• Tell Your Story, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    In this workshop, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write, draw, cut, paste,...

    Free
  • Pam Houston, Deep Creek

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir, Deep Creek:...

    Free
  • InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes), Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent), Thea Matthews, Ant Fraser Fujinaga, and Albert Alexander, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe, 3359 26th Street,...

  • Analicia Sotelo

    San Jose Museum of Art 110 Market St, San José, CA, United States

    Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art THURSDAY February 7, 2019 7PM...

  • Johannes Lichtman

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

    Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel, Such Good Work. Praise for Such Good Work “I honestly can't think of a novel I would more want to...

    Free
  • Alexandra Bracken and Tamara Ireland Stone

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Alexandra Bracken is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, (the movie was released in August of this...

    Free
  • Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

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

    Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy discuss their new book, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Your Emotions At Work. Praise for No Hard...

    Free
  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

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

    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...

  • Poverty Scholarship 101

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

    with Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and friends Poverty Scholarship - Poor People-led Theory, Art , Words and Tears Across Mama Earth is a revolutionary poor people-led theory...

  • A MOVEABLE FEAST

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

    Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We'll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you...

  • The Diesel Readers Book Group – – Radio Free Vermont

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. As the host of Radio...

  • Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman

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

    Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of  Death, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest...

    Free
  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...

  • Joyce Carol Oates

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

    reading from here new novel Hazards of Time Travel published by Harper Collins An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints...

  • Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

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

    Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. Praise for Wild Geese Sorrow “Jeffrey Thomas...

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  • Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club

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

    Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical, thought-provoking contemporary...

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  • Freud’s Bar – – All the Jazz w/Henry Markman, MD

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud's Bar on Wednesday, February 13th at 6:30pm. This week Henry Markmanwill present All That Jazz: The Therapy...

  • Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    The New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl explores the lives of four siblings in this ambitious and absorbing novel in the vein of Commonwealth and The Interestings. “Tara Conklin...

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  • Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    We’re really excited to host two amazing, accomplished, dynamic writers and thinkers, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC where...

  • Reema Zaman

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

    Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir, I Am Yours. Praise for I Am Yours “Tender, fierce, compassionate, and wise . . . a moving story about...

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  • Poem Jam

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, James Cagney, and Christine No for a special Valentine's Day poetry jam. The Main...

  • Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner

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

        reading from new work Keith Scribner reads from Old Newgate Road published by Alfred Knopf Tom Barbash reads from The Dakota Winters published by Ecco...

  • Robin LaFevers with Sabaa Tahir

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Robin LaFevers’ wonderful His Fair Assassins series tells the story of assassin nuns in Medieval France and is a store favorite. We are thrilled to...

    Free