Revolution Then and Now: Four Authors Talk about Radical Change from the 1960s to Today
A quartet of maverick minds will take us on a wild ride of activism, defiance, and hard-won change. Bestselling journalist and historian David Talbot and New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot are known for pulling back the veil on social and political…
Jasmine Guillory: By the Book
Could you use a little romance right about now? New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory’s protagonists are the kind of whip-smart, complicated, hilarious women you’d want to be friends with in real life. Her latest “swoon-worthy”…
Lightfast: An Immersive Sensory Journey with Live Cello, Words, and Images
Step out of the busyness of daily life into a dreamy realm of music, image, light, and words that weave throughout like mist. Lightfast is a multimedia collaboration that explores the micro and macroverse of the natural world, and our human…
New Writing from Ireland
Ireland has been the source of some of the most exhilarating and subversive new fiction in recent years, and these are three of its shining stars. Claire-Louise Bennett made a splash with her debut collection, Pond, and more than delivers on…
The End of Everything: Geoff Dyer and David Thomson on Aging and Other Disasters
Few writers make us laugh–and think–as much as “effortlessly erudite” (The Boston Globe) polymath and self-described “malcontent” Geoff Dyer, whose dizzying scope of knowledge and passion ranges from jazz to photography to cinema…
Nordic Noir
Get a pleasant chill in your bones with these jewels of the noir crown, rife with suspense as sharp as the ice in a fjord. The rights to Camilla Sten’s terrifying and internationally acclaimed The Lost Village have been sold to nineteen territories…
Publishing: Who Calls the Shots?
Publishing might be notoriously resistant to change, but innovative business models, fresh ways of thinking, and new leadership might (finally?) be shifting the course of this crusty old behemoth. How have self-publishing and hybrid publishing…
Collective Book Studio Presents: Mother’s Day
Call up your mom, your grandma, your daughters, and your friends, and make plans to meet up for this heartfelt and funny session about the joys and absurdities of modern motherhood. In Where'd I Go?, Raquel Kelley has created a lift-the-flap…
SOLD OUT: Wander the Coast with Obi Kaufmann
Invigorate your Festival weekend and gain a new vantage on familiar landscapes when you hit the trails with beloved naturalist and poet-painter Obi Kaufmann. During this intimate walking tour through the coastal East Bay hike near Berkeley (meeting…
The Art of Translation
To translate an author’s work—staying faithful to their vision, style, and message, in a language not their own—is to assume an awesome responsibility: one that hasn’t always gotten its just due as an art form. Four of today’s most…