Virtual Events 2020-2021

Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, and Women Lit, spring 2020

• 5/1/2020, Vote At Home with Amber McReynolds and Jesse Wegman
  Ian Haney Lopez, Amber McReynolds, Jesse Wegman
• 5/3/2020, Shedding Light, Vanquishing Fear: End-of-Life Planning with the Experts
  Sunita Puri, Katy Butler, BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger
• 5/5/2020, Queens of Mystery: Writer to Writer with Meg Gardiner and Rachel Howzell Hall
  Rachel Howzell Hall, Laurie R. King, Meg Gardiner
• 5/7/2020, Unrigging the Rules for the Rising American Electorate: David Daley and Steve Phillips
  Rebecca Nagle, Steve Phillips, David Daley
• 5/10/2020, Sacred and Profane: Debut Novelist Chelsea Bieker on Godshot
  Chelsea Bieker, Brooke Warner
• 5/12/2020, Parenting in a Time of Crisis
  Sarah Jaquette Ray, Dacher Keltner, Madeline Levine, Christine Carter
• 5/14/2020, Courts, COVID-19 & Voter Suppression
  Lala Wu, Alan Hirsch, Richard Hasen, Abdi Soltani
• 5/19/2020, Sex, Art and Power: Writer to Writer with Garth Greenwell and Lidia Yuknavitch
  Keiko Lane, Garth Greenwell, Lidia Yuknavitch
• 5/19/2020, SUPPRESSED: THE FIGHT TO VOTE Screening and Talkback
  Robert Greenwald, John Diaz, Phoebe Einzig-Roth
• 5/26/2020, How to Raise a Reader
  Diana Divecha, Pamela Paul
• 5/28/2020, One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
  Rep. Barbara Lee, Carol Anderson
• 6/2/2020, Coming Together When Things Fall Apart: Giving Voice to Emotional Truth in our Times
  Anthony Doerr, Danielle Evans, Viet Thanh Nguyen, R.O. Kwon
• 6/2/2020, America’s Most Unusual Marriage: Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella
  Monika Bauerlein, Adam Hochschild
• 6/4/2020, Unplugging in a Virtual World: Tiffany Shlain on 24/6
  Tiffany Shlain, Chloe Veltman
• 6/5/2020, The Witness We Bear: Writer to Writer with Jericho Brown and Nikky Finney
  Nikky Finney, Jericho Brown, Ismail Muhammad
• 6/9/2020, International Thrills: #1 Scandinavian Bestseller Lars Kepler
  Lars Kepler, Jesse Kellerman
• 6/16/2020, Strange Hotel: Irish Literary Sensation Eimear McBride
  Eimear McBride, Brooke Warner
• 6/18/2020, A Time for Transformation: Redefining Aging with Louise Aronson
  Louise Aronson, Jeneé Darden
• 6/25/2020, No Place to Shelter: What COVID-19 Reveals About Inequality: A Conversation with Leading Journalists and Activists
  Heather Knight, Joe Wilson, Zach Norris, Conor Dougherty
• 6/30/2020, Ready, Set, Publish with Courtney Maum
  Courtney Maum, Brooke Warner
• 7/2/2020, Food for Thought: Will Restaurants Survive?
  Saru Jayaraman, Alice Waters, Caleb Zigas, Moderated by Davia Nelson
• 7/14/2020, What Comes Naturally: The Science and Soul of Nature Writing
  Obi Kaufmann, John Muir Laws, Emilie Lygren, Josie Iselin
• 7/16/2020, Braving Deep Waters: Female Fearlessness and Friendship with Sue Monk Kidd and Lisa See
  Aimee Phan, Lisa See, Sue Monk Kidd
• 8/26/2020, Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life: What the Secret Social Networks of Fungi Reveal About Nature’s Genius and Being Human
  Michael Pollan, Merlin Sheldrake
• 9/16/2020, Women Lit #UNBOUND: Alexandra Roxo, Carol Queen: Rewrite Your Story: Embracing the Divine Feminine
  Alexandra Roxo, Carol Queen

Berkeley #UNBOUND

A day long virtual celebration of our city.

• 10/3/2020, Politics, Race, and the State of Play in our Nation
  Dacher Keltner, W. Kamau Bell, Steve Kerr
• 10/4/2020, Writing a New World Into Existence: Lessons from Literary Futurism
  Shanthi Sekaran, Annalee Newitz, Aya de Leon, Ishmael Reed
• 10/4/2020, The Radical Necessity of Nonviolence
  Judith Butler, Stephen Best
• 10/4/2020, LIVE! Embracing the Other
  Arlie Hochschild, john a. powell
• 10/4/2020, Food Is Fundamental
  Davia Nelson, Alice Waters, Saru Jayaraman
• 10/4/2020, How the Constitution Can Save Us
  Erwin Chemerinsky, Rep. Barbara Lee
• 10/4/2020, BOLD VISIONS: 1:30 – 2:00pm
  
• 10/4/2020, BOLD VISIONS: 12 – 12:30pm
  
• 10/4/2020, BOLD VISIONS: 3:00 – 3:30pm
  
• 10/4/2020, BOLD VISIONS: 4:30 – 5pm
  

Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, and Women Lit, winter 20-21

• 10/8/2020, Women Lit #UNBOUND: Extraordinary Dreamer: Musical and Literary Icon Patti Smith’s Year of The Monkey
  Patti Smith
• 10/14/2020, Meaning in the Music: A Conversational Duet with Fantastic Negrito and Timbuktu
  Fantastic Negrito, Timbuktu
• 10/21/2020, Women Lit #UNBOUND: Experience Real Change with Mindfulness Teacher Sharon Salzberg
  Sharon Salzberg, Courtney E. Martin
• 10/28/2020, The Last Taboo: How Wealth Changes Everything
  Jennifer Risher, Robin Richards Donohoe
• 11/24/2020, WL #UNBOUND: Poised to Soar: Nature-Writing Sensation Helen Macdonald with Vesper Flights
  Helen Macdonald, Camille T. Dungy
• 1/7/2021, WL #UNBOUND: Racing Towards Wonder with bestselling novelist Jane Smiley
  Jane Smiley, Brooke Warner
• 1/13/2021, The Ties that Bind: Ann Patchett on Family, Fortune, and the Search for Self
  Ann Patchett, Brooke Warner
• 1/15/2021, Writing, Reading, and Being All Too Gloriously Human: George Saunders with Tobias Wolff on the Storytelling Greats
  Tobias Wolff, George Saunders
• 1/27/2021, Create, Connect, and Inspire: Julia Cameron on The Listening Path
  Julia Cameron, Judy Collins

Bay Area Book Festival and LitFest Bergen

Our own episode

• 2/12/2021, Books, magazines, and pirate stores: writing and activism in California and beyond
  Dave Eggers, Vendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Daniel Gumbiner

The rest of the events in the festival. prodiced by literary festivals wordwide!

• 2/12/2021, Buenos Aires: personal journeys
• 2/12/2021, French women writers of today: feminism, identity and madness
• 2/12/2021, From India: The Edict Project: music and meaning for our times
• 2/12/2021, From Jamaica: Fruishon
• 2/12/2021, From Norway: Rediscoveries in life and literature
• 2/12/2021, From United Arab Emirates: Literary fiction – on the edge
• 2/12/2021, Live from Perth/Whadjuk Noongar Boodja
• 2/12/2021, Nigerian literature across generations
• 2/12/2021, Poetry from Kabul
• 2/12/2021, Scottish dispatches: the new generation
• 2/12/2021, Soundtracks & Stanzas: Changing Canada’s Black Future

Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, and Women Lit, spring 2021

• 3/2/2021, The Committed: Viet Thanh Nguyen on Betrayal and Belonging
  Viet Thanh Nguyen, Laila Lalami
• 3/9/2021, “What it Means to Love America”: Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
  Dan Rather, Priya Clemens
• 3/18/2021, Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Following the Joy with LaRayia Gaston
  Jeneé Darden, LaRayia Gaston
• 4/8/2021, Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Secrets and the Search for Self: Alka Joshi on The Henna Artist
  Cherilyn Parsons, Alka Joshi

The 7th Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND

• 5/1/2021, See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
  Jamilah King, Valarie Kaur
• 5/2/2021, When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild
  Orville Schell, Adam Hochschild, Yiyun Li
• 5/2/2021, Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
  Yaa Gyasi, Kazuo Ishiguro
• 5/3/2021, Interior Chinatown, Tinseltown, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
  Charles Yu, Jim Gavin
• 2021-05-04, Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
  Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian
• 5/5/2021, Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
  Annalee Newitz, Nathaniel Rich, Bonnie Tsui
• 5/6/2021, Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart, Casey Gerald
• 5/7/2021, How to Dream the World You Want: Nnedi Okorafor and Jeff VanderMeer on Resistance and Transformation
  Jeff VanderMeer, Nnedi Okorafor, Isabel Yap
• 5/8/2021, There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Mourn, Heal, and Take to the Streets with Former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith and Others
  Ismail Muhammad, Camille T. Dungy, Tracy K. Smith, Reginald Dwayne Betts
• 5/9/2021, Splitting the World Open: An International Roundtable of Dangerous Women Writers
  Avni Doshi, Alia Trabucco Zerán, Maaza Mengiste, Karen M. Phillips
• 5/9/2021, Love, Loss, and Meaning in Life: World-Renowned Therapist Irvin Yalom with Joyce Carol Oates
  Irvin Yalom, Joyce Carol Oates