Bay Area Book Festival Podcast
1) Short Cuts: Nico Lang
Nico Lang is joining us for an event at Kepler's books on September 9th, 2025. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-narratives-of-america-tickets-1485118843439 Join us for a timel...Show More
2) Narrating the Mother
Join the Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake for an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living. Mer...Show More
3) So Many Stars: A Celebration of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
Join us for an insightful conversation surrounding So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis. In this groundbreaking work, De ...Show More
4) A Memoir for Remembrance
A shape is composed of its outline and the space inside, meaning that the people around us play an integral role in forming who we are. In navigating the questions left behind following tragic loss, t...Show More
5) Wound is the Portal: Healing into the Future and Incantation for Future: Closing Headliner & Portal Closing
This poetry portal explores the wound not as an end, but as a powerful beginning. Join us for a journey where language becomes a site of transformation—where grief, memory, and survival are not just r...Show More
6) Seeking Justice in Historical Fiction
What lengths would you go to to prove your innocence? For Anglo-Indian nurse Sona, it’s following a cryptic note and four paintings that lead her around Europe to uncover details about the complicated...Show More
7) Women, Cyborgs, Revolutionary Petunias, and Other Creatures
This reading celebrates the wild, wired, and the wondrous. Inspired, and the fierce multiplicity of the natural world, this portal brings together five poets whose work transgresses borders—of body, g...Show More
8) In Search of Sanctuary: Stories of Migration, Hardships and Hope
Shining a light on the often invisible and incredibly complex experience of migration, the established scholars of this panel examine migration through human-centered lenses by documenting the difficu...Show More
9) Living Legacies: Native Authors on Memoir and Memory
From the very first contact, Indigenous people have been spoken about more than they have been heard. Early "autobiographies" of Native individuals were often penned by outsiders, distorting the essen...Show More
10) Essay as Form
The essay’s subjective and fragmented nature enables writers to grapple with complexities without the restrictions of systematic, traditional approaches to writing (Theodor W. Adorno, “The Essay as Fo...Show More