How do you make and keep friendships of a lifetime? Angie Coiro interviews Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. About this...
discussing his new book Monkey Boy: a novel published by Grove Atlantic Press This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...
PRESENTED BY THE RUBY JOIN US TUESDAY, MAY 11 AT 6PM PT WHEN LINDA RUI FENG IS JOINED BY MENG JIN TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, SWIMMING BACK TO...
Please join us on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO...
Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book, Animal, Vegetable,...
Booksmith and Mother Jones present Your Computer is on Fire, an evening of conversation between Mother Jones data and interactives editor Sinduja Rangarajan and two editors of the new anthology Your...
Join us on Wednesday, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections, Water/Music and So...
A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in...
Litquake's Epicenter: A Virtual Series Bringing writers from around the world to your computer screen Co-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers Litquake is thrilled...
Since the onset of the global pandemic in 2020, isolation has been, for good or bad, a major feature of life for many people across...
Virtual Event 5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET Join us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy, a...
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Lilly Dancyger for her debut, Negative Space: A Memoir. She'll be joined in conversation by Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana,...
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and...
Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls &...
Please join us on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for an online author chat with Jessica Anya Blau discussing her novel, MARY JANE....
Robert C. Ritchie will be in conversation with Gary Griggs about Ritchie's fascinating new book, The Lure of the Beach: A Global History—a chronicle of humanity's history with...
The stress, conflict, and crises of the outer world are a signal: the time has come to awaken your inner shaman. However, you don't need...
Join us on Friday, May 14 at 6pm PT when Kristin Hersh is joined by Black Francis to discuss her latest book, Seeing Sideways: A...
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...
Jeff VanderMeer joins Rikki Ducornet for a conversation about her new novel, Trafik (Coffee House Press). “Surrealism meets space opera in Trafik, Rikki Ducornet’s startlingly original look at a...
Bestselling author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón about Alvarez's most...
Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival. A presentation of readings by...
Please join The Poetry Project and City Lights as we celebrate and remember Michael McClure, poet and beloved friend. Featuring readings and remembrances from: Ammiel Alcalay, David Brazil, Garrett Caples, Francesco Clemente, David...
On Tuesday May 18th, the Lone Glen series will feature writers Donna de la Perrière, Anna Maria Hong, and Christine Hume. Join us on zoom...
Join us on Tuesday, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel, One Kind Favor, with Peter Orner on Zoom! Zoom...
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Norman Fischer's new book, When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life...
We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...
TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author John Green and special guest Sarah Green will discuss John's new collection of personal essays, Anthropocene Reviewed, adapted from his critically acclaimed...
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Joseph Fink and Meg Bashwiner for The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story. This event is free and...
reading from The Window Seat: Notes From a Life In Motion published by Grove Press ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted...