August 23: Jan Dederick & John Rowe Jan Dederick has published two chapbooks, including Ear to the Rail and Between a Rock and a Soft Place, and a full length...
WELCOME Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center for a celebration of all...
Please join us for the launch of SOCIALIST REALISM (Emily Books/Coffee House, 2019)! TRISHA LOW will read, with special guests JANE GREGORY & BRANDON BROWN....
E.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science...
Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our August book at the July...
Come celebrate with us as we cap our 3rd year (and enter our 4th) as the East Bay's creative writing center/workspace. This is also our...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Marika Lindholm and more (tba) to celebrate the publication of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor, on...
The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island Sunday, Sept 15, 2019, 11a – 4pm Youth readings A literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale...
East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, on Monday September 16th at 7pm. Louise Erdrich,...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sarah Broom to discuss her expansive yet probing biography The Yellow House on Wednesday, September 18th at 7pm. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory...
SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE Friday, September 20, 2019, 7:00pm First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland Tickets are available here! Berkeley Arts & Letters presents world-renowned...
Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley - Open Mic to follow! Jan...
Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center. It’ll be a daytime celebration of...
Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a "magnetic debut... Sprawling and ambitious, with crisp pacing and...
Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel, The Guardian, on Thursday, September 26th at 7pm. In the year...
NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, CLARA JEFFERY. Thursday, September 26, 2019,...
September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton Kathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books, 2018), which Indigo Moor called, “a wondrous example of...
Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 7:00 PM Location: In the basement 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Website “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses...
Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. Tuesday, October 1, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Solano People love hearing jazz...and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich...
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at...
Poetry at Pegasus: Poets Laureate on Social Justice Thursday, October 3, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Five Poets Laureate share poems around a theme of social...
Friday, Oct 04, 2019 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: In the basement of the store 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley MIKE JAY is an author...
Patricia Smith in conversation with Ajuan Mance Friday, October 4, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Lisser Hall Please join us for this special event, presented...
Matt Maiocco, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy present Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark, a coffee table book featuring heartfelt letters from fans...
Lucille Lang Day reads her poems, followed by an interview and discussion. Lucille Lang Day was born in Oakland, where she still lives. Day has...
Established in 1969, Small Press Distribution (SPD) of Berkeley celebrates 50 years as the nation's only literary nonprofit book distributor. SPD is honored to distribute...
We are so excited to announce the release of this is my body, an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, Hagerty Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga,...