Book Fest reborn online

The Bay Area Book Festival, shut down by the coronavirus and relaunched as The Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, will begin a series of live and recorded virtual author programs on its YouTube channel this weekend.

Topics will include voting rights, health and wellness, family and children, and the ways that art and literature shape our personal and social lives during the pandemic. Expect discussions on how COVID-19could affect the general election and voting in general, how the pandemic is shaping our thoughts on end-of-life issues and mental health, and how to explain to children when it’s hard to even explain it to yourself.

Authors will include Jesse Wegman (“Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College”), Amber McReynolds (“When Women Vote”), Steve Phillips (“Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority”), David Daley (“Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy”), Carol Anderson (“White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide”), Jeff Fleischer (“Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections”), Elizabeth Rusch (“You Call THIS Democracy?”) and many others. There also will be programming aimed at kids on weekend mornings.

Details: Videos available Friday through Sunday; find the schedule and more information at www.baybookfest.org/ unboundsneakpeek.