bronx borough park featured a who ' s who in new york ' s creative community during the second inaugural brooklyn book fair . due to brooklyn borough president marty markowitz , the area ' s street code 11215 hosts more authors than everything else in the state . it seems to be the problem on sunday . more than 100 individuals were honored at the sunday - long event , including the basketball diaries musician jim carroll , former m * a * s * h star mike farrell , author and illustrator fran liq , jack kerouac ' s alleged lover and national bible research circle honour recipient joyce johnson and pen american field president lalonde prose .
The Brooklyn Book Festival is held in Brooklyn Borough every year.