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.
Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.
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.
Poets Kim Shuck and Dan Vera will host a poetry workshop for young adults, by drawing on the poetry anthology, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
All Ages Welcome!
Babylon Salon is a San Francisco-based showcase and community of writers, performers, readers, singers, musicians, magicians, imbibers (of spirits and spirit), and revelers.
Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras, identity, and art.
Banty Hen, Andrea Passwater, and Rosie Cima perform music to poetry.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel, Touch.
Readings by Aamina Ahmad, Peg Alford Pursell, Michael Shewmaker, + Shelley Wong.
This will be a free show, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist.
This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
A first come, first serve reading group.
Booksmith is thrilled to host writer and editor Lisa Locascio for the launch of Golden State 2017: New Writing from California.
A night of reading!
A night of Beat Poetry!
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Robert Hass, Douglas Manuel, and Charles Hood to the store to discuss and sign their latest works.
Reading from her short fiction debut, Large Animals.
Each reading will have a theme, June 7th being The Beautiful One's Birthday will be a tribute to Prince.
Booksmith is excited to host author Trina Robbins for her new graphic novel, A Minyen Yidn!
Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi to the store to discuss and sign Kintu.
Laleh Khadivi in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom celebrating the release of A Good Country
Join us to celebrate the launch of Royal Bastards by local author Andrew Shvarts.
Jenny Forrester in conversation with Ariel Gore about her memoir, Narrow River, Wide Sky.
Thad Carhart reads from his delightful memoir, Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France, just out in paperback.
Danielle Krysa discussing her book, Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk.
Local luminary Paul Madonna will be in conversation with acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold re: his new book “On To The Next Dream.”
9 women writers, represented in anthology Cleave/Liminal, will read from their work.
Annie Hartnett discusses her new novel, Rabbit Cake, w/ Ellen O'Connell Whittet.