with special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster celebrating the release of Poso Wells published by City Lights Books An ABA Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Selection Celebrated...
Booksmith hosts an evening with Arjun Singh Sethi, editor ofAmerican Hate: Survivors Speak Out. More information TBA soon -- save the date and join us! “Why...
Lydia Kiesling joins us to celebrate the release of her new novel, The Golden State, with Ismail Muhammad. Praise for The Golden State “The Golden State is a perfect...
Featured readers: Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Fred Dodsworth, Missy Church. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award's...
The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mia Ayumi Malhotra's debut collection of poems, Isako Isako. Joining Mia areJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems) and the experimental...
Jacqueline Doyle, Chiyuma Elliott, Tracy Jane Gregory, Steve Gutierrez, Carla Harryman, Persis Karim, Caroline Kessler, Rae Liberto and Dean Rader read pieces from They Said: A Multi-Genre...
Meet Gabriela Alemán, celebrated Ecuadorian writer and author of the novel Poso Wells. Among other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was...
In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to...
Join us for this rare reading at The Poetry Center by poet-translator — and SF State alum — Forrest Gander, just in time for the debut...
The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for the new W. W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, featuring readings by local contributors. More TBA...
Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel, Home Fire. Praise for Home Fire “Home Fire left me awestruck, shaken, on the...
A rare gathering of youth talent and voices! Oakland Youth Poet Laureates, Finalists and Honorable Mentions from the past SEVEN years will be performing at...
ZQ-287 PRESENTS: KILLING THE FUTURE A Fiction Reading and Discussion on How to Make Sure There's No Future Forever Sep. 7 *featuring* AFFLICTION INCLUDED (AUTHOR'S...
Friday, September 7th | 7pm - Main Reading Room Four to five esteemed Bay Area authors and booksellers debate the merits of the 100 Books...
Now that we have a new space (1543 Shattuck in North Berkeley), it's time to launch our own reading series. Come nosh on some snacks...
Friday, September 7, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Obi Kaufmann presents his award-winning best seller, The California Field Atlas. Following a visual presentation, Obi will be...
Pegasus Books Downtown Saturday September 8, 5:30pm Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl, the New York Times best-selling authors of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, present and sign...
Babylon Salon presents our Fall Reading Saturday, September 8, 2018, 6.00 pm at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street (downstairs performance space) featuring -- Daniel Mallory Ortberg...
Poetry reading by Diane Frank, Erik Levins, and Mary Kay Rummel, followed by an open mic, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly, Frank...
2018 California Book Award Finalist Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. "Reyes...
This year’s Unity Day in Vallejo will feature performances by ten local poets: Vallejo Poet Laureate D.L. Lang, Nina Serrano, Aqueila Lewis, Ja Hicks, Lady...
Sunday, September 9, 10:00am - 5:00pm Solano Ave, Berkeley SOLANO STROLL Since 1974 Solano Avenue and the twin-cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted...
Writer-contributors read to celebrate the publication of "Giving Voice: Laborfest Writers Anthology, 2005-2017"
Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...
Author Gary Gach points out that just because our eyes are open doesn’t mean we’re awake. He invites us to shift from our “auto-pilot” approach...
Alexandra and David Brown discuss their new book, A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World-and How to Make it Happen for You. About A...
On their first date, David started describing to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation...
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
celebrating the release of The Incendiaries from Riverhead Books Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Time, Parade, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, PBS, Vulture,Buzzfeed, BookRiot, PopSugar, Refinery29, Bustle, The Rumpus, Paste, BBC. A shocking...
Our ancestors can be the real people who came before us or the imagined people of literature or the real people who imagined that literature....