Edit Event Pulitzer Authors Featured at Bay Area Book Festival: #Unbound

The names, pages and presentations may have changed, but the Bay Area Book Festival is carrying on through a robust YouTube series after its annual symposium was upended by the coronavirus. The new #Unbound version is a series of live and prerecorded panel discussions on the festival’s YouTube channel, launching the weekend of Friday-Sunday, May 1-3. All are free to watch, with the exception of a Saturday night fundraiser, intended to offset this year’s $300,000 in losses so that a future festival can be staged.

The Saturday night fundraiser spotlights an exchange among Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Anthony Doerr and Viet Thanh Nguyen and R.O. Kwon, author of the best-selling novel "The Incendiaries." The three will explore stepping around the emotional land mines of life during the pandemic.

-- from The San Francisco Chronicle 

Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Fiction Prize for "All the Light We Cannot See." Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Fiction Prize for his wry, confessional, and layered immigrant tale "The Sympathizer."