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Equal parts time travel tale, thriller, and baseball saga, Bill Zarchy’s debut novel Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale is a gripping, humorous, and entertaining look at...

JOIN US ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN LAUREN OYLER IS JOINED BY ANNA WIENER TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, FAKE ACCOUNTS, ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

In Assume Nothing, award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story...

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Dr. Euan Angus Ashley for his new book The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible...

Join us for a special pajama party with local author Mitali Perkins and her dog to celebrate the launch of Mitali's new picture book, Home is in Between!...

VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee...

discussing her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound published by Belknap Press / Harvard University Press ----------...

Small Mistakes, Big Consequences for Interviews is a lighthearted look at the top 20 interviewing mistakes that people make without realizing the potential consequences. Learn...

Lydia Millet joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of A Children's Bible (W.W. Norton), one of the New York Times "Top Ten...

The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Ed Frauenheim for his new book Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection, co-authored...

reading from their work and talking about literature Lidia Yuknavich celebrates the paperback release of Verge: stories published by Riverhead Books Named one of the Best...

reading Your Name is a Song.  "This lovely celebration of African American culture, featuring a Muslim family, offers a fresh way to look at the tradition...

Join Eastwind Book Club this February as we read Gina Apostol's novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. About this Event Eastwind Book Club is...

celebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines published by City Lights Books ---------- This is...

JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MARCH 2 AT 5PM PT FOR THE LAUNCH OF MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD AND MICHELLE MEE NUTTER'S BOOK, ALLERGIC, WITH RAINA TELGEMEIER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

Please join us on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Year of Wonders: A Novel of...

Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Atlantic Press celebrate the release of Viet Thanh Nguyen's new...

New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers an astonishing feat of imagination, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco—a city leveled by quake...

celebrating the publication of Courtney Zoftness' new memoir Spilt Milk published by McSweeney's ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City...

Patricia Holt, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, continues her popular book group, “Contemporary Classics.” A book should stand the test of time...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. “When...