Bay Area State superintendent sets goal to get all California third graders reading by 2026 By Ali Tadayon | EdSource | September 22, 2021 State officials eye legislation aimed at addressing the longstanding issue of struggling early readers.
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – September 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News Foundation | September 9, 2021 New fiction, non-fiction, and children's literature, plus what's new in paperback, from San Francisco Bay Area authors.
Arts & Entertainment Local Lit | September’s top literary happenings By Lou Fancher | August 31, 2021 A Winter's Tale; Mary Roach on Mother Nature gone awry; the future with robots; YoYo Ma's bio for kids; creative writing; and more.
Arts & Entertainment Opera Parallèle performs ‘Everest — A Graphic Novel Opera’ By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | August 11, 2021 The unusual and innovative format allows for visualizations that a book, a film, or a stage production couldn't render.
Arts & Entertainment A rude frog is a guide to freedom in Oakland author’s latest novel By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | August 11, 2021 “The President and the Frog” is equal parts fable, political manifesto, and utterly engaging testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
Books Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors | August 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton, Bay City News Foundation | August 10, 2021 New books from San Francisco Bay Area authors, listed by release date.
Around Town Share your shelf | Piedmonters tell us about the books that mean something to them By David E. Thigpen | August 3, 2021 Natalie McHugh shares the books that hold a few key family memories.
Arts & Entertainment Daniel Mason wins California Book Awards’ top fiction prize By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | July 20, 2021 Daniel Mason, a Palo Alto psychiatrist and novelist, won the top prize in the 2021 California Book Awards for his short story collection, "A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth."
Arts & Entertainment Bay City Books: New books from Bay Area authors – July 2021 By Meg Waite Clayton | Bay City News Foundation | July 12, 2021 New books by local authors cover a common theme in many manifestations with stories of salvaging self, family, and society.
Arts & Entertainment Keenan Norris’ new novel imagines an East Bay dystopia By Amelia Williams | Bay City News Foundation | July 8, 2021 "The Confession of Copeland Cane" is the poet, essayist, author, and San Jose State University professor Keenan Norris's latest novel.