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• Rebecca Solnit
  Harper's columnist Rebecca Solnit returns to City Arts for her new book "Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (And Essays)." Author of many books, including "The Mother of All Questions," "Men Explain Things to Me," "Hope in the Dark" and "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas," Solnit is in conversation with Astra Taylor […]
• Jill Abramson with Angie Coiro
  The former executive editor of the New York Times--the first female to hold the position in the company's 160-year history--Jill Abramson visits This is Now with Angie Coiro to discuss her new book "Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts," for which she followed four companies--The New York Times, The […]
• Tommy Orange
  One of the best books of 2018, Oakland-based Tommy Orange's debut novel "There There" reached number one on the SF Chronicle bestseller list and is one of three titles shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. The book asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and where […]
• Marlon James
  Bookshop Santa Cruz hosts the Booker Prize and American Book Award-winning author of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" for his anticipated new novel "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," which NPR has already said "will come to be seen as a classic of our times." James reads from and discusses the book, which is the first […]
• Stephanie Land
  Montana-based Stephanie Land reads from her remarkable debut book "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," about her struggles to work her way out of poverty as a single mother scrubbing the toilets and cleaning the homes of the wealthy. Her story will resonate with all overworked, underpaid Americans, giving voice […]
• Tom Barbash and Keith Scribner
  City Lights hosts a reading by novelists Tom Barbash ("Stay Up With Me") and Keith Scribner ("The Oregon Experiment"). Barbash's new book is "The Dakota Winters," about a family living in the famed NYC Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination; Scribner's is "Old Newgate Road," about a father's return […]
• Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander and Bren
  Prominent South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon discusses his new book "Autobiography of Death" with Don Mee Choi ("Hardly War" and "The Morning News is Exciting"), who translated the book into English. With them in conversation are mutual friends and poets Forrest Gander ("Core Samples from the World") and Brenda Hillman ("Seasonal Works with Letters on […]
• Writers With Drinks
  SF's beloved literary variety show, hosted with mind-expanding aplomb by Charlie Jane Anders since 2001, provides a first chance to buy Anders' novel "The City in the Middle of the Night." Anders has earned widespread acclaim for her novel "All the Birds in the Sky" and story collection "Six Months, Three Days, Five Others." With […]
• Esme Weijun Wang
  Author of the novel "The Border of Paradise," which was named a Best Book of 2016 by NPR, Esme Weijun Wang visits Green Apple Books to discuss her new book of essays, "The Collected Schizophrenias," with R.O. Kwon ("The Incendiaries"). The book, which won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, is Wang's brave, intimate and pioneering account […]
• Night of Ideas
  In conjunction with the French Consulate and SFMOMA, the SFPL hosts a seven-hour marathon of philosophical debate, screenings, readings and music, with performances by Julien Poirier, Ash Tre Philips, Kim Shuck, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Robert Andrew Perez, Ava Koohbor, Lisa Gray-Garcia, Josiah Luis Alderete, Thea Matthews, Jack Hirschman, Flavia Mora and many more. See website for […]