VIDEO: Brooklyn Book Festival Provides Platform for Independent Authors What's The 411TV producer, Ruth J. Morrison, interviewed various authors: Eric R. Watts, Rodney Wilson, Horace Mungin, and Grace Edwards, and artist KC Washington, owner of Noir -a- Go-Go, at the Sixth Annual Brooklyn Book Festival. The annual confab for authors, writers, and artists, held on the plaza at Brooklyn Borough Hall, joins the ranks of the many book festivals in the United States. The Brooklyn Book Festival is an initiative of Brooklyn Borough President's office.