On the Friday before the Brooklyn Book Festival, Greenlight once again partners with CLMP, as well as some of Brooklyn’s best independent book and magazine publishers, to throw a (virtual) Brooklyn-sized party celebrating the spirit of literary independence in Brooklyn! Twenty local independent presses have selected their top titles of the season, and have contributed questions for an epic Brooklyn Literary Trivia contest—the champion wins a Greenlight tote bag stuffed with a copy of every title! With a soundtrack curated by Akashic Books’ Johnny Temple, drinks demo by One Story’s Hannah Tinti, and more surprises in store, this virtual event hearkens back to the unforgettable packed bookstore parties of years past, for a festive start to Brooklyn Book Festival weekend!
When: October 1 at 7:30 pm Eastern
Where: Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom
Featuring Brooklyn Independent Presses: 53rd State Press, A Public Space, Akashic Books, Black Sun Lit / Vestiges, BOMB Magazine, Circumference, Creature Publishing, Enchanted Lion, Ig Publishing, Litmus Press, Melville House, Nightboat, No Dear, One Story, Poets & Traitors Press, Radix Media, Restless Books, The Song Cave, Turtle Point Press, and Ugly Duckling Presse
Music, Drink Demo, and Literary Trivia (with prizes!)
Co-hosted by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Part of the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends series!
By Priyanka Champaneri
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062529
Publication date: Feb 23, 2021
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062536
Publication date: Apr 12, 2022