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• Geoffrey G. OBrien, Jane Gregory, and Wendy Trevi
  An evening with three poets: Wendy Trevino, author of "#YourHarveyWeinstein" and "Cruel Fictions" (forthcoming from Commune Editions); Jane Gregory, author of "My Enemies" and "Yeah No"; and Geoffrey G. O'Brien, author of many books, including "People on Sunday" and-with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly- "Three Poets," whose next, "Experience in Groups," is forthcoming from Wave […]
• Rachel Kushner
  Rachel Kushner reads from and discusses her new novel, "The Mars Room," which is set in a California women's correctional facility. It follows Romy Hall at the beginning of two consecutive life sentences. Kushner is author of the novels "Telex from Cuba" and "The Flamethrowers," both of which were finalists for the National Book Award.
• Dorianne Laux and Joshua Mensch
  The Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Dorianne Laux and Joshua Mensch. Laux's recent collections are "The Book of Men," which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and "Facts about the Moon," which won the Oregon Book Award. Her "Only As The Day Is Long" is forthcoming from W.W. Norton, which is also publishing Prague-based […]
• Michelle Tea
  Sister Spit and Radar Productions creator Michelle Tea returns to San Francisco to read from her new book "Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms" (Feminist Press). Author of many works-including "Valencia," "How to Grow Up" and "Black Wave"-Tea blends honesty with dark humor as she moves deftly between telling other people's stories and her own.
• Carmen Giménez Smith
  Carmen Giménez Smith ("Milk & Filth") gives a reading to launch her latest collection of poetry, "Cruel Futures," which is No. 17 in City Lights' Spotlight Series. A Latina feminist State of the Union address that offers an intimate, high-energy analysis of pop culture, the book examines social roles for women and mental illness. Barbara […]
• Writers With Drinks
  The Bay Area's longest-running literary variety show this month features readings by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich ("The Fact of a Body"), Allegra Huston ("Say My Name"), Cyrus Farivar ("Habeas Data"), Maw Shein Win ("Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems"), C.B. Lee ("Not Your Villain") and Irene Tu ("Man Haters" comedy show). Hosted by Charlie Jane Anders ("All […]
• Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
  Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton read new work and discuss the role poets can play as activists. The author of nine poetry collections, Hillman was awarded the international Griffin Poetry Prize in 2014 for "Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire"; her most recent is "Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days." singleton is the author of […]
• Clemantine Wamariya
  Clemantine Wamariya's debut, "The Girl Who Smiled Beads," tells the real-life story of her and her sister's escape, at the ages of six and fifteen, from the Rwandan genocide, and their journey, over the subsequent six years and through seven countries, to safety. After being granted refugee status in the U.S., their lives diverge. Clemantine […]
• Melissa Broder
  The Bindery hosts "So Sad Today" author Melissa Broder reading from her new novel "The Pisces," which she discusses with "The Millions'" Lydia Kiesling. The book follows a woman, Lucy, who after a dramatic breakup moves from Phoenix to Los Angeles and falls in love with a merman: half man, half fantasy. Her obsession and […]
• Jamel Brinkley
  Booksmith hosts the Bay Area launch for Jamel Brinkley's first book, the collection of stories "A Lucky Man" (Graywolf), which Garth Greenwell has called "the rare debut that introduces not a promising talent but a major writer, fully formed." A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Brinkley recently moved to the Bay […]