East Bay

Please join us in celebrating the publication of Red Moon. Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York...

InsideStorytime will be at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, Thursday November 15th, 7-9pm. details TBA

Author Calvin Gimpelevich is touring the West Coast in support of INVASIONS: the debut short fiction collection, just out from Instar Books! Come out to...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a...

Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018: November 3, December 1 3:00 – 5:00 PM STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block...

Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! It's going to be an amazing evening of readings,...

Join us for fruitcake and cheer in this annual Mrs. Dalloway's tradition. Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 7:30pm First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical...

Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing, Louise in Love, The Last Two Seconds, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle...

Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We'll...

Featured readers: Jon Sindell, Sara McAulay, Robert Pesich, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award's...

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...

Friday, December 7th, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout! Please join us on Friday, December 7th, from 7:30-9:30 pm, for a reading featuring Brenda Hillman...

As most or all of you know, Julia Vinograd passed away very peacefully on the morning of December 5. There will be a gathering to...

Renowned local poet and writer Alison Hart shares her stunning work of literary fiction, Mostly White. This special event will include a Reader's Theater performance featuring Alison Hart, Lady H a.k.a. Haninah Abdullah, Cynthia...

East Bay Booksellers welcomes Thomas Kohnstamm to discuss his new new book Lake City. He will be in conversation with Broke-Ass Stuart Schuffman. The novel’s setting...

Lyndsay Faye, author of Edgar-nominated Jane Steele and Gods of Gotham, will discuss her exciting new historical thriller, The Paragon Hotel, which follows Alice “Nobody” from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland’s the...

Joining Books Inc. in Berkeley for an evening of thrills and chills with award-winning mystery writer Matt Coyle sharing his intriguing new novel, Wrong Light: Rick Cahill #5. Matt will...

Tony Platt, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley, discusses his groundbreaking new work, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking...

Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at...

featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act), Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys), James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory), Dinika Amaral, and Ralph Paone, will be at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101...

East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the...