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  • October 2020

  • Tue 27

    VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love

    October 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...

  • Tue 27

    Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou

    October 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...

  • Wed 28

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez

    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
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    An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...

    Free
  • Wed 28

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth

    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and...

  • Wed 28

    Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez

    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK...

  • Thu 29

    No Matter What Faith: A Conversation with Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid (Virtual Event)

    October 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College...

  • Thu 29

    Author Talk: Nitasha Tamar Sharma with Andrew Way Leon

    October 29, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will...

  • Thu 29

    VIRTUAL: An Evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa & Kimberly Reyes

    October 29, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new...

  • Thu 29

    EmeryArts Poetry Reading with Sarah Kobrinsky

    October 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
    online

    Enjoy an evening of poetry reading with Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Some ekphrastic poems inspired by the artwork in the 2020 Emeryville Art...

    Free
  • Thu 29

    Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

    October 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his... In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems...

  • Fri 30

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33

    October 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free
  • Fri 30

    Hollister Rand – Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)

    October 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what's going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges...

  • Sat 31

    Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club

    October 31, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman's new novel, ANXIOUS PEOPLE....

  • November 2020

  • Sun 1

    Colossus: Home Reading

    November 1, 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm PST

    Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf

  • Wed 4

    Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams

    November 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election, the State of Democracy, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. Join Orion Magazine and Point Reyes...

  • Thu 5

    Writers Against Trump

    November 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Writers Against Trump Join us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event...

  • Thu 5

    Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong

    November 5, 2020 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm PST

    Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita, author of I-Hotel, Letters to Memory, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong...

  • Thu 5

    Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain

    November 5, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Join us on Thursday, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...

  • Thu 5

    Mauro Javier Cárdenas

    November 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    reading from his new novel Aphasia published by Farrar Straus Giroux Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—"an original, insubordinate novel" (New...

  • Thu 5

    Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books

    November 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great...

  • Sat 7

    Awesome Asian Americans: Children’s Story Time with Oliver Chin

    November 7, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    It's about time - rebel girls, rad women, little leaders, and great guys are Asian American too! Readers will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who...

  • Sat 7

    Ayşegül Savaş Reading

    November 7, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    You must register to attend this event! Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. Ayşegül...

    Free
  • Mon 9

    Bookseller Happy Hour: GIFT PICKS

    November 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Make gift giving easy! Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers share terrific books that make great gifts...

  • Tue 10

    Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    November 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    City Lights in conjunction with Omnidawn Books present Maw Shein Win with Nathalie Khankan and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo reading from new poetry Storage Unit for...

  • Tue 10

    Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    November 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Maw Shein Win and Nathalie Khankan celebrating new Omnidawn Books with Su Hwang and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo        reading from new poetry City Lights celebrates the...

  • Tue 10

    The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan | GGP Online Book Club

    November 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett's new novel, THE...

  • Thu 12

    Virtual Event: Valzhyna Mort and Carolyn Forché

    November 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Join us on Thursday, November 12 at 5pm PDT when Valzhyna Mort discusses her latest collection, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, with Carolyn Forché on Zoom! Zoom Login...

  • Thu 12

    Ling Ma

    November 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PST

    THE EVENT: The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present Ling Ma, author of Severance, on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7PM. ​ The event discussion will be...

    Free
  • Thu 12

    Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #2: Kids’ Books and Graphic Novels

    November 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on kids' books and graphic novels in this second episode...

  • Thu 12

    Diane Cook in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley, Virtually

    November 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Pull up a chair in the comfort of your own home, pour yourself a glass of lovely wine from Vintage, and join the conversation between Diane...

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