Marie Howe, and Alice Quinn at the Main Stage

2:00 PM
“That’s Entertainment!”
feat Adele Griffin at the Youth Pavilion

“A Force Unleashed, Presented by the Brooklyn Public Library”
feat. Tiphanie Yanique at the Borough Hall Courtroom

“The Displaced, the Dispossessed, and the Dreamers” featuring Edan Lepucki at the Borough Hall Media Room

“Losing and Finding Yourself: Comics of Heartbreak and Healing” featuring Anya Ulinich at the Brooklyn Historical Society

3:00 PM

“The Looming Past”
feat. Julie Otsuka at the North Stage

“Where I’m Writing From: Hometown Fiction”
feat. Rene Steinke at St. Francis McArdle

“I Love You. The End.”
feat. Ann Brashares at the Youth Pavilion

“New Works: A Poetry Reading”
feat. Lucie Brock Broido at the Brooklyn Historical Society Library

3:30 PM
“Influence of the Real”
Feat. Francine Prose and Joyce Carol Oates at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity Church

4:00 PM
“BKBF Presents James McBride, 2014 BoBi Honoree”
feat. James McBride at the Borough Hall Courtroom

“Darkness on the Edge of Town”
feat. Mitchell S. Jackson at the Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom

“Family and Home”
feat. Tiphanie Yanique at the Borough Hall Media Room

“Brave New World” featuring Evan Osnos at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

5:00 PM
“Online Lives”
feat. Andre Dubus III and Joshua Ferris at the Brooklyn Law School Student Lounge

“Trust Me, Really”
feat. Ben Greenman at the Brooklyn Historical Society Library

“Poetic Visions”
feat. Mark Doty and Craig Teicher at the Brooklyn Historical Society

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National Book Award Finalists Marilynne Robinson and Ben Lerner, and 2013 5 Under 35 Honoree Merritt Tierce are featured in the Huffington Post’s list of the “Best Books for Fall 2014”