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reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.

Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...

Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...

George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...

Tuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...

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...

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"....

***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...

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

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...

Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons, Moondrifter Reverie, and Lisa Rosenberg, A Different Physics, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, wheelchair accessible, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)

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,...

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

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,...

Aditi Machado  with Lindsay Choi READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Readings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...