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...
Friday, March 15 - 7:00 pm University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Avenue, Berkeley I am always haunted by the wise words of my great great...
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...
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents GREG GRANDIN The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall In the Mind of America advance...
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 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 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...
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:...
Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira, hosted by Gary Turchin, open mic, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our March book at the February...
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 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...
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents NICK ESTES with ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline and the...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Meredith May to discuss her new new book The Honey Bus, on Tuesday, April 2nd at 7pm. An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather...
Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Pulitzer finalist Nathan Englander for his new novel, Kaddish.com. More information to come, but save the date and join us! Please note:...
Featured readers: James Cagney, Sara McAulay, George Korolog, Lucille Lang Day. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....
Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld discusses her comprehensive work, A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to...