• Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    #we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...

    Free
  • James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    About the Book Tens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book...

    Free
  • Children’s Storyteller Series

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    CHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Come enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children's book series "Too-Tall Foyle"....

    Free
  • What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    ***Friday, March 1st, Wolfman Books, Downtown Oakland, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By Alec West Philip...

  • Teen Poetry Open Mic

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Bring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate - Oakland Samuel...

    Free
  • BAPC Open Poetry Reading

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA   Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...

  • Morgan Parker

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Tuesday March 5, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Morgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma, loneliness, sexuality,...

  • On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell, Jan Steckel, Andrew O. Dugas, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....

  • Elinor Lipman

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Elinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Good Riddance, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously...

  • Tarfia Faizullah

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press, 2018), and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of a VIDA Award, a GLCA New...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...

  • Helen Oyeyemi – – Gingerbread

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread, on Saturday, March 16th at 7pm. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen...

  • Lea Kirk at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

    Free
  • Shobha Rao

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Tuesday March 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Shobha Rao’s novel Girls Burn Brighter, longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First...

  • Moira Crone, Rodger Kamenetz, and Ariel Resnikoff

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Two New Orleans based writers--poet and dreamworker Rodger Kamenetz and fiction writer Moira Crone--join forces with East Bay native and recent returnee Ariel Resnikoff for...

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel The Hazards of Time Travel, an ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an...

  • InsideStorytime CLOSURE

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes), Anne-christine d'Adesky (The Pox Lover), Jenn Stroud Rossman (The Place You're Supposed to Laugh), and others, will be at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street,...

  • Kurt Eichenwald

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Kurt Eichenwald presents A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir, the compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--his torturous decision to keep...

  • BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Cory Doctorow / Radicalized

    Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Berkeley Arts & Letters presents New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother and co-editor of BoingBoing Cory Doctorow for his new book Radicalized, a collection of four new, urgent...

    $12 – $48
  • Carolyn Forche: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

    Berkeley Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Carolyn Forche What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Hosted by Dennis Bernstein advance tickets:...

    $12 – $15
  • Shiv Kotecha, Ed Steck, and Syd Staiti

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! Shiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015). Writing can also...

  • BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Siri Hustvedt / Memories of the Future

    Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Berkeley Arts & Letters presents international bestselling author of The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt for Memories of the Future, a provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination...

    $12 – $48