Bay Area Book Festival forges new paths in light of COVID-19 cancellation
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For Parsons, seeing the literary community come together in this time of strife has been especially gratifying.
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A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities.
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David Thomson discusses cinematic voyeurism for his book ‘Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire’
Thomson noted that being able to intrude upon the lives of others is taboo in real life but is a fundamental aspect of desire in movies.
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David Wallace-Wells, author of ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ argues for role of alarmism in confronting climate change
For two people battling with the label of “alarmism,” moreover, Wallace-Wells and NoiseCat were both nuanced and articulate throughout their conversation.
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Laurie R. King moderates panel of 4 European crime writers at Bay Area Book Festival
When interviewing four high-profile robbers, make sure to put them in the same room, or else they’ll give you four different stories.
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At Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘On Not Mothering,’ talk of freedom, lack of direction
Choosing whether or not to have children, the panelists noted, is one of the most consequential decisions a woman has to make.
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Bay Area Book Festival honors local powerhouse at ‘Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Tribute’
On March 24 of this year, he turned 100 years old — an event that warranted celebration all around the world, including a birthday party at City Lights.
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Poets discuss future of artistic queerness at Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘Queer Poetics’
“Each poet sitting next to me here is considering queer pasts, writing from the present afterlives of colonial expansion … and plotting the queer future.”
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Bay Area Book Festival prepares to blow out 5 birthday candles
The festival will celebrate its fifth year on May 4 and 5 in Downtown Berkeley, its home since the beginning.
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Bay Area Book Festival to highlight socially conscious comic books
Ultimately, with comic book culture having entered the mainstream, it is worth remembering that comic books have always been rooted in sociopolitical consciousness.
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