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August 2019
Téa Obreht, Inland
Bookshop is delighted to welcome Téa Obreht, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife, back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel, INLAND—an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape, a stunning tale of perseverance and family, and a love letter to the complicated and glorious American West. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is…
Find out more »Catamaran Literary Reader, Fall 2019 Issue Launch
Contributors to the Fall 2019 Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader will join us for a live reading in celebration of the issue launch. Readers featured at this issue launch event will be announced at a later date. Catamaran was founded in 2012 in the Tannery Arts Center Studios in Santa Cruz, California. Their mission is to capture the vibrant creative spirit in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction and to publish the best writing they can find in a narrative, together with fine art. The magazine…
Find out more »September 2019
Poetry in Parks 2019
The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island Sunday, Sept 15, 2019, 11a – 4pm Youth readings A literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale Neighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop Music + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop Live painting by ArtSpan Beer courtesy Lagunitas RSVP / SUBMIT About Quiet Lightning Now in its 10th year, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression.…
Find out more »Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party: Poems
Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture's romanticization of violence against women. In precise, searing language—at times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant—she explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. "Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten…
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- 18th Annual San Francisco Zine FestSan Francisco Zine Fest returns for its 18th annual festival celebrating independent and underground publishing, with a spotlight on the do-it-yourself ethos. Nearly 250 artists and collectives from around the world present their zines, comics, and other goods. This year's guest of honor is Lawrence Lindell ("From Black Boy With Love" and "Couldn't Afford Therapy, […]
- Oakland Peace FestivalThe finale of a three-event series organized by Nomadic Press, the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival celebrates Oakland and peace through music, art, writing, food, and community building. September's theme is Peace, with readings by Terry Taplin, Jevohn Tyler Newsom, Madi Dangerously, Joyce E. Young, and Asantewaa Boykin, a talk by Sandhya Jha and Yvette Felarca, […]
- Oakland Peace FestivalThe 2nd of a three-event series organized by Nomadic Press, the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival celebrates Oakland and peace through music, art, writing, food, and community building. August's theme is Equity, with readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, Flavia Mora, Darius Simpson, Daniel B. Summerhill and Vernon Keeve III, a talk by Cat Brooks and music […]
- Beat Up & Beat DownThe Beat Museum hosts a special evening in collaboration with 70-year-old NY-based performance poet and organizer George Wallace, who is making a rare West Coast appearance. Wallace was Writer in Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace from 2011-2014. Joining him are Iranian-San Franciscan poet and translator Mahnaz Badihian and San Luis Obispo-based Moroccan-American poet Youssef […]
- Launch for Susan Steinberg with Ryan Van MeterAuthor of the short story collections "The End of Free Love" (2003), "Hydroplane" (2006), and "Spectacle" (2013), Susan Steinberg reads from her debut novel "Machine." The words 'experimental' and 'masterful' are often used to describe Steinberg's work, for which she has received a Pushcart Prize. A professor in the USF MFA in Writing program, Steinberg […]
- gods with a little gTupelo Hassman ("Girlchild") returns to San Francisco to read from her second novel "gods with a little g", about a young misfit growing up without a mother in a self-isolated California town even the Internet is blocked and the ways in which she and her friends come together to create a sense of family and […]