• Prerna Lal

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Prerna Lal launching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. "Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed--Prerna Lal...

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series Wednesday, October 16, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring...

  • LITQUAKE! LIT-Crawl

    LIT-Crawl SF Please join us for a great night of literary fun along 24th Street! 5:00pm - Phase 1:  TONGO EISEN-MARTIN and friends 8:00pm -...

  • Lawrence Weschler

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Lawrence Weschler presents And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks, the untold story of the famous neurologist, his own most singular patient. "The story...

  • Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    October 25, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley Bruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay...

  • Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St, Berkeley, CA

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA Deborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She...

  • Susan Steinberg presents Machine

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Susan Steinberg presents Machine Wednesday, October 30, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Susan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning,...

  • Impromptu writing online via Zoom!

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    Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly...

    $11.44
  • SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading

    Project Kalahati 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

    Join on First Friday. Book description: SoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents, channels, and writes from the...

    Free
  • Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything – Book Launch

    Jered's Pottery 5743A Horton St., Emeryville, CA, United States

    Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a...

    Free
  • 50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt

    Pegasus Books on Solano 1855 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt Pegasus Books Solano Sunday, November 3, 2pm - 3pm Pegasus families, come join author Wendy Gorton...

  • Raina Telgemeier

    First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT presents Guts, a true story from the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful, charming, and funny tale about...

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  • Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club

    Sierra Club National Headquarters 2101 Webster St, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA - California

    Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30pm Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., 13th Floor, Oakland Poems...

    $20
  • Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...

  • Monica Youn

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...

  • Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered...

    Free
  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

    Perch Coffee House 440 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...

    Free
  • Shanthi Sekaran, Rachel Howard, and Nathaniel Popkin

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Parents and Children, Hope and Despair: Three Novels Join Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy), Rachel Howard (The Risk...

    Free
  • Peter Jan Honigsberg

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay, inspiring future generations to never repeat...

  • Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley

    Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go...

    Free
  • Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press,...

    Free
  • The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7

    The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United States

    We're back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue, The Flight Deck, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART...

    $5 – $10
  • Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to...

    Free
  • David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

    UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

    In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation...

    Free