Come roam the various buildings of our campus, engage with artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, see performances, hear readings, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Alana Apfel to the store to discuss and sign Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities.
As part of Poetry Month, Pegasus Books and Poetry Flash present Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume.
Revenue agent and/or grim reaper costumes encouraged. Free, though donations of cash and beer will be accepted.
Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel, The Border of Paradise.
She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Young adult fiction writer Jandy Nelson reads from and discusses her work.
A Reading with Jennifer Egan, Part of the Lane Lecture Series.
Part of Celebrating the Beats at Top of the Mark.
Release party for his new poetry collection!
Pegasus Books presents Paolo Bacigalupi, on his paperback tour for The Water Knife.
Free and open to the public.
We'll kick off the evening as usual with a short discussion of what's new in translation and what we're reading now. Come prepared to join the conversation!
Join RADAR Productions on our signature series, Hella Close, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program!
Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series!
Note: this event was originally to take place at the Make-out Room but had to relocate -- apologies for any confusion.)
This laugh-out-loud book is the perfect gift to amuse and educate your friends, loved ones, and lovers.
Sinan Antoon (Baghdad, 1967) is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator.
We will celebrate the mighty power of small presses as they read from their new and forthcoming works.
Come celebrate independent literature!
A night of explosive poetry!
Yuri Herrera, author of staff favorite Signs Preceding the End of the World, discusses his new novel, The Transmigration of Bodies, with Aaron Bady.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang and Ranbir Singh Sidhu to the store to discuss and compare their two debut novels.
Christos Ikonomou in conversation with Anne Germanacos about his English-language debut, Something Will Happen, You'll See.
Vossoughi, Karim, Darznik + Etaat will be discussing the new narratives being shaped today in Iranian-American literature.
LET'S BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER TO THE GROUND! presents: Mixed-genre reading featuring Ben Hahn, Giovanna Morduchovich, Isobel O'Hare.
This book is a masterfully crafted debut novel that asks what it means to provide for one's family and, in answer, delivers a story as riveting as it is profound.
Hugo García Manríquez’s most recent book is Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Litmus Press/Aldus Editorial).
Daredevils is the thrilling new book by Shawn Vestal, who won last year’s PEN Bingham prize for his story collection,Godforsaken Idaho.
Poet, Performer, + Playwright Genny Lim w/ Composer/Pianist Jon Jang.