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• Lisa Locascio with Kate Folk
  Editor of "Golden State 2017: New Writing from California" Lisa Locascio visits San Francisco to read from her debut novel, "Open Me." An American, Roxana, decides to study abroad after graduating high school and ends up in Copenhagen, where she falls in love with her guide. As their relationship deepens, his mood darkens and Roxana […]
• Vanessa Hua with Oscar Villalon
  Author of the acclaimed story collection "Deceit and Other Possibilities," Vanessa Hua launches her debut novel, "A River of Stars," which follows a Chinese woman as she sets off for California to give birth to her married boss's son. Fleeing with her is her housemate, an unmarried mother kept apart from her American boyfriend. Hua […]
• Virgie Tovar
  Beloved local activist Virgie Tovar, who started Babecamp and the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and is one of the nation's leading voices on fat discrimination and body image, launches her new book, "You Have the Right to Remain Fat," with a reading and conversation. Tovar is the managing director of Radar Productions and editor of "Hot […]
• Ingrid Rojas Contreras + Carolina De Robertis
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras launches her gorgeous debut novel “Fruit of the Drunken Tree,” set in the turbulence of the Colombian conflict. Chula, 7, and her family live in a gated community in Bogotá; they hire a live-in maid, Petrona, from the city’s guerilla-occupied slum before fleeing the escalating war. Based on Contreras’ life, the story […]
• InsideStoryTime: Hubrility
  The monthly reading series InsideStoryTime, which alternates between San Francisco and Oakland, this month features performances by Maw Shein Win ("Invisible Gifts"), Natalie Devora ("Black Girl White Skin"), Kitty Costello ("Upon Waking"), Grant Faulkner ("Fissures") and Graham Todd in the intimate space of The Octopus Literary Salon, which also has a healthy variety of food […]