Bay Area Book Festival Podcast
Bay Area Book Festival
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 22, 2018 • 1h 13min
The Art of Memoir: A Story That Must Be Heard
Memoir writers have the especially challenging task of confronting their own past and creating themselves as a character. In their memoirs, these writers address the U.S. Border Patrol, the experience of Holocaust survivors and growing up mixed-race in America.
Oct 18, 2018 • 1h 9min
Utter Fascination: The Art of the Exceptionally Complex Character
Come hear how writers dream up, and then capture on the page, entirely new people who are exceptionally complicated. With the support of the Norway House Foundation, NORLA - Norwegian Literature Abroad, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, and the Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco.
Oct 15, 2018 • 1h 22min
Smart Activism: History and Hope, with L.A. Kauffman and Rebecca Solnit
One of the Bay Area’s most famous activists talks with a movement insider on the history and future of activism. How have past movements used disruptive tactics to catalyze change? Is there hope in the dark, and how do we act on it? Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design.
Oct 12, 2018 • 1h 1min
Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy
This smart, compassionate woman — who arrived in this country as a near-penniless immigrant student and became one of the founding board members of Salesforce — gives other smart women the tools they need to win. Sponsored by Strong Legacy Planning.
Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 9min
Men and Boys 2018: Cultural and Personal Masculinities
As women across the world make their painful experiences visible, men have begun to grapple with how the masculine identity shapes the power imbalance.
Oct 8, 2018 • 1h 12min
Nina LaCour Up Close and Personal
Nina LaCour’s characters look a lot like her readers. This awardwinning author has devoted her life to young adults: first as a teacher, then as a writer. Her new novel “We Are Okay” deals with trauma, isolation, coping and change.
Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 7min
The Modern Writer’s Practice, Presented by California College of the Arts
Writers shoulder a responsibility as voices for their time. Faculty members from CCA’s MFA in Writing program, spanning travel, memoir, fiction and poetry, interrogate the role of creative practice in the 21st century. Sponsored by the California College of Arts MFA in Writing Program.
Oct 1, 2018 • 1h 13min
Timeless Wisdom: Greg Sarris on Telling Tales and Native American Literary Tradition
Greg Sarris’s book, “How a Mountain Was Made,” mythologizes the Northern California landscape with Native stories — fables with universal resonance and beauty. Sponsored by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.
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.
