Brooklyn Book Festival

Thurston Moore forms band w/ Steve Shelley & MBV's Deb Googe, releasing an LP, touring, reading at BK Book Fest

Thurston Moore at Ornette Coleman tribute in June (more by Greg Cristman) After releasing an album with his post-Sonic Youth band Chelsea Light Moving, Thurston Moore revealed plans for a new solo album coming out on Matador…

Brooklyn Book Festival is here (music events too)

Book fans take note of the Brooklyn Book Fest schedule, with “bookend” events starting today (9/15) and running through Sunday (9/18). One of the many events is a musical evening at Goodbye Blue Monday tonight…

Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend (Rosanne Cash, John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Sarah Silverman, Paul Auster, more)

“Now in its fifth year, the Brooklyn Book Festival is one of the top book festivals in the nation with a hip, huge and free all-star literary lineup…

Brooklyn Book Festival today (Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye & Chuck Klosterman all appearing)

3:00 p.m. Ian MacKaye and Thurston Moore in Conversation. Two of the most influential musicians of the past 20 years–MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) and Moore (Sonic Youth, Mirror/Dash)–discuss the parallel worlds of independent music and book publishing…