Next Sunday, September 21, is the main day of the week-long Brooklyn Book Festival! Berlinica will have a table in the 1000 area, the number is 132. It is shared with Pink Tree Press and Under the BQE. You will see our signature fleece banner from afar (or so I hope). The festival takes place in Downtown Brooklyn, at Cadman Plaza / Columbus Park, near the 2/3 Borough Hall and the R Court Street subway station, right at the Brooklyn Court House and Borough Hall, from 10 am to 6 pm, rain or shine.
We will be there with all our English-language books, and a handful of German books. Most of them will be sold at half-price! We have a special new edition of our Bruce Springsteen book with glossy paper and color photos, as well as a few advance copies of our newest book, New York and London, by Alfred Kerr, and also, our Berlin Cookbook and our Mark Twain in Berlin book. As always, we will have copies of all our Kurt Tucholsky books, the famed Weimar writer who foresaw the Nazis in the 1920s.
Evidently, there is an app with a code to lead your way. You can get it here.
https://www.bloombergconnects.org
We have a few advanced copies of Alfred Kerr's book about his journey to America at the Festival. Kerr visits the Broadway theaters and Wall Street, and marvels at Times Square and Pennsylvania Station. He talks to the satirist Henry Louis Mencken, the railroad magnate W. Averell Harriman and Adolph Ochs, the publisher of The New York Times. In London, he meets the poet George Bernard Shaw. But the book, written concisely and wittily, is much more than just a travelogue. Kerr is also on a mission to ask for sympathy and help for the fragile Weimar democracy.
New York and London
Author: Alfred Kerr
Translator: Professor Alan Bance
Cover Picture: Berenice Abbott
Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Softcover; 172 pp.
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5’’
ISBN USA: 978-1-935902-64-5
Suggested retail $13.95
Release: 2025
