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  • AfroSurreal Writers Monthly Meeting

    AfroSurreal Writers Workshop Oakland, CA, United States

    Folks, do the grown person thing and RSVP yes only if you can confirm your attendance so we can plan accordingly. We need to know...

  • Mitali Perkins

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book, You Bring the Distant Near, is an unforgettable story that...

  • Bikes to Books Five-Year Anniversary Spring Ride

    Jack London Street Jack London Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and urban exploration, Bikes to Books began...

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  • Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito

    El Cerrito Community Center 7007 Moeser Lane, El Cerrito, CA, United States

    Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito Please join us on Sunday, May 20 from 1:30 - 5 pm at the El Cerrito Community Center...

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  • Jason Dewees

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

    Join Mrs. Dalloway's and the Mediterranean Garden Society for a talk and signing by Jason Dewee's on his just released book, Designing with Palms (photography by Caitlin...

  • Express Yourself: Celebrating Gender Diversity

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live...

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  • KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Featured readers - James Zealous Christine No Tifa Love Clara Hsu Sarita de la Madrid Musical guests: Brother Spellbinder Ed Dang With your host Bloodflower

  • An Opportunity to Meet London Breed

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco's mayoral candidates, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday, May 20 starting...

  • THE RACKET! #19

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late - obsession, grief, ghosts - so we thought, let's try something a little more...

  • Rachel Kushner

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel, The Mars Room. Prasie for Rachel Kushner “Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able...

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  • BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us!   When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists...

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8pm $10 online & at the door... TICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open...

  • Jenny Xie

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Jenny Xie   reading from her award winning poetry collection Eye Level published by Graywolf Press Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy...

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  • Daegan Miller discusses THIS RADICAL LAND

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, on Tuesday, May 22nd at 7pm.  Joining him in conversation...

  • Lucy Jane Bledsoe / The Evolution of Love

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! “She’d told herself, and her husband Tom, that...

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  • Daegan Miller

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Daegan Miller   discussing the subject of his new book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent from University of Chicago Press "The...

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  • Andrew Sean Greer / Less

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining...

  • Aja Gabel and Vanessa Hua

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Aja Gabel discusses her new novel, The Ensemble. Praise for The Ensemble "Aja Gabel's powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their...

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  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Jane Gregory, and Wendy Trevino

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco, where she shares...

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  • Poem Jam

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. This is a Reading, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love...

  • Kim Malcolm presents A COUNTRY WITHIN

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece, on Thursday,...

  • Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin

    Goethe Institut 530 Bush St #204, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin Introduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers) Opening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner, EUROPE CENTRAL) Presentations and roundtable...

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