Dec 12, 2024
J.K. Fowler of Bay Area Book Festival in conversation with Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books
The arts are widely underfunded at a time when we need meaning and connection more than ever. What can we do as writers, creatives, and community members? Support the Bay Area Book...
Dec 5, 2024
Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Ritu Mukerji, Jason Powell, moderated by Heather Young
Moderated by thriller author Heather Young (The Distant Dead), this panel brings together novelists whose books center elements of crime, whether they’re shelved in mystery or literary fiction. Writer and firefighter Jason Powell’s debut...
Nov 28, 2024
Aida Salazar, Nikki Grimes, Mason Deaver, Dashka Slater, moderated by Mychal Threets
From 2021 to 2023, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts. The bans show no sign of slowing down, and they’re disproportionately aimed at...
Nov 21, 2024
Myriam Gurba and Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Mean, and the recent essay collection, Creep, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award in criticism. Rojas Contreras’s dazzling debut memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, explores her Colombian identity and reckons with the bounds of reality through an oral history...
Nov 14, 2024
Charlie Jane Anders, Aya de León, Sim Kern, Rebecca Roanhorse, moderated by Keya Chatterjee
Climate fiction is a unique way to approach the climate crisis through both real and imagined endings and beginnings. This panel, moderated by author and activist Keya Chatterjee, explores why writers are drawn to climate...