**THE INCOMPARABLE CLAIRE STRINGER IS COMING 2 TOWN** & u know what that means: we're eating breakfast 4 dinner sweet readings & savory bites savory...
Andrew Lawler presents The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing...
Shannon Wheeler Book Signing! Thursday, August 2, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown New Yorker cartoonist and multiple Eisner Award-winner Shannon Wheeler signs his brand new book Memoirs of...
Martin Espada's new book of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Sandra Cisneros calls him “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Recent collections include The...
Martín Espada‘s new book of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Sandra Cisneros calls him “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Recent collections...
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by...
Thor Hanson Presents Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. "A wondrous,...
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...
East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of The Conspiracy, by Israel Centeno, on Monday August 6th at 7pm. When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot...
Undertone Mag is celebrating the launch of its second issue, "On Body," with a reading at E.M. Wolfman Books. Come by on August 8th for...
DATE & TIME: Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 7 p.m. LOCATION: Books Inc. 1491 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94710 View a map and get directions....
to celebrate our printing and release of read this when hungry, we're hosting a reading and sale !! including other zines on desire: symbiotic sexting...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel, The Incendiaries, on Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm. Joining...
Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Jason Heller to discuss his book Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, on Wednesday, August 15th at 7pm. Joining him in...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday, August 16th at 7pm. Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes D. Wystan Owen to discuss his story collection, Other People's Love Affairs, on Tuesday, August 21st at 7pm. In the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan...
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts)...
Queer authors Natasha Dennerstein, Gar McVey-Russel, Anand Vedawala, Vernon Keeve III, and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett read from their favorite Queer authors. Laurel Bookstore will be closing...
KPFA Radio 94.1FM & St. John's Presbyterian Church present MARTHA NUSSBAUM THE MONARCHY OF FEAR For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar...
Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month's show features TBD and TBD! Music...
Katie Henry Launch for Heretics Anonymous, her hilarious debut YA novel about a band of misfits who set out to challenge their strict Catholic school, one nun at...
Presenting Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish. One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle grade novel, for fans of Ghost andSee You...
Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of James Cagney's first full-length poetry collection, Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of...
As school starts back up and summer slides to its close, SNS celebrates "Nighttime." Give us stars, dreams, darkness, a night on the town—Feel free...
Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., for his new book Aware: The...
BAY AREA GENERATIONS #60 August in Oakland, California at Joyce Gordon Gallery Guest Curator: David Brehmer; Board Curator: Marise Phillips READERS Tasha Mini + Susan Nordmark...
Annual Faculty Reading, with Cecil Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, John Shoptaw, and Sara Nicholson READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE...
Wednesday, August 29, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Mystery authors Joe Clifford (Broken Ground) and David Corbett (The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday) discuss their most...
Tuesday, September 11, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tim Burkett discusses Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives. ABOUT ZEN IN THE AGE OF...