Author Betty Reid Soskin shares insights about her memoir, Sign My Name To Freedom, as part of Independent Bookstore Day and the Bay Area Book Festival at...
Join us for a night of bringing characters to life! Sarah C. Jiménez’s young adult novel, Almost Butterflies, follows the lives of three teenage cousins on...
Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Rohan DaCosta's first full-length photography / poetry collection, The Edge of Fruitvale! It's...
Spring is in the air and other clichés, and people are swiping right and left like crazy! Whether you’re single or coupled or thrupled up...
More Baseball Poetry from San Francisco Poets Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam! When Monday, 4/30/2018, 4:00 -...
Re-Assembling Hope: Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Dacher Keltner, Dan Kammen, Shannon Jackson and Friends of the Bay Area Book Festival Monday / 4.30.18 / 6:30 *Tickets...
For the second year, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda....
The Bindery is thrilled to host an evening with Nikki McClure. Please join us for a discussion and special presentation of The Great Chicken Escape! A...
Rodrigo Fresán discusses his new novel, The Bottom of the Sky. Praise for Rodrigo Fresán "It’s the book of the future, the book that begins to write itself...
Featured readers: Terry Lucas, Jan Steckel, Dennis Bernstein, Barbara West. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic...
One of the year’s liveliest events!
One of the year’s liveliest events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well...
Join us for the final event of The Poetry Center's Spring 2018 season: an evening of reading and performance in celebration of San Francisco-based and...
Translator Elisabeth Jaquette discusses her translation of Donia Maher’s graphic novel, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk. This “fabulous noir poem” has been simply described as “the...
The Bindery hosts Mairghread Scott for her new graphic novel illustrated by Robin Robinson, The City on the Other Side, which is set in early 20th century San Francisco....
Friday, May 4, 2018 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Join us for an evening of readings & writings, words & language, lit & luminosity in toast to...
Legendary cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses Love That Bunch. Praise for Aline Kominsky-Crumb “For over 40 years, Kominsky-Crumb has chronicled agony and ecstasy through brutally honest portraits...
Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK, Seneca Review, The Rumpus, Sideshow World, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working...
Saturday, May 5, 2018 7:00 PM 9:00 PM Poems! By four poets! We're excited to welcome Alicia Mountain's BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the...
Tessa Fontaine discusses her new memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts with Shawn Wen. Praise for The Electric Woman In a word: wow. I...
The Bindery hosts Alicia Mountain reading from High Ground Coward, winner of the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Joining her for a reading and conversation is Brittany Perham (Double Portrait)—join...
Readings by J. Bruce Fuller, Jason Labbe, Raina J. León, and Matt W. Miller Music by Armando Alcaraz Hosted by Peter Kline Armando Alcaraz's original...
curated by Sarah Carpenter and Gracie Malley! submissions are open through Apr 18 StudioToBe , 906 Washington St., Oakland free + all ages
Booksmith hosts the Bay Area launch for Jamel Brinkley and his debut book, A Lucky Man: Stories. Please join us in celebration! In the nine expansive, searching stories of A...
The Bindery hosts Tessa Fontaine for her first book, The Electric Woman, in conversation with Molly Giles. Please join us! This astonishing memoir of pushing past fear follows the author on...
Poets Susan Dambroff and David Hathwell and novelists Anne Raeff and Rob Rosen will read from new work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco's "Contrasts: Poetry...
Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown Rita Bullwinkel celebrates the release of Belly Up: Stories from A Strange Object Press Lisa Brown presents a sneak preview of an...
Institute Of advanced Uncertainty hosts wordWind Chorus: Q.R. Hand Jr. Lewis Jordan Brian Auerbach With Tongo Eisen-Martin Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Doors: 6:30 p.m. Program:7:00 p.m. Free entry...
The Bindery hosts the launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, with editors Grant Faulkner,Lynn Mundell, and Beret Olsen. Please join us! Gems, shards,...
Matt Miller reads from his new poetry collection, The Wounded for the Water. Also featuring readings by Mario Chard and Peter LaBerge. Praise for The Wounded for the...