Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New books from Bay Area and Northern California authors — May, June 2025 By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | May 29, 2025 The season's featured releases include local authors Isabel Allende, Ilana DeBare, Hana Lee, Kelly Ramsey, and more.
Arts & Entertainment Authors, readers to converge at 11th Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | May 22, 2025 With the theme “Changing the Narrative,” this Book Festival comes to downtown Berkeley on May 31 and June 1, with something for everyone.
Arts & Entertainment Poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra interweaves personal narrative, cultural ties in ‘Mothersalt’ By JL Odom | Bay City News | May 12, 2025 Mia Ayumi Malhotra launches “Mothersalt” at 7 pm May 14 at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Bestselling East Bay author Allison Larkin explores complex families in ‘Home of the American Circus’ By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | May 1, 2025 Allison Larkin appears with authors Renee Swindle and Regina Marler at a conversation presented by Towne Center Books at 11:30 am May 6.
Books Local Lit | May’s top tips for book lovers By Lou Fancher | April 29, 2025 Literary events for adults and kids featuring works by Dave Eggers, Rebecca Solnit, Oakland-based cartoonist Briana Loewinsohn; and more.
Arts & Entertainment May 2025 author events: Isabel Allende, Susanna Kwan, Christopher Moore, Pat Murphy, Aimee Phan, Jemimah Wei and more By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | April 28, 2025 Historical novels, memoirs, science fiction and fantasy by acclaimed and emerging California and visiting writers are on the agenda for May.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Why We Swim’ author Bonnie Tsui explores the richness of muscle in new title By JL Odom | Bay City News | April 21, 2025 The Berkeley author launches ‘On Muscle’ at Green Apple Books in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Fun, astute, San Francisco-set ‘Raise Your Other Right Hand’ pays homage to ‘Thin Man’ By Anita Katz | Bay City News | April 16, 2025 Weiner appears at 6:30 pm April 16 in a launch party at City Lights, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Romance and revolution mix in Winckler’s encounter with Guatemalan guerrilla leader By Paul McHugh | Bay City News | April 13, 2025 Long-time California journalist, Terry Winckler, appears at 7 pm April 24 at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.
Around Town Former PHS educator Rich Kitchens to celebrate second book with April 25 event at the Kingfish By Margo Rosenbaum | April 11, 2025 While the storyline and characters in "Three Man Rule" are fictional, Kitchens writes about a profession and region he knows well.