Originally published by Publishers Weekly.
The Brooklyn Book Festival was held on October 1 in and around Brooklyn Borough Hall. Nearly 200 vendors set up shop for the day-long sales bonanza, a welcome return after last year’s outdoor sales was canceled due to stormy weather. This year’s weather was in the low 80s, with bright sunshine throughout the day—near perfect.
This was the 18th year of the festival, which opened on September 30 with a gala reception at New York City College of Technology. Each year, the festival presents a Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) award to "an author whose work best exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn." This year's BoBi was awarded to New Yorker staff writer and author Hilton Als (pictured above).
House of Speakeasy's Bookmobile sold books to benefit the New Republic 's Book Ban Van , which plans to deliver banned books to libraries and schools across Florida and Texas.