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April 2019
Afternoon Seminar: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris Who needs to be talked into reading this comic genius?? Sedaris is so smart and funny, such a master of observation, that he is calling the seminars away from our usual fiction to immerse us in his hilarious world. Leavened with some of his smartest humor, this volume encompasses not only Sedaris’s singular childhood but the hazards of growing older. We will take a close look at how his humor works, how structure…
Find out more »Cherrie Moraga
Internationally acclaimed artist, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. As a child, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson…
Find out more »Independent Bookstore Day 2019
Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, all day long, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year, or sign up for our events emails. What is Independent Bookstore Day? Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Every store is unique and independent, and every party is…
Find out more »David Zeltser, The Night Library
SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2019 - 4:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th, 2019. The Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books…
Find out more »Bill McKibben
Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he’s broadening that warning: the entire human game has begun to play itself out. Join us for an event with one of America’s most outspoken climate activists. Since authoring his landmark 1989 book on climate change, The End of Nature, McKibben’s work continues to provoke authority. In 2007, Deep Economy predicted the "shop local” movement while criticizing the too-rapid growth of multi-national corporations as they…
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- Chia-Chia LinSF/Bay Area writer Chia-Chia Lin--a graduate Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop--reads from her debut novel, "The Unpassing," in which a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggles to build a life on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. When their daughter dies of meningitis, family members deal with the loss differently, and distance grows between them […]
- Lambda Literary Awards Finalists ReadingFinalists for the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards, which identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender books of the year, read from their work. Authors include Nona Caspers ("The Fifth Woman"), Isaac R. Fellman ("The Breath of the Sun"), Bud Gundy ("Somewhere Over Lorain Road"), Sara Mithra ("If the Color is Fugitive"), […]
- Pablo dOrsSpanish priest and Zen disciple Pablo d'Ors, author of more than half a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, reads from his first English translation, "Biography of Silence." The book chronicles d'Or's experience as a Catholic priest whose life is changed by Zen meditation, and embodies, with rare honesty and clarity of language, the great […]
- Angela Davis with Marcus Shelby QuintetFamed activist and educator Angela Davis, author of many books ("Women, Culture & Politics" and "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement") joins Marcus Shelby's all-star quintet for an evening of spoken word and music illuminating the legacies of "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.
- Crossing BordersEditors of the new Voice of Witness boo, "Solito, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America" Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman join Lauren Markham to discuss the collection of oral histories, told in the words of 15 young refugees: why they left home, what happened, how they crossed the borders and what it's […]
- Aysegül SavasAysegül Savas, who grew up in Turkey and Denmark, received an MFA from the University of San Francisco. She now lives in Paris and teaches at the Sorbonne. Here, she reads from her debut novel, “Walking on the Ceiling,” about the love affair between a young Turkish woman coming to terms with her past and […]
- Rachel KushnerThe bestselling author of "The Flamethrowers" and "Telex from Cuba," both finalists for the National Book Award, visits The Bindery for an intimate reading from her latest novel, "The Mars Room," a finalist for both the Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle. The book follows Romy Hall as she begins consecutive life sentences […]
- Bay Area Book FestivalThe Bay Area Book Festival returns for its 5th year, with two full days of free, and affordable, programming for all ages. It features writers from Anand Giridharadas, Robert Reich and Shane Bauer to Morgan Parker, Ann Beattie, Jose Antonio Vargas and Carmen Maria Machado, and panels that range in topic from race and immigration […]
- Launch for Jason Bayanis LocusJason Bayani--Artistic Director of Kearny Street Workshop and author of the poetry collection "Amulet"--launches his second book, "Locus," which explores the experience of identity that haunts Pilipinx-Americans since the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act. With Mae Summer and Javi Semejo.
- Miriam Toews with Lydia KieslingThe Canadian author of six previous bestselling novels--including "A Complicated Kindness" and "All My Puny Sorrows"--Miriam Toews visits Green Apple to read from her latest, "Women Talking." The novel is about a group of Mennonite women who learn they aren't being punished in the night by demons for their sins, but drugged and raped by […]