Advice from children’s authors, illustrators on nurturing love of reading
[Sponsored] With tips from Cornelia Funke, Dashka Slater, Innosanto Nagara, more.
Over the weekend of April 28-29, 2018, the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. Whether you’re a fan of science fiction or history, of fiction or memoir, of poetry or food writing, of children’s literature or science, come experience one of the best book festivals on the planet.
Female authors are leading the resistance
[Sponsored] See powerhouses Roxane Gay, Lindy West, Ayelet Waldman, Susan Griffin, and more at the Bay Area Book Festival.
The love affair between books and films
[Sponsored] The far-reaching synergy of two mediums is the focus of 'Auteur, Author: Film and Literature,' a collaboration between BAMPFA and the Bay Area Book Festival.
Cooking advice from former Chez Panisse chef Samin Nosrat
[Sponsored] Samin Nosrat’s new bestselling book ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,’ illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, will teach you how to cook anything.
The best way to find hope in uncertain times
[Sponsored] Bay Area author’s new anthology of letters, Radical Hope,’ will help you survive the next four years and beyond.
Can one person hold corporations accountable?
Want your hard-earned dollars to support issues you care about? Here’s a primer from local financial experts (and a Buddhist!)
Meet the writing Hochschilds at Bay Area Book Festival
Rosa Hochschild, granddaughter of authors Adam and Arlie Hochschild, has written 'Possum's Forest.' Meet her, and her grandfather, at the Bay Area Book Festival.
Artificial intelligence is here: who is it going to benefit?
This article is brought to you by the Bay Area Book Festival.
Kenji López-Alt: Understanding ‘why’ in the kitchen
J. Kenji López-Alt, author of 'The Food Lab,' will be speaking on a panel at the Bay Area Book Festival on Saturday June 4.
Outdoor library of 50,000 free books is coming back to Berkeley. (And you can take part.)
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Berkeley’s independent bookstores survive, thrive
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Bay Area Book Festival set to be a literary extravaganza
The Bay Area Book Festival has released its program of 140 keynotes, interviews, panels and stage presentations to take place all day Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7 in downtown Berkeley. The festival promises to be the biggest literary extravaganza the city has ever seen.
An evening with Judy Blume, literary freedom pioneer for children and adults
Are you there, God? It’s her, Judy Blume — author of the classic Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret and 27 other books. She’s also an outspoken leader against censorship and one of America’s most beloved and bestselling authors.
At first Bay Area Book Festival, a temple made of books
Berkeley, it’s been said, is a book town. But never before has it had an actual temple made of books.
