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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Booked weekend: Bay Area Book Festival 2022 turns new page

Illustration of figure reaching for a book before a background of bookshelves and windows overlooking a bridge and water, by Angela Bi
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Booked and busy from May 7 to 8, readers treated themselves and their shelves to this year’s eighth annual Bay Area Book Festival.
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Local Event

Monday, May 10, 2021

Carol Edgarian, Vendela Vida discuss rupture of adolescence at 7th annual Bay Area Book Festival

San Francisco may be the epicenter of girlhood, but it also contains the shadows of inequality. Edgarian shines a light on both sides of her beloved home city, and she doesn’t shy away from confronting human existence in its various complexities. 
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Orville Schell, Yiyun Li transcend pandemics and revolutions through great literature at 7th annual Bay Area Book Festival

One thing was evident from the evening’s discussion. Regimes can be abandoned, nationalities jettisoned, but stories are impossible to leave behind.
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Literature

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

‘The Listening Path’ is celebrated at Bay Area Book Festival booktalk with Julia Cameron, Judy Collins

Along with paying acute attention to sound, Cameron continued to emphasize the significance of a method popularized in her early work — morning and evening pages.
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Literature

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Bay Area Book Festival forges new paths in light of COVID-19 cancellation

For Parsons, seeing the literary community come together in this time of strife has been especially gratifying.
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Literature

Thursday, May 9, 2019
Bookfest panelists and organizers

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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Literature

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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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Literature

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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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Literature

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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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Literature

Thursday, May 9, 2019

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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