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35 events found.
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Editor Dick Cluster reads from Kill the Ámpaya! and discusses Latin American baseball fiction. |
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Celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers - Laura Davis, Molly Prosser, Turi Fesler Steffen, and Laura Vrcek |
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Join us at this classic pub quiz, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary, some not). |
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Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. |
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One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.
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The first official book release party for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay. |
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A literary potpourri featuring authors Erika Atkinson, Michael Helquist, Andrew McIntyre, and Laynie Tzena. |
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Sarah Gailey's wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls "preposterously fun." |
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The Oakland Book Festival hosts over 100 novelists, poets, historians, philosophers, journalists, editors, and activists at City Hall, engaging event goers in panels, interviews, and open debate. This year’s Festival will feature Angela Davis, Judith Butler, Danielle Allen, Jeff Chang, Arlie Hochschild, Sheryl Oring, Mistah F.A.B, Wendy Brown, Ishmael Reed, Laura Albert and Anthony Marra (among many others). |
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Peter Cole discusses his new collection Hymns & Qualms with fellow poet Matthew Zapruder. |
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DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel, Behind the Moon. |
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Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event, which is open to writers of all genres (and... |
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Uptown Fridays reading featuring MG Roberts and Melissa Eleftherion, with music guest Heather Jovanelli. |
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Our third community open mic night with featured reader, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, and host Wayne Goodman. |
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This panel of brave, outspoken, and articulate authors will ask some tough questions about women's role in a Trump era. |
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Annual celebration showcase featuring 4 incredible queer artists. |
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Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.
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Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in the library. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. |
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