Brooklyn Book Festival

If you’re in the New York realm and lookin’ for a little something to occupy your Sunday, stroll down to the Brooklyn Book Festival. If you’re anything like me and you can spend hours wandering aimlessly around The Strand or maybe Powell’s — I’m still annoyed that I missed that one while I was in Portland — then this is right up your alley. It will have the requisite thousands of books to peruse that you’d expect at any worthwhile literary event taking place in the big city, but the Brooklyn Book Festival takes it a couple of steps further.

In addition to the millions of words, the festival will feature a poetry slam, a define-a-thon, and a ton of exhibits. And, it gets better: the organizers have gathered some of the top authors we all know and love to show their faces and sign some copies of your favorite books. Dave Eggers anyone? Let’s put it this way, it’s a book festival and they’ve managed to put together enough stuff to fill seven stages. That alone makes it worth checking out, right?