This piece, written by Bay Area Book Festival Founder and Director Cherilyn Parsons, original appeared on Ozy.
Every January, I travel to India from California to plunge into a festive literary fray: the Jaipur Literature Festival. JLF…
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As our next Festival draws closer, memories of last year's start to fade. But don't worry, we prepared for this. To make sure the discussions started at the Festival never fizzle out, we have made full-length recordings of some of our most popular…
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On February 15 at 7:30 p.m., Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, and Mother Jones reporter Jamilah King will be in San Francisco to launch our event series with Mother Jones.
Cullors and bandele…
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1. Book-ward facing dog? Yoga poses to make reading more comfortable.
2. A disturbing novel leads investigators to link its author with an unsolved murder.
3. Why authors will always put pen to paper.
4. Your reading slump won't…
"Affections" by Rodrigo Hasbún
From the first page, you can tell you’re in the hands of a master. Set in the 1950s and 60s Bolivian revolution, the novel travels among characters and tells a big story within a short book. Be sure to keep…
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Our full list of Festival authors and speakers will go live mid-March, but to make the wait a bit less daunting, here's one author you won't want to miss in April.
Robert Reich has become a household name as one of today's political commentators…
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Dear Friend of the Festival,
In last month’s newsletter, we asked you why you read. And you — you wonderfully curious, insatiable, driven people — answered that you read, above all else, to expand your minds with new ideas. How…
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Dear Friend of the Festival,
We do it “to live twice,” as Anais Nin wrote. Her paramour Henry Miller recommended it “to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.” Gustave Flaubert called it “a perpetual orgy.” Ian McEwan said…
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Are the next festival’s dates on your calendar yet? April 28-29, 2018!
We’ve gone through some dark times recently in the Bay Area, the skies literally darkening, and so many people have faced devastation. We want to offer some solace…
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Next Festival: April 28-29, 2018!
Hello!
We know you’ve been staring longingly at your 2017 Bay Area Book Festival program since June. We appreciate the love, but we’re here to tell you to snap out of it because we’re back…
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Opinion: Should Authors Write Outside Their Cultural Identity?
Listen up: the Bay Area Book Festival podcast
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele on "When They Call You a Terrorist"
Noteworthy: 10 lit links worth reading
The Fine Print: Here's what we read in January
Speaker spotlight: Robert Reich
Festival Newsletter: December 2017
Festival Newsletter: November 2017
Festival Newsletter: October 2017
Festival Newsletter: September 2017