PRESS ROOM ARCHIVE
Click through the tabs below to access press coverage about the Festival (by year)
- April 29, 2025: SF Gate: May 2025 Author Events and Festivals
- May 7, 2025: San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Book Festival is ‘changing the narrative’ this year. Here’s how
- May 10, 2025: MSN: Bay Area Book Festival
- May 14, 2025: Ronnie’s Awesome List: Family Day Highlight
- May 14, 2025: East Bay Times (syndicated to Bay Area News Group): Bay Area Book Festival coming back to downtown Berkeley for 11th year
- May 16, 2025: Diablo Magazine: May Hit List
- May 18, 2025: 48 Hills: Bay Area Book Festival turns to the power of the page
- May 22, 2025: San Francisco Chronicle: Summer 2025: The best family-friendly arts events in the Bay Area
- May 22, 2025: San Francisco Chronicle: Don’t miss these icons coming to the Bay Area this summer
- May 23, 2025: 7×7:28 Fun Things to Do This Week (5.26.25)
- May 24, 2025: Bay City News ( syndicated to SF Gate): Authors, Readers To Converge At 11Th Bay Area Book Festival In Berkeley
- May 25, 2025: SFist: Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party
- May 25, 2025: Press Reader: Family Fun Zone
- May 25, 2025: KPFA: J.K. Fowler: The 11th Annual Bay Area Book Festival
- May 27, 2025: Funcheap SF: Funcheap’s SF 5/27/25 newsletter
- May 27, 2025: Tri-City Voice: Bay Area Book Festival changes the narrative
- May 27, 2025: The Oaklandside: 2025 Bay Area Book Festival offers inspiration and empowerment in overwhelming times
- May 28, 2025: Berkeleyside: 2025 Bay Area Book Festival offers inspiration and empowerment in overwhelming times
- May 28, 2025: KQED: What’s New at This Year’s Bay Area Book Festival
- May 28, 2025: Marin Independent Journal: The Bay Area Book Festival takes over Berkeley on May 31-June 1
- May 28, 2025: {510} Families: Fu
n Things to Do in the East Bay this Weekend - May 28, 2025: Mommy Poppins: Fun Things To Do in SF This Weekend
- An interview with Maysa Odeh, on KPFA’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa Forum
- May 28, 2025: Bay Area Reporter: Going Out, May 29-June 7, 2025 arts & nightlife events
- May 29, 2025: Axios: Weekend events in the Bay Area: Block parties, book fair and more
- May 29, 2025: 7 awesome Bay Area things to do this weekend, May 30-June 1
- May 29, 2025: KPFA: J.K. Fowler/The Bay Area Book Festival – Joan Baez
- May 31, 2025: Wanda’s Picks: Interview with Sharon & Russel Shoatz
- June 1, 2025: CBSNews: Bay Area Book Fest holds Bookworm Block Party for second day in Berkeley
- June 1, 2025: KPIX| CBS News Berkeley: Bay Area Book Festival’s executive director talks about event’s theme for 2025
- June 2, 2025: Publishers Weekly: Bay Area Book Festival Draws Book Lovers to Berkeley
- April 9, 2024: San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Book Festival Announces 2024 Lineup
- April 30, 2024: Piedmont Exedra: Local Lit | May’s top tips for book lovers
- April 30, 2024: Berkeleyside: Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley for its 10th anniversary
- May 1, 2024: East Bay Times: Local News – In brief
- May 2, 2024: Edible East Bay: Bay Area Book Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary
- May 2, 2024: KPFA Bookwaves: Interview with Joan Baez
- May 15, 2024: Latinitas Magazine: Interview with Bay Area Book Festival Latina Author Dani Trujillo
- May 15, 2024: Berkeley High Jacket: Berkeley Public Library hosts annual Bay Area Book Festival
- May 20, 2024: East Bay Times: 30+ festivals, fairs and things to do in the Bay Area this summer
- May 23, 2024: Bay City News: Bay Area Book Festival offers powerhouse writers, thinkers on 10th anniversary
- May 24, 2024: Berkeleyside: What to Expect at the 10th Bay Area Book Festival
- May 26, 2024: KPFA Bookwaves: Interview with Aya deLeon, Interim Program Director of the Bay Area Book Festival
- May 29, 2024: Latinas Magazine: Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- May 29, 2024: Bay Area Reporter: Going Out, May 30-June 7, 2024 – arts & nightlife events
- May 30: Tri-City-Voice: Joan Baez and Amy Tan to appear at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley
- May 31, 2024: 48 Hills: Arts Forecast
- June 3, 2024: India Currents: Writers, Book Lovers Converge At The Bay Area Book Festival ‘24
Youth Program Press Release 2023
Adult Program Press Release 2023
- May 18, 2023: Books, brews, Baez: The Daily Californian: 2023 Bay Area Book Fest champions counterculture, change
- May 4, 2023: Berkeleyside: Picture book authors aim to expand kids’ palates, healthy eating at Bay Area Book Festival, May 6
- May 3, 2023: Local News Matters: International guests join local literary community for Berkeley’s Bay Area Book Festival
- May 3, 2023: 48hills: From ‘Vagina Monologues’ to ‘Reckoning,’ V still fights for women’s voices and dreams
- May 1, 2023: Local News Matters: Gripping history about a slave couple’s escape among Bay Area book fest’s plentiful offerings
- May 1, 2023: KQED: Our Picks for the 2023 Bay Area Book Festival
- May 1, 2023: 48hills: Bay Area Book Fest turns the page to a new era—but first, a weekend worth a million words
- May 1, 2023: Nob Hill Gazette: Spotlight on Cherilyn Parsons
- April 29, 2023: 7×7.com: 25 Fun Things To Do This Week
- April 28, 2023: MSN.com: Hooked on Books: What to read before you go—books that prepare you for that place you’ve never been
- April 28, 2023: Berkeleyside: Legendary Oakland librarian Dorothy Lazard appearing at the Bay Area Book Festival
- April 27, 2023: The Bay Area Reporter: Going Out, April 27-May 5, 2023
- April 27, 2023: Bookwaves (KPFA): Interview with Bay Area Book Festival Program Director Norah Piehl
- April 24, 2023: Edible East Bay: Overview of Festival Food Programming
- April 20, 2023: Atherton Living “Bay Area Book Fest Highlight”
- April 9, 2023: The Sunday Show (KPFA): Interview with Adam Hochschild and preview of the Festival
- April 6, 2023: The San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Book Festival founder to step down
- March 27, 2023: Patch: Bay Area Book Festival Set To Return In May
- March 24, 2023: San Francisco Chronicle: Joan Baez, W. Kamau Bell to headline 9th Bay Area Book Festival
- January 24, 2023: Edible East Bay: Crying at H Mart Author Event Almost Sold Out!
- June3, 2022, India Currents: Indian Authors Discuss Race And Identity At The Bay Area Book Festival
- May 19, 2022, Daily Californian: Booked weekend: Bay Area Book Festival 2022 turns new page
- May 6, 2022, Oaklandside: Come listen to Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, food activists, in-person at Bay Area Book Festival
- May 5, 2022, J Weekly: Bay Area Book Fest: Claire Stanford’s debut novel takes on tech-driven obsession with happiness
- May 5, 2022 KQED Do List: The Children of Hip-Hop Take Center Stage at the Bay Area Book Festival
- May 4, 2022 SF Gate/Bay City News: Best Of The Fest – Our Top 5 Picks For This Weekend’S Bay Area Book Festival In Berkeley
- May 3, YubaNet.com: Becoming Story, Writing the Land: Obi Kaufmann and Greg Sarris on California Dreaming – In-Person and Virtual talk at the Bay Area Book Festival, May 7-8
- May 3, East Bay Times: ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ author, daughter to speak in Berkeley
- April 29, Diablo Magazine: Bay Area Book Festival: Off the Page in Berkeley
- April 28, Marin Independent Journal: Sex, happiness, respect: What older women want and deserve, says Marin author
- April 28, Sights & Sounds (KALW radio): Interview with Kira Allen
- Apr 26, the San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area Book Festival is back in Berkeley in person with a whirlwind of authors and events
- April 22, KQED Forum: Danyel Smith on the Black Women Artists Who ‘Shine Bright’ in Pop Music History
- April 21, Edible East Bay: Diet for a Small Planet author at Bay Area Book Festival, May 7 & 8
- Apr 22, AFAR Magazine: 3 Book Festivals Around the Country to Dog-Ear This Spring
- Apr 12, Write minded Podcast: All About Book Festivals, featuring Cherilyn Parsons
- Apr 8, 2022, Bay City News: Bay Area Book Festival announces its return to Downtown Berkeley with a high-profile lineup
- Jan 28, 2022, Mercury News: A worldwide literary festival will star the Bay Area’s Greg Sarris
- Bay City News, April 27: Seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival boasts a star-studded roster
- Marin Independent Journal, April 24: Book Events: Bay Area Book Festival (Orville Schell and Yiyun Li)
- 7X7, April 26: 22 Fun Things to Do This Week (4.26.21)
- Berkeleyside, April 16: After a 40-year writing odyssey, Berkeley’s Orville Schell publishes his first novel
- San Francisco Arts Monthly, April/May 2021: Literary Highlights Curated by Evan Karp (page 8)
- 7X7, March 15: 24 Fun Things to Do This Week (3.15.20)
- Diablo Magazine, March 12: Top Tickets, At-Home Edition: March 11-17
- KRON ON, March 8: INTERVIEW: DAN RATHER
- Nob Hill Gazette, March 2: What To Do This Weekend: Mar 4–7
- Diablo Magazine, February 23-March 3: Virtual Event The Committed: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Betrayal and Belonging
- Writer’s Digest, February 6: Cherilyn Parsons Talks Women Lit, a Program of the Bay Area Book Festival
- Local News Matters, January 14: Best Bets: book events and pandemic performances
- Nob Hill Gazette, January 14: Celebrate being “All Too Gloriously Human” with two epic storytellers
- KQED, January 4: A Russian Lit Course Comes to Life with George Saunders and Tobias Wolff
- Local News Matters, December 9: The perfect, pandemic-proof gift for the woman in your life
- Mercury News, September 24: Interview with Patti Smith for October 8 Women Lit event
- San Francisco Book Review, July 21: What We’re Reading This July Column
- Book Riot, July 21: Virtual Events You Won’t Want to Miss This Summer
- KALW, July 15: Dr. Louise Aronson Wants Us To Redefine Aging
- SF Chronicle Datebook, July 1: Summer offers screen time with acclaimed authors
- Diablo Magazine Dish, July 1: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- Edible East Bay, June 29: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- Berkeleyside Nosh, 25: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- KQED Do List, June 24: The Bay Area Book Festival Asks, Will Restaurants Survive?
- San Francisco Book Review, June 19: What We’re Reading This June Column
- San Francisco Chronicle, June 17: Bay Area political events: Equity in the black community, young adult voting rights
- San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, June 5: Black authors discuss George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and the revolutionary power of poetry
- Pacific Sun/Bohemian, June 5: Join the Conversation With These Timely Online Discussions
- The Sacramento Observer, June 5: Overview of #UNBOUND Festival and highlight of The Witness We Bear
- The Berkeleyside Sit List, June 4: 5 Things You Can Do to Support The Black Community
- KPFA’s Women’s Magazine, June 1: Interview with Carol Anderson
- LA Review of Books: The Online Pivot: California’s Cultural Institutions Adjust to the New Reality
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 23: Coronavirus pandemic intensifies fight over voter access
- Pacific Sun/North Bay Bohemian, May 21: 5 Ways To Stay Connected in the North Bay This Weekend
- San Francisco Book Review, May 21: What We’re Reading This May Column
- Bay Area Reporter, May 19: Bay Area Book Festival’s online author events “Sex, Art and Power” with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
- SF Bay View, May 10: As shelter-in-place extensions continue, the literary arts scene moves online
- Chicago Now, May 10: Chicago Book Events Coming To You
- KQED’s The California Report, May 1: As Economy Stalls, Renters Organize for Relief
- Diablo Magazine, May 1: Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND
- Literary Arts, May 1: Upcoming Literary Events and Connections
- Bookbub.com, May 1: 12 Virtual Book Events You Can Attend from Your Couch in May
- Berkeleyside, The Sit List, May 1: Five things to do while staying largely at home
- Bay City News Service, April 30: Regional: Bay Area Book Festival Goes Virtual With Thought-Provoking Programs (was also syndicated to SF Gate)
- Berkeleyside, April 30: Bay Area Book Festival returns with #UNBOUND, a virtual author conversation series
- Bay Area Newsgroup, April 29:
- *Mercury News: Bay Area Book Fest relaunches with online programs
- *East Bay Times: Bay Area Book Fest relaunches with online programs
- License to Drift, April 29: #UNBOUND By Our New Normal, Bay Area Book Festival Pivots to Virtual
- The Pulitzer Prizes, April 28: Pulitzer Authors Featured at Bay Area Book Festival: #Unbound
- KPFA’s Letters & Politics, April 28: How the Pandemia is Affecting Immigrant Workers in the U.S. & Voting at Home
- SF Chronicle Datebook, April 24: Bay Area Book Festival looks to rebound with #Unbound
- San Francisco Book Review, April 24: The Bay Area Book Festival Monthly: WHAT WE’RE READING
- San Francisco Book Review, April 21: Bay Area Book Festival #Unbound: Chat with Authors from Your Living Room
- Bookriot.com, April 21: Virtual Book Events You Can Attend From Home
- Daily Californian, April 14: Bay Area Book Festival forges new paths in light of COVID-19 cancellation
- SF Chronicle, Bay Area Book Festival canceled in response to coronavirus fears
- Berkeleyside, Berkeley’s Bay Area Book Festival canceled due to coronavirus concerns
- C-SPAN Video, click here for C-SPAN’s coverage of the festival
- Berkeley High Jacket, Book Festival Unites Berkeley Residents
- LitHub, May 15, Stories, social consciousness, and CBD: Jane Ciabattari reports from the Bay Area Book Festival
- KALW, May 2, Interview with Festival Director Cherilyn Parsons (left her job to start book festival now in its fifth year)
- The Stanford Daily, May 10, Reflections from the Bay Area Book Festival
- The Daily Californian, May 9, A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
- The Daily Californian, May 9, At Bay Area Book Festival’s ‘On Not Mothering,’ talk of freedom, lack of direction
- The Daily Californian, May 9, Bay Area Book Festival honors local powerhouse at ‘Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Tribute’
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, ‘8 years ago I was selling candy on the subway:’ chef Kwame Onwuachi on race, James Beard and fame
- KPFA’s Womens Magazine, May 6, Four Non-Moms (and one who is)
- Zeit Online, May 5, Takis Würger und Nora Krug bei US-Buchfestival
- KQED, May 5, PHOTOS: Bay Area Book Festival Brings Together Authors, Publishers and Readers
- Focus.de, May2, Autor Takis Würger bei US-Buchfestival
- KQED Forum, May 2, ‘Uninhabitable Earth’ Explores a Looming Climate Catastrophe
- Berkeleyside, May 2, Have piano, will travel: John Brothers Piano Company plays the Book Festival
- SFGate, May 2,Bay Area Book Festival Set To Return In Downtown Berkeley
- Berkeleyside, May 2, The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley, weekend of May 3-5
- East Bay Times, May 2, 7 super SF Bay Area things to do this weekend, May 3-5
- SFWeekly, May 1, Yes, Moby Touched Donald Trump with His Penis (But There’s So Much More to His Memoir)
- India Current, April 30, Ticket Giveaway for Bay Area Book Festival!
- Datebook, April 29, How to navigate the Bay Area Book Festival
- 510families.com, April 29, 12 children’s authors that will be at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley
- KPFA’s Sunday Show, April 28, Interview with Caitlin Rosenthal
- The Mercury News, April 26, This year’s Bay Area Book Festival has a foodie element, too
- KQED’s The Do List, April 25, Incarceration Takes Center Stage at the Bay Area Book Festival
- Times-Herald, April 25, Author uncovers surprise cultural Napa history
- KPFA, April 25, Bookwaves: The Bay Area Book Festival
- Localnewsmatters.org, April 24, ‘The power of literature’: The Bay Area Book Festival set to return in downtown Berkeley
- Astral projection Radio Hour, April 23, Interview with BABF Program Manager Claire Calderón
- KQED Arts,April 23, How It ‘Fell Apart’: Moby Talks New Memoir, Addiction and Trauma
- KPFA’s “Women’s Magazine”, April 22, Who Gets to Be Seen as an Artist?
- KALW, April 21, In “Bitterroot,” a Native transracial adoptee explores identity, race, and belonging
- The Daily Californian, April 17, Bay Area Book Festival to highlight socially conscious comic books
- The Daily Californian, April 17, Bay Area Book Festival prepares to blow out 5 birthday candles
- Marin Independent Journal, April 6, Author gives voice to Wine Country’s underrepresented people
- Berkeleyside, March 22: Book festival features wide array of authors exploring many of today’s most complex issues
- San Francisco Chronicle, March 14: Bay Area Book Festival Announces Lineup for its Fourth Year
- Berkeleyside, April 11: Bay Area Book Festival is back in Berkeley, April 28-29, for fourth year
- The Daily Californian, April 11: Bay Area Book Festival’s Women Lit hosts author Leïla Slimani at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- The Daily Californian, April 15: ‘An optimistic act’: Charlie Jane Anders talks future of science fiction before Bay Area Book Festival
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 18: Special Edition: Cherilyn Parsons on her most treasured book
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 21: Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley: Literary resistance
- The Daily Californian, April 22: ‘Hippie Food’ author Jonathan Kauffman knows why you eat so much tofu
- KQED, April 22: The Bay Area Book Festival Serves Literature with a Side of Activism
- The Jewish News of Northern California, April 23: Pioneering underground comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has nothing to hide
- KPFA/Radio Wolinsky, April 23: The Bay Area Book Festival 2018: Cherilyn Parsons
- East Bay Express, April 25: The Bay Area Book Festival Returns to Berkeley with Conversations that Go Beyond Literature
- KQED, April 25: A Whole World of Books at Berkeley’s Bay Area Book Fest
- The Daily Californian, April 26: Animating light: Local filmmaker Robert Kondo on ‘The Dam Keeper’
- The Daily Californian, April 27: Literature as travel, travel as transformation: An interview with Pico Iyer
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 27: Authors offer antidotes to democracy’s despair
- The Daily Californian, April 30: Saturday programming of Bay Area Book Festival uplifts marginalized voices
- The Daily Californian, May 1: Sunday programming of Bay Area Book Festival highlights expository power of literature
- The San Francisco Chronicle, May 5: Discussion on male entitlement ends with evidence
- Inflection Point, May 9: (Interview with Festival Speaker) Do haters deserve our compassion? Sally Kohn, Author of “The Opposite of Hate”
- Literary Hub, May 10: The Bay Area Book Festival in Five Acts
- Lit Hub, June 11: Radical Hope: The Bay Area Book Festival in Four Acts
- Los Angeles Times, July 26, “Writing Advice and F.L.O.W.: This week’s picks from the literary Web,” featuring Lit Hub’s video of Bay Area Book Festival writers’ advice: https://youtu.be/MCcHeyGKtYo
- Daily Californian, June 8: Beyond the Book: Celebrating Literary Activism at the Bay Area Book Festival. Plus, a photo essay.
- 7×7, June 2: Bay Area Book Festival Returns This Weekend
- KQED Arts, June 1: Good Old-Fashioned Berkeley Activism, By the Book
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 31: Star presents a new look at 1949 film about a lynching
- Huffington Post Books, May 31: Women Writers Face Major Hurdles, Especially in Bestselling Genres
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 31: ‘Love letters’ in turbulent political times
- Book Riot, May 30: Things to See and Do at the Bay Area Book Festival
- Marin magazine, May 30: Strong Marin Representation at Upcoming Bay Area Book Festival
- Red Tricycle, May 29: A Literary Extravaganza with 10,000 Free Kids Books
- SF Weekly, May 25: Trans-Genre: Geoff Dyer at the Bay Area Book Festival
- East Bay Times, May 24: Bay Area Book Festival a weekend dedicated to all things literary
- San Jose Mercury News, May 16: Bay Area Festivals 2017: Art, wine, cars, culture, and county fairs
- Berkeleyside.com, May 15: In its third year, Bay Area Book Festival to focus on literary activism
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 14: The Bay Area is still a literary haven from the mad digital world
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 17: Bay Area Book Festival to focus on ‘Literary Activism’
- LitHub, June 9, 2016: A Book Festival by the Bay, in Three Acts
- San Francisco Magazine, June 2, 2016: Authors’ Choice: Three Picks for the Bay Area Book Festival from Local Writers
- Oakland Magazine, June 1, 2016: A Bigger, Better Bay Area Book Festival
- East Bay Express, May 31, 2016: Rebecca Solnit on Sense of Place and Writing for Social Change
- SF Gate, May 31, 2016: Cherilyn Parsons risked it all on Bay Area Book Festival
- SF/Arts, May 29, 2016: Bay Area Book Festival
- East Bay Times, May 17, 2016: Berkeley: Bay Area Book Festival plans to pump up the volumes
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2016: Milosz Documentary Highlighted in Literary Film Series
- AFAR, March 31, 2016: 6 Literary Festivals Around the World You Can’t Miss
- San Jose Mercury News, April 5, 2016: Bay Area Festivals: 2016
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2016: Bay Area Book Festival back in Berkeley
- Berkeleyside, April 15, 2016: Bay Area Book Festival announces 2016 schedule
- AAA, April 27, 2016: A Berkeley Demonstration
- Local News Matters, December 9: The perfect, pandemic-proof gift for the woman in your life
- Mercury News, September 24: Interview with Patti Smith for October 8 Women Lit event
- San Francisco Book Review, July 21: What We’re Reading This July Column
- Book Riot, July 21: Virtual Events You Won’t Want to Miss This Summer
- KALW, July 15: Dr. Louise Aronson Wants Us To Redefine Aging
- SF Chronicle Datebook, July 1: Summer offers screen time with acclaimed authors
- Diablo Magazine Dish, July 1: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- Edible East Bay, June 29: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- Berkeleyside Nosh, 25: Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
- KQED Do List, June 24: The Bay Area Book Festival Asks, Will Restaurants Survive?
- San Francisco Book Review, June 19: What We’re Reading This June Column
- San Francisco Chronicle, June 17: Bay Area political events: Equity in the black community, young adult voting rights
- San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, June 5: Black authors discuss George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and the revolutionary power of poetry
- Pacific Sun/Bohemian, June 5: Join the Conversation With These Timely Online Discussions
- The Sacramento Observer, June 5: Overview of #UNBOUND Festival and highlight of The Witness We Bear
- The Berkeleyside Sit List, June 4: 5 Things You Can Do to Support The Black Community
- KPFA’s Women’s Magazine, June 1: Interview with Carol Anderson
- LA Review of Books: The Online Pivot: California’s Cultural Institutions Adjust to the New Reality
- San Francisco Chronicle, May 23: Coronavirus pandemic intensifies fight over voter access
- Pacific Sun/North Bay Bohemian, May 21: 5 Ways To Stay Connected in the North Bay This Weekend
- San Francisco Book Review, May 21: What We’re Reading This May Column
- Bay Area Reporter, May 19: Bay Area Book Festival’s online author events “Sex, Art and Power” with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
- SF Bay View, May 10: As shelter-in-place extensions continue, the literary arts scene moves online
- Chicago Now, May 10: Chicago Book Events Coming To You
- KQED’s The California Report, May 1: As Economy Stalls, Renters Organize for Relief
- Diablo Magazine, May 1: Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND
- Literary Arts, May 1: Upcoming Literary Events and Connections
- Bookbub.com, May 1: 12 Virtual Book Events You Can Attend from Your Couch in May
- Berkeleyside, The Sit List, May 1: Five things to do while staying largely at home
- Bay City News Service, April 30: Regional: Bay Area Book Festival Goes Virtual With Thought-Provoking Programs (was also syndicated to SF Gate)
- Berkeleyside, April 30: Bay Area Book Festival returns with #UNBOUND, a virtual author conversation series
- Bay Area Newsgroup, April 29:
- *Mercury News: Bay Area Book Fest relaunches with online programs
- *East Bay Times: Bay Area Book Fest relaunches with online programs
- License to Drift, April 29: #UNBOUND By Our New Normal, Bay Area Book Festival Pivots to Virtual
- The Pulitzer Prizes, April 28: Pulitzer Authors Featured at Bay Area Book Festival: #Unbound
- KPFA’s Letters & Politics, April 28: How the Pandemia is Affecting Immigrant Workers in the U.S. & Voting at Home
- SF Chronicle Datebook, April 24: Bay Area Book Festival looks to rebound with #Unbound
- San Francisco Book Review, April 24: The Bay Area Book Festival Monthly: WHAT WE’RE READING
- San Francisco Book Review, April 21: Bay Area Book Festival #Unbound: Chat with Authors from Your Living Room
- Bookriot.com, April 21: Virtual Book Events You Can Attend From Home
- Daily Californian, April 14: Bay Area Book Festival forges new paths in light of COVID-19 cancellation
- SF Chronicle, Bay Area Book Festival canceled in response to coronavirus fears
- Berkeleyside, Berkeley’s Bay Area Book Festival canceled due to coronavirus concerns
