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Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)

Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco

One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.

Benjamin Ludwig

Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera

Discussing Ginny Moon.

Dodie Bellamy + Kevin Killian

City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco

Celebrating the release of Writers Who Love too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997

Marissa Moss

Books Inc. Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness, San Francisco

Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.

Why There Are Words: Suggestible

Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito

Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible.

$10

Evolving American Dream

SHED 25 North Street, Healdsburg

Two contemporary master story tellers, who focus on the immigrant experience, talk about how their novels and stories portray the current immigrant experience.

$15

Glori Simmons

Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco

Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection, Suffering Fools, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.

Laura McBride

Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley

Laura McBride reads from her new novel 'Round Midnight.

Two Voices Salon: Simon Wickhamsmith

Center for the Art of Translation office 582 Market St #700, San Francisco

Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito converse about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era