• Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times

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

    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...

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  • Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas

    Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    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...

  • Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley

    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...

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  • Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    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,...

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  • Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart

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

    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...

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  • Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    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...

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  • MFA in Writing Reading Series – Jamel Brinkley

    USF Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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,...

  • Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

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  • David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

    UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

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  • Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

    Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

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  • The Racket #36 : SOUND

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

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  • Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

    Poetry Express 1585 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

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  • East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

    The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    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...

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  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Writing Studio @ CCA 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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 &...

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  • Savannah Shange

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

    discussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...

  • Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    AUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...

  • Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want

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

    Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...

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  • Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST MARILYN CHIN's new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said,...

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  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...

  • Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose , CA, United States

    Feature: Linda Lappin Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361 Free and open to the public. Linda...

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  • Jerome Rothenberg

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

    celebrating two new books The President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press The Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally...

  • Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games

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

    Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including, Busted!, a game from the 1970s about trying to start...

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  • The Best Small Fictions 2019

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

    Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody, Natalie Hernandez, Joy Lanzendorfer, Kim Magowan, J.L. Montavon, and Kara...

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  • Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart (and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino's new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. A soulful,...

  • Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CA

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Donations will be...

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  • A World Without Wars – Part 1

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY MAHNAZ BADIHIAN JIM NORMINGTON JOHN CURL BARBARA PASCHKE NELLIE WONG RAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ LYNNE BARNES...

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