Judy Blume will appear at a special event on June 6 within the Bay Area Book Festival. Photo: courtesy Judy Blume Are you there, God? It’s her, Judy Blume — author of the classic Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret and 27 other books. She’s also an outspoken leader against censorship and one of […]

Bay Area Book Festival
Over the weekend of April 28-29, 2018, the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. Whether you’re a fan of science fiction or history, of fiction or memoir, of poetry or food writing, of children’s literature or science, come experience one of the best book festivals on the planet.
At first Bay Area Book Festival, a temple made of books
A rendition of the Lacuna installation to be built around the dormant fountain foundation in Berkeley’s Civic Center Park as a centerpiece of the inaugural Bay Area Book Festival on June 6-7, 2015. Image: FLUX Berkeley, it’s been said, is a book town. But never before has it had an actual temple made of books. Rising in […]