Arts & Entertainment Poet Cole Swensen launches ‘Veer’ at City Lights, Book Passage By JL Odom | Bay City News and Exedra Staff | May 14, 2026 The Bay Area native's poems invite readers to reconsider the boundaries between humans and nature.
Arts & Entertainment Vanessa Hua’s ‘Coyoteland’ explores what lurks behind the foliage in the East Bay suburbs By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | May 7, 2026 The isolation of the pandemic spurred Hua to investigate what she calls “the loneliness epidemic.”
Arts & Entertainment Local Lit | Top tips for May By Lou Fancher | May 5, 2026 Ayelet Waldman; Margaret Juhae Lee, Vanessa Hua; poetry workshops with Ray Hsu; and the Bay Area Book Festival on tap this month.
Arts & Entertainment Hooked on Books: Going literary in letter form is a well-traveled road By Sue Gilmore, Bay City News | April 30, 2026 Sue Gilmore of Local News Matters traces the history of the epistolary novel from 1740 to today's bestseller "The Correspondent."
Arts & Entertainment May 2026 author events across the Bay Area By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | April 29, 2026 Plus: The 12th Bay Area Book Festival featuring hundreds of authors is happening in downtown Berkeley on May 29-31.
Arts & Entertainment Pro runner Sara Hall shares memoir ‘For the Love of the Grind’ in SF By JL Odom | Bay City News | April 27, 2026 The book’s title nods to the hard work and discipline that go into training and racing.
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New books by NorCal authors in March and April 2026 By Linda Lenhoff | Bay City News | April 3, 2026 A sampling of new titles with local themes or released by local writers.
Books Local Lit | April: Top tips for book lovers By Lou Fancher | March 31, 2026 Kate Schatz and Tracy Clark-Flory on motherhood; Dani Burlison on living in CA fire country; and Carvell Wallace's new memoir -- all on tap this month.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Bridget’s Gambit’ a remarkable story of a pioneering California businesswoman By Leslie Katz | Bay City News | March 8, 2026 East Bay readers also will be intrigued by details of the family’s move to what is now Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment Alameda’s Kate Schatz examines women’s reproductive rights in the 1960s in new novel By Linda Lenhoff, Bay City News | March 4, 2026 Schatz is known for her nonfiction “Rad Women” books and “Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book,” written with W. Kamau Bell.