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SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading
Project Kalahati 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United StatesJoin on First Friday. Book description: SoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents, channels, and writes from the...
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Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything – Book Launch
Jered's Pottery 5743A Horton St., Emeryville, CA, United StatesJoin Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a...
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50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt
Pegasus Books on Solano 1855 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt Pegasus Books Solano Sunday, November 3, 2pm - 3pm Pegasus families, come join author Wendy Gorton...
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Raina Telgemeier
First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesRaina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT presents Guts, a true story from the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful, charming, and funny tale about...
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Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club
Sierra Club National Headquarters 2101 Webster St, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA - CaliforniaTuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30pm Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., 13th Floor, Oakland Poems...
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Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesWednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...
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Monica Youn
Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMonica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...
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Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandMary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered...
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Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
Perch Coffee House 440 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, United StatesPerch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...
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Shanthi Sekaran, Rachel Howard, and Nathaniel Popkin
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesParents and Children, Hope and Despair: Three Novels Join Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy), Rachel Howard (The Risk...
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Danny Fingeroth presents A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesAbout A Marvelous Life The comprehensive biography of STAN LEE, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former president and...
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Sarah Henry hosting Q&A and book-signing with author Mary Ladd
Rakestraw Books 3 Railroad Avenue, DanvilleMary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold...
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Peter Jan Honigsberg
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPeter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay, inspiring future generations to never repeat...
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Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part
Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, BerkeleyBabar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go...
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Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesSince November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press,...
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The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7
The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesWe're back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue, The Flight Deck, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART...
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Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYWENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to...
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David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation
UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesIn Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation...
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Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung
Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA, United StatesThe first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in...
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Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18
Poetry Express 1585 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United StatesOpen Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019 Joyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens, published by Nomadic Press. Her...
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East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft
The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United StatesJoin us for the East Bay release of "Disasterama", Alvin Orloff's fantabulous new memoir of '90's SF wild club kid, AIDS-activism, agitprop performance, and homocore...
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FeaturedBig Familia Book Launch
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandI am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. It's...
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Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYCO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST MARILYN CHIN's new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said,...
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Berkeley Slam with Asha!
The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry...
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Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesElaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart (and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino's new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. A soulful,...
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Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CAA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Donations will be...
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Moscow Conceptualism: New Translations from the Russian
Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOfficial Site: http://slavic.berkeley.edu/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/ A spate of new translations is bringing the writers and artists of Moscow Conceptualism to an English-language readership for the first time....
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In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera, reading and in conversation
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYFriday, November 22 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way), Berkeley The In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay, to...
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Egypt + Holiday Potluck
Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CAHolidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band...
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