Bay Area Book Festival Podcast
Between audio books? Curious about the writers themselves? Listen to full-length sessions from the Bay Area Book Festival, where readers and writers meet each year in Berkeley, CA, to engage with their favorite authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, chefs, and activists, to discuss writing, race, love, mystery, and more.
Latest episodes
Sep 28, 2018 • 1h 2min
Women & Speculative Fiction: In the Footsteps of Atwood, Butler, and Le Guin
A new generation of female authors holds in their hands the future of speculative fiction. With the support of Zoetic Press, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco.
Sep 28, 2018 • 1h 9min
Brenda Hillman and Geoffrey G. O’Brien: A Conversation
What is the role of creative political resistance in a time of ascendant fascism? From the elegy to the love poem, from the individual to the collective, these poets will explore how words give us strength.
Sep 24, 2018 • 1h 13min
Race and Racism in America
These authors — an eminent historian, an attorney and critical race scholar and a mixed-race lawyer — explore race and the deep origins and expressions of racism in this country.
Sep 21, 2018 • 1h 14min
Off the Map: Traveling, Self, and Other
The best travel writing is about exploration of “the other” and an embrace of this new terrain into self and one’s understanding of the greater world. These writers explore the concept of “place” from very different perspectives.
Sep 17, 2018 • 1h 8min
Jabberwalking with Juan Felipe Herrera
This festival favorite and former U.S. Poet Laureate will teach you everything he knows about being a poet on the move. While his new book is technically for kids, anyone can learn to jabberwalk! With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.
Sep 14, 2018 • 1h 15min
Income Inequality: A World Gone Mad, Mean and Immoral
Disparity in wages and opportunity between the rich and the rest of us has grown rapidly in the U.S.; what are the causes and consequences? With support from the Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation.
Sep 10, 2018 • 1h 18min
Viv Albertine, Formerly of The Slits, Sits Down with Greil Marcus
Post punk rocker (formerly of the feminist cult band The Slits) comes to us from the UK to confront questions of feminism, family and inevitable death with her trademark raw, intimate, vulnerable style. Legendary rock critic Greil Marcus interviews.
Sep 7, 2018 • 1h 9min
Translating Trauma
These writers showcase the art of writing trauma — one focusing on Native women and the other inspired by her own experience as a survivor of assault. With the support of the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley.
Sep 3, 2018 • 1h 9min
Native Voices Changing the Story
These powerful rising voices are breaking new ground in Native literature. The first 100 attendees will receive an excerpt of Orange’s book, set to hit shelves in June. With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley.
Aug 30, 2018 • 1h 17min
Murder and Survival: The Remarkable Story of Indian Rebirth in the Wake of Genocide
Two eminent historians and a tribal chairman discuss the trauma visited upon Native tribes and explore the challenges and opportunities of the current moment, including Native activism. With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.
