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Booksmith is thrilled to present the virtual launch event for Michelle Richmond and her new novel The Wonder Test. She'll be in conversation with the one and only Katie Crouch!...

reading from her new novel Wayward published by Alfred Knopf A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from...

JOIN US ON THURSDAY, JULY 8 AT 6PM PT WHEN JESSICA HOPPER JOINS US TO DISCUSS THE SPECIAL REISSUE OF HER BOOK, THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY...

The Great Offshore Grounds (in paperback June 29th), by Vanessa Veselka, was longlisted for the National Book Award and is loved by our staff. It is...

Sarah Kobrinsky and Caroline Goodwin host a virtual reading with two Bay Area poets and two poets based in Wales, UK. Susan Cohen returned to...

Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea Sure, you maybe read Jane Eyre in college but you won’t believe the ways this thoroughly adult novel will...

JOIN US ON MONDAY, JULY 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN VIOLET KUPERSMITH JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST NOVEL, BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY, WITH RACHEL KHONG...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Adam Serwer, award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, will discuss The Cruelty Is the Point—his searing collection of essays which make a damning case that cruelty...

Editor Steve Kettmann and contributors Sarina Morales and Mark Kreidler will discuss their new book Remember Who You Are: What Pedro Gomez Showed Us About Baseball and...

Please join us on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan...

The Booksmith and Internet Archive present a discussion between Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge, which has been shortlisted for the Wolfson...

THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Facebook is daily fare for two and a half billion users worldwide— and is also the red-hot target of worldwide...

Please join us on Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of SONGS IN URSA MAJOR with author Emma Brodie. Our discussion will be...

New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi will join us for a virtual event to celebrate The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, her sequel to The Henna Artist. Joshi's new novel once again...

Freer Futures How do we democratize technology? How can we develop better models for developing, owning, and organizing the infrastructures of our lives? Please join...

THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT. Fans of The Henna Artist, rejoice! Kepler’s favorite and bestselling author Alka Joshi returns this summer with the exciting second installment...

Poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Wells joins us to discuss her new book, Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World (FSG). “We are living...

The Mesa Refuge and Point Reyes Books present Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros, who will discuss their new book, The Atlas of Disappearing Places (New Press). This event...

reading from his new novel What Strange Paradise published by Alfred Knopf From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War: a new novel—beautifully written, unrelentingly...

Please join us on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo...

Matthew Specktor and Adam Pfahler discuss Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor published by Tin House Blending memoir...

Jennifer Jewell joins us to celebrate the publication of Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press). “One of the...