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<a href="https://www.baybookfest.org/session/what_unites_us/">“What it Means to Love America” Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel</a>
Mar
9

“What it Means to Love America” Dan Rather on What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel

Information and “the news” have become contested territories, with more people than ever, especially the young, feeling that they just can’t trust what they read, hear and watch. That’s a dangerous situation in the current moment of cultural and political reckoning when Americans need to work together. Times like these are when we’re especially grateful for broadcast journalist Dan Rather.

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Writing, Reading, and Being All Too Gloriously Human: George Saunders with Tobias Wolff on the Storytelling Greats
Jan
15

Writing, Reading, and Being All Too Gloriously Human: George Saunders with Tobias Wolff on the Storytelling Greats

In our once-in-a-lifetime live, virtual event, Saunders teams up with his dear friend and mentor, Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life) — one of Barack Obama’s National Medal of the Arts honorees — to celebrate Saunders’ first book in four years, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

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Berkeley  #Unbound
Oct
3
to Oct 4

Berkeley #Unbound

Just a month before the election, the Bay Area Book Festival presents Berkeley #UNBOUND, an all-day, free, virtual mini-festival. Berkeley #UNBOUND will gather many of the world’s most influential thinkers, writers and trailblazers to offer bold visions in response to the political and social crucible facing our nation.

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