During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...
Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...
The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series welcomes Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press, dedicated to...
Parents and Children, Hope and Despair: Three Novels Join Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy), Rachel Howard (The Risk...
Esti Skloot discusses her new book, Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage. About Uprooted When pregnant Esther--a young, adventurous, British-born Israeli--follows her new husband, Steve, to...
The Bindery hosts San Francisco poet Heidi Van Horn for her debut collection, Belated Poem. Reading with her are poet Sarah Heady and fiction writer Nancy Au. Please join us! Belated...
Heather Christle discusses her new book, The Crying Book. Praise for The Crying Book "In The Crying Book, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of...
Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik at The Bindery.
November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. Join us...
Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to...
Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university...
Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry About Threshold Delivery Threshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at...
About A Marvelous Life The comprehensive biography of STAN LEE, father of SPIDER-MAN and THE AVENGERS, beloved comic book writer and editor, and former president and...
Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold...
We had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago, and this history of the...
Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the...
Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 7pm Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas Maurya Simon is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including Speaking in Tongues, a nominee...
Thursday, November 14 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center Book Award Reading, co-sponsored this year by...
Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go...
Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press,...
Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart. Praise for Native Country of the Heart "I love A Native Country of the Heart's forthright blending...
WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to...
Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize,...
Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo...
In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation...
The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in...
To celebrate our third year of existence we've decided to tap the senses, to trod upon that which is most audible, to get a bunch...
Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019 Joyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens, published by Nomadic Press. Her...
Join us for the East Bay release of "Disasterama", Alvin Orloff's fantabulous new memoir of '90's SF wild club kid, AIDS-activism, agitprop performance, and homocore...
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes &...