Join us as we celebrate three amazing children's books: Sam! (written by Dani Gabriel, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo), I Am Sausal Creek/Soy El...
“American Sutra” discussion on author panel for the 2020 National Day of Remembrance. Time TBD. Sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of...
Day of Remembrance: Duncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams...
NEXT THERE: THERE 32 will be Saturday, February 22, 2020, at East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland, guests TBA. THERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco...
Come out to Kiran Bhat's upcoming reading from his new book We of the Forsaken World at Oakland's Café Uccello (340 14th St) next Sunday...
Robots, like any technology, are not “objective” or “universal”; instead, machines reveal the process of social formation. This talk by poet, scholar, and new media...
Aria Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut book, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry...
John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: Soda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View a...
A book launch celebration for The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel, by San Francisco poet Lawrence Fixel, who passed in 2003 at the...
Please Join Us on Thursday, February 27 at 7 PM for a Practicing the Craft: Write Character, Dialogue and Action with Constance Hale The Writers...
Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as...
Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM Hosted by Kris Welch advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley),...
Slam Jam! A series presenting original music and poetry featuring a rotating lineup of Bay Area Spoken Word Artists and Musicians. Held on the Cabaret...
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present: RICHARD D. WOLFF Understanding Socialism With Sabrina Jacobs advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores,...
Join Sahar Delijani, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. 6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments 7pm...
February is the month of love and loneliness, Pisces and Leap Year. But we're doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong...
Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose...
Copper Canyon Press presents… Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok Sat Feb 29, 7pm EastSide Cultural Center 2277 International...
Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s...
Join Dr. Fred Moten in reflection and dialogue on his most recent journey towards Buenaventura, navigating the deep affinities and differences between Black and Indigenous...
THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...
Ocean Vuong is the author of the internationally best-selling debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019). He is also the author of the critically...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome contributors from the new edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism on Friday, March...
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: STEVEN LEVY FACEBOOK: The Inside Story Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert advance tickets: $12:T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, benefits...
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...
Lisa Moore Ramée will be in conversation with David William Hill and reading from her debut YA novel, "A Good Kind of Trouble." “Full of...
Come join us for the second collaboration between Charles Blades Barber Spa and Pochino Press! Our feature for this edition is live jazz by the...
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was a silver medal winner in First Fiction...