• Kaya Press @ City Lights

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

    Kaya Press @ City Lights Sesshu Foster reads from City of the Future Max Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges about City of the Future Twenty-one years after Kaya Press...

    Free
  • Curtis White

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

    Curtis White   reading from his new novel LACKING CHARACTER from Melville House The man Paul Auster called "a master of bewitchments" and a founder of...

    Free
  • Sarah Andersen / Herding Cats

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith welcomes Sarah Andersen back for her new book, Herding Cats! Please join us. More #relatable comics from Sarah’s Scribbles!   Please note: this is a free event,...

    Free
  • Pandemonium Press: Whan That Aprile . . .

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featured readers: Judy Wells, Kirk Lumpkin, Mary Mackey, Rafael Jesús González. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open...

    Free
  • Elaine Castillo

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

    Elaine Castillo discusses her debut novel, America Is Not The Heart. Praise for America Is Not The Heart “Elaine Castillo’s entrancing and magnificent debut is set to...

    Free
  • Facades Everywhere

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    On Thursday, April 4, 2018, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers, Devi S. Laskar, Claudia H. Long,Crystal Jo Reiss, and a surprise poet/novelist, will...

    Free
  • Shanthi Sekaran

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Her latest novel, Lucky Boy, was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors' Pick.

  • Matthew Zapruder

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bear and Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry.

  • Presidio Live – Western Hemisphereans

    Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA

    PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on...

    Free
  • Presidio Live | Literary Reading: Western Hemisphereans

    Presidio Officers' Club 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and...

    Free
  • Henri Cole

    Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United States

    City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics' Institute Library and NYRB present Henri Cole celebrating the release of   Orphic Paris from New York Review...

    $15
  • Dan Bransfield / Pizzapedia

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield'sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet, pizza (obviously), and a cash bar! A book...

    Free
  • Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work

    Maude Fife Room, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth, with readings and tributes, at UC Berkeley's Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion, poet...

    Free
  • NoViolet Bulawayo, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction, reading

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of...

    Free
  • Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings

    Free
  • Andrea Abi-Karam

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work,The...

    Free
  • Michelle Cruz Gonzales

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College, Gonzales played drums...

    Free
  • Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy

    Rockridge Branch 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the...

    Free
  • Perfectly Queer: National Poetry Month

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

    Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa

    Free
  • Weekday Wanderlust

    Weekday Wanderlust 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Hello Wanderlusters. Mark your calendars for TUESDAY APRIL 10. We have a superb line-up waiting just for you with Julia Scott, John Ellis, and Amanda...

    Free
  • Maw Shein Win

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

    Maw Shein Win   celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...

    Free
  • Rachel Levin

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

    Rachel Levin celebrates the release of her new book Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. About Look Big A humorous...

    Free
  • Emerging Writers Festival

    Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    TUESDAY, APRIL 10 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book Playing Dead: A Journey...

    Free
  • A Talk with The Black Aesthetic

    Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    A Talk with The Black Aesthetic Wednesday / 4.11.18 / 12:00 Free, no ticket needed. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC --- The Black Aesthetic...

    Free
  • This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism

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

    Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, among others, and she...

    Free
  • Caspar Henderson

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

    Caspar Henderson, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Praise...

    Free
  • Meg Wolitzer / The Female Persuasion

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes...

    Free
  • Emerging Writers Festival

    Fromm Hall - FR 120 - Xavier Auditorium, USF 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her...

    Free