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• The Racket#26: Childhood
  Started by SF writer Noah Sanders nearly two years ago, The Racket is a popular monthly reading series in the living-room-like Adobe Books that features a handful of local writers taking on a theme. This month's show, "Childhood," features Ingrid Rojas Contreras ("Fruit of the Drunken Tree") with Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Yalitza Ferreras and others TBA.
• Sally Wen Mao
  Sally Wen Mao, whose debut book of poems "Mad Honey Symposium" earned her a fanbase, inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2013 and Alice James Books' Kinereth Gensler Award, visits SF fresh from an artist residency in Shanghai to read from her second collection, "Oculus," just out from Graywolf Press. Mao won a 2017 Pushcart […]
• Sam Lipsyte
  New York-based Sam Lipsyte visits The Bindery to read from his fourth novel, the social satire "Hark," which follows an unwitting and then reluctant mindfulness guru as he becomes something of a cult leader, inspiring people to focus in a time of great chaos. As hilarious as it is absurd, the book also follows a […]
• Meg Wolitzer
  Author of many novels, including "The Wife," "The Ten-Year Nap," "The Interestings" and her latest, the timely and widely discussed NYT bestseller "The Female Persuasion," Meg Wolitzer is beloved for her ability to write so entertainingly about the complex and profound. She's in town to speak with The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik as part of […]
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
  Seattle-based author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore returns to San Francisco to read from her third novel, "Sketchtasy," a portrait of '90s gay culture set in Boston. Her 2013 memoir, "The End of San Francisco," won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender nonfiction, and she's editor of five nonfiction anthologies, including "Why Are Faggots So Afraid of […]
• David St. John & Jane Mead
  For its first event of the year, Marin Poetry Center hosts a reading by poets David St. John and Jane Mead. St. John, based in Venice, is the author of a dozen books including "The Last Troubadour: Selected and New Poems" (2017). Mead, who lives in Northern California, was the longtime poet-in-residence at Wake Forest […]