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.

Our third community open mic night with featured reader, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, and host Wayne Goodman.

Alexandra Teague reads from her new novel, The Principles Behind Flotation.

Selected by Maggie Nelson as a 2017 finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.