If ever there was a neighborhood Woodstock for e-book followers, it’s the Bay Space E-book Pageant, which in its eleventh 12 months will take over downtown Berkeley for 2 full days of literary reverie.
Although there’s enjoyable available on the 2025 fest the official theme – “Changing the Narrative” – isn’t so joyful, given (waves hand at every little thing). Garrett Felber will speak about political prisoners via the lens of his biography of American prison-rights activist, Martin Sostre. Journalists Zack Beauchamp and Ari Berman will talk about the rise of authoritarianism and what it means for a free press, and financial specialists like Bernadette Atuahene will opine on systemic wealth inequality and corruption within the banking trade.
Saturday is the pageant’s Household Day on the Berkeley Public Library, in partnership with the Social Justice Kids’s E-book Honest, and each nights function literary occasions at leisure venues like The Marsh and Freight & Salvage. There’s a Poetry Stage and a Small Press Alley. Plus, there’s an opportunity you’ll stumble upon your favourite writer milling within the crowd: Amongst this 12 months’s headliners are Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, “bad feminist” Roxane Homosexual and Native American authors Greg Sarris and Jon Hickey.
Particulars: Pageant runs Might 31-June 1 at numerous areas in downtown Berkeley; each free and ticketed occasions, schedule of occasions at https://www.baybookfest.org/2025-festival.
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