As far as we know, GalleyCat didn’t have any correspondents in the field at yesterday’s Brooklyn Book Festival, so we’ll ask you: Was it fun? Who did you see? What were the most exciting panels? Anybody get any good pictures, like the ones the festival organizers sent us from Kathryn Kirk of Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, and Marty Markowitz chatting for one audience while an even larger crowd of—we’re told—20,000 milled about outside?
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(So why did we skip, you ask? Speaking only for myself, I was busy preparing for “Inventing the Past,” a panel I’ll be moderating tomorrow night at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, where I’ll be talking to José Eduardo Agualusa, Philippe Grimbert, and José Luis Peixoto about how their latest novels deal with the themes of history and memory. It’s co-sponsored by the world-literature-in-translation enthusiasts at Words Without Borders, and it should be a very lively discussion—see you at 6 p.m.?)