East Bay
Events
Calendar of Events
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Celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers - Laura Davis, Molly Prosser, Turi Fesler Steffen, and Laura Vrcek |
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Christopher Bernard reads from his new book of poems, Chien Lunatique, at Diesel, A Bookstore.
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Join us at this classic pub quiz, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary, some not). |
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Copies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event. |
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In this workshop, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay, Patricia Smith, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection, creative response, and action.
$3.80 – $8.54
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An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. |
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Andrew Schelling in discussion with Jaime De Angulo about Angulo's new book, Tracks Along the West Coast. |
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Beautiful Things Project presents Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension, a photographic collaboration with Nye’ Lyn Tho. |
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A release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! |
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The Oakland Book Festival hosts over 100 novelists, poets, historians, philosophers, journalists, editors, and activists at City Hall, engaging event goers in panels, interviews, and open debate. This year’s Festival will feature Angela Davis, Judith Butler, Danielle Allen, Jeff Chang, Arlie Hochschild, Sheryl Oring, Mistah F.A.B, Wendy Brown, Ishmael Reed, Laura Albert and Anthony Marra (among many others). |
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Moe's welcomes poet, musician and old friend Clark Coolidge in celebration of two new releases. |
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DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel, Behind the Moon. |
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Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event, which is open to writers of all genres (and... |
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Free admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion. |
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Uptown Fridays reading featuring MG Roberts and Melissa Eleftherion, with music guest Heather Jovanelli. |
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It's a literary party-slash-fundraiser for STANZA--hosted by the delectable Temescal Brewery in Oakland. |
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Wendy Lesser, founder and editor of The Threepenny Review, discusses her landmark biography, You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. |
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Please join us on Thursday, June 1st for a reading and conversation with Robert Hass + David Koehn to benefit Omnidawn. |
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2 events,Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear. |
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