The Brooklyn Book Festival, set for Sept. 18, is better than ever. Here’s a full list of confirmed participants:
NON-FICTION
Kurt Andersen
Amy Chua
Brooke Gladstone
John Hodgman
Phillip Lopate
Sigrid Nunez
Christian Parenti
Jennifer Pozner
David Rakoff
Jeremy Scahill
Adrian Tomine
Touré
Katrina vanden Heuvel
FICTION
Dorothy Allison
Russell Banks
Eoin Colfer
Jennifer Egan
Nuruddin Farah
Jonathan Safran Foer
Diana Gabaldon
Amitav Ghosh
Jessica Hagedorn
Pete Hamill
A.M. Homes
Nicole Krauss
Jhumpa Lahiri
Terry McMillan
Larry McMurtry
Walter Mosley
Joyce Carol Oates
Téa Obreht
Karen Russell (pictured)
John Sayles
Craig Thompson
Colson Whitehead
POETRY
Mary Jo Bang
Timothy Donnelly
Jean Valentine
CHILDREN
Bryan Collier
Sam McBratney
Mo Willems
YOUTH
Judy Blundell
Kate Brian
Cory Doctorow
T.R. Simon and Victoria Bond
Rachel Hawkins
Jon Scieszka
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jacqueline Woodson