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• Siri Hustvedt
  Brooklyn-based Siri Hustvedt, the internationally acclaimed author of four essay collections, a book of poetry, a work of nonfiction and six novels, including "The Blazing World" (winner of the LA Book Prize), visits Berkeley Arts & Letters to read from her new novel, "Memories of the Future," about a Midwesterner's first year in NYC in […]
• Namwali Serpell with Michelle Quint
  The Bindery hosts Namwali Serpell for the launch of her spectacular debut novel, "The Old Drift," set on the banks of the Zambezi River in a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Three Zambian families--black, white, brown--collide over the course of the 20th century, into the present and beyond, into a richly imagined future. Serpell […]
• Salvatore Scibona
  "The Volunteer," the second novel by National Book Award Finalist Savatore Scibona ("The End"), begins when a small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport. To make sense of this, the story returns to the moment, decades before, when a young Iowan enlists for the Marine Corps to […]
• 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 […]
• Mitchell S. Jackson
  New York-based Mitchell S. Jackson's widely praised debut novel "The Residue Years" (2013) won the Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His second book, "Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family" follows his own family as they try to get by in a small, drug-ravaged neighborhood of Portland, Oregon as members of a tiny […]
• Leland de la Durantaye with Lydia Kiesling
  LA-based Leland de la Durantaye visits Green Apple on the Park to read from his debut book, "Hannah Versus the Tree" (McSweeney's), about an intelligent young woman who is the daughter of a powerful family's black sheep son. When she opposes a family scheme and is dealt a devastating loss, her response is unforgettable. Lydia […]
• Brandon Shimoda with Aisuke Kondo
  In conjunction with programs being organized across the U.S. this month to commemorate the bicentennial of Walt Whitman's birth, The Poetry Center presents Tucson-based poet Brandon Shimoda and Berlin-based artist Aisuke Kondo on the theme "'What is it then between us?' Poetry and Democracy." At 6 pm, an unstructured meditation in the Ruth Asawa Garden; […]
• Irvine Welsh with Alan Black
  The Scottish author of a dozen novels, including "Trainspotting," Irvine Welsh returns to San Francisco to read from his new novel, "Dead Mean's Trousers," which involves the main characters years after their last encounter in "The Blade Artist." Mostly cleaned up, their unexpected reunion sets off a ridiculous chain of events filled with violence, drugs […]
• Morgan Parker
  Author of the poetry collections "There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce" and "Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night," Los Angeles-based Morgan Parker visits Mills College to read from her anticipated third collection, "Magical Negro" (Tin House Books), for the Contemporary Writers Series. A recipient of a 2017 NEA Fellowship, Parker has a […]
• Quiet Lightning
  Here, all forms of writing are featured as a literary mixtape, curated through a blind submission process by Christine No and Chad Koch and performed live by the authors. The show is published as a book featuring letter-pressed cover art by Amos Klausner, which is free to the first 100 people.