A Fair Grows In Brooklyn

Yech. Who's writing these headlines, anyway? Anyway...

What happens when Howard Zinn and Nicole Krause get together to make babies? Or Jonathan Safran Foer and Russell Simmons? The answer to both of the above is "a Brooklyn book fair" of course. The four parents-to-be are members of the honorary committee of a new fair, projected to open on September 16 in Borough Hall Plaza. The organizers will focus the event on the indigenous peoples of our fair Kings county, everyone from Walt Whitman to Paul Auster. We hope it'll be great, not least because from now on we can always say we were there first.