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The Funny Sexy Sad council-- Lizzy, Amira, Nate and Melissa-- host these incredible readers, all sharing something that's either hilarious, miserable, or some kind of...

Join us for a virtual--but real!--event to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera's On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press). Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare for a conversation...

with  James Tracy, Hilary Moore, Bill Crossman, and Nancy Kurshan celebrating the release of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's...

Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. You can order a copy...

Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. This will be a virtual event, live-streamed on our Facebook...

Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we will be streaming...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World --------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...

In conversation with Diana Divecha Program will air Tuesday May 26th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a world where...

Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest...

Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed,...

This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...

discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...

During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...

Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...

Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...

Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...

Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...

SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...

Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...