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Bay Area Book Festival 2015 by Richard Friedman

Cherilyn Parsons risked it all on Bay Area Book Festival

June 1, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, Out Loud

When Cherilyn Parsons quit her job to start the Bay Area Book Festival, she had no funding and no experience producing large-scale events. At the…

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LACUNA: a library, an art installation

March 30, 2015
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, NEWS, Scene, Upcoming Events

As part of the first annual Bay Area Book Festival, this… thing is happening: a library constructed from 50,000 books donated by the Internet Archive,…

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