​Shop BEM at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 29!!

​​Join us and hundreds of fellow members of our local and international literary community in downtown Brooklyn this Sunday for a highlight of NYC’s fall cultural calendar. We’ll have lots of wonderful cookbooks, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, YA and kids’ books for sale—including a limited number of early copies of exciting October releases!

​Come shop our collection and check out the Festival’s exciting panels, including Home & Home: A First-Generation Cookbook Conversation featuring Kiano Moju (AfriCali: Recipes from My Jikoni), Sohla El-Waylly, Tu David Phu, and Khushbu Shah, and curated by BEM cofounders and Evan Hanczor of Tables of Contents and Little Egg. Stop by the panel at 12 and our booth before or after — we’d love to say hello and share some of our favorite recent reads with you.

This event is free and open to the public with no registration needed.

​Where to Find Us
​Booth 233 in Columbus Park!

We’ll be located near Center Stage, halfway between the Courthouse and Cadman Plaza West and between Montague and Pierrepont. Check our Instagram on Sunday for a video, or ask a volunteer where to find Booth 233.

​Learn more at brooklynbookfestival.org

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​About the Brooklyn Book Festival

​The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.

​The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers.

​The Brooklyn Book Festival was launched in 2006 as a one-day event to address the need for a free, major literary event that embraced the diverse constituencies of New York City. It has since grown to include 8 days of city-wide Bookend events, its flagship Festival Day with 300 authors and a Literary Marketplace with 250 independent and major publishers, and the BKBF Children’s Day that celebrates childhood reading. The Festival’s credo is “hip, smart and diverse”.

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​More About BEM

​BEM | books & more is a literary destination at the intersection of food and Blackness. Established by two sisters in January 2021 as an online bookstore, BEM is proud to serve as a home for readers, writers, cooks, and eaters passionate about Black cultures in all their diversity. Taking an expansive approach to the nexus of food, literature, and culture, BEM celebrates Black food by bringing works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for readers of all ages into conversation with cookbooks and culinary studies to explore how what feeds us defines us.

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