P&T Knitwear, in conjunction with the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival, is pleased to present The Dark Heart: Thrillers, Killers, and the Art of Obsession! Follow three storytellers down the world’s dark alleyways for a night of international crime. New York Times-bestselling author Flynn Berry conjures double agents, old flames, and the specter of the Irish Troubles in Trust Her; New Immigrant Writing Prize-winner Praveen Herat trails long-lost twins and an anonymous kingpin across continents in Between This World and the Next; and translator Sam Bett brings us a yakuza princess in peril with queer thriller The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani. Moderated by Ed Lin, author of Death Doesn't Forget.
This event is an official 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event.
This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating
Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of the featured event books or any product in our café the night of an event.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Flynn Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Harrow, winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best First Novel; A Double Life, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and Northern Spy, a Reese’s Book Club pick that was named one of the ten best thrillers of 2021 by The New York Times and The Washington Post. The recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and Brown University. Northern Spy is being adapted for film by Netflix.
Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. Working with David Boyd, he co-translated the Mieko Kawakami novels Heaven, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize; All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; and Breasts and Eggs.
Praveen Herat was born in London to Sri Lankan parents and educated at Oxford and the University of East Anglia. He lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for several years, a period that marked him profoundly and prompted his research for what would become his novel, Between This World and the Next. Since 2010, he has lived in Paris.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Ed Lin is a journalist by training and an all-around stand-up kinda guy. He’s the author of the Taipei Night Market series: Ghost Month, Incensed, 99 Ways to Die, and Death Doesn't Forget; his literary debut, Waylaid; and the Robert Chow crime series set in 1970s Manhattan Chinatown: This Is a Bust, Snakes Can’t Run, and One Red Bastard. Lin, who is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Lin lives in New York with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and son.