Last night, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz hosted a “mingle” at Brooklyn Borough Hall in honor of the upcoming Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place on September 18. Participants will include Kurt Andersen, Brooke Gladstone, John Hodgman, Phillip Lopate, Sigrid Nunez, Christian Parenti, Adrian Tomine, Touré, Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks,Nuruddin Farah, Jonathan Safran Foer, Diana Gabaldon, Amitav Ghosh, Jessica Hagedorn, Pete Hamill, A.M. Homes, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Terry McMillan, Larry McMurtry, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht, Karen Russell, John Sayles, Colson Whitehead, Mary Jo Bang, Timothy Donnelly, and others. The festival will also host a panel featuring Pulitzer Prize recipients from Brooklyn, including Jennifer Egan, Jesse Eisinger, and Jake Bernstein. “Now in its sixth amazing year, the Brooklyn Book Festival is, without question, one of the premier literary destinations in the world,” said Johnny Temple, editor of Akashic Books and the chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council.