The Eastern Shore 032 - Oakland Book Festival with Kira & Timothy Don

Today's interview: a talk with Kira Brunner Don and Timothy Don, co-directors of the (first ever!) Oakland Book Festival, coming up on May 31, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Oakland City Hall. We talk about creating the event, how they started planning it while they were still living in Brooklyn, why they moved (in Kira's case, moved back; she grew up in Oakland), and what we can expect from this first Oakland Book Festival and possible future events.

Playlist

  1. III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd) by Childish Gambino on Because the Internet (Glassnote Records)
  2. Break
  3. Teen Town by Weather Report on Heavy Weather (Columbia)