Leonard Lopate

Come See Leonard at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 10, 2014

Leonard will be hosting a conversation with writers Mary Gordon (Pearl, Reading Jesus, The Liar's Wife) and Emma Straub (Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, The Vacationers) at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21, 12-1 pm, at the Borough Hall Courtroom. Find out more here.

Remember that the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club's September selection is Mary Gordon's novel Pearl. Read it along with us!

And check out another WNYC Brooklyn Book Festival event: Brooklyn Bound: Writing King's County. Four emerging Brooklyn-based writers will discuss their debut works set in Brooklyn with The Takeaway's Mythili Rao. It's at 7 pm, Thursday September 18, at the Brooklyn Museum. Find out more here!

Check out all the Brooklyn Book Festival events here!

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