• Steinbeck Fellows Alumni Night

    THURSDAY March 7, 2019 7PM MLK Library Steinbeck Center, Room 590                             ...

  • Carolyn Burke

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

      celebrating her new book Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury published by Alfred Knopf A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship...

  • Dana Frank, The Long Honduran Night

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in...

  • Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling

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

    Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. Praise for Hannah Versus the Tree  “An heiress to the ancient money of...

  • Word Week Celebrates International Women’s Day

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Word Week celebrates International Women's Day, Friday, May 8 with "Thelma & Louise: Back Behind the Wheel." Remember this iconic road movie directed by Ridley...

    Free
  • Noe Valley Authors Festival

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay, children's book...

    Free
  • Big Ideas Reading Group

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

    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe?...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels

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

    Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us!   “All we do,...

  • Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America

    Noe Valley Library 451 Jersey Street, San Francisco

    Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin,...

    Free
  • Nina Revoyr

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

    reading from her latest novel A Student of History from Akashic Books A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable...

  • Poetry Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. They present poetry readings at...

  • Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled...

    Free
  • Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian

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

    Ali Liebegott reads from The Summer of Dead Birds published by Feminist Press joined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian "A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in...

  • Carolyn Burke, Foursome

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book, Foursome, a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists...

  • Story Time with Christian Robinson

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

    In Another, his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree and store favorite Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful,...

  • Cara Black Takes Us to Paris! reading & talk

    La Boulangerie de Noe 3898 24th Street, San Francisco

    Each year, Noe Valley author Cara Black takes a few lucky readers on a real tour of the Paris she writes about in her bestselling...

    Free
  • Sally Wen Mao

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

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Eleanor Burke, author of A Walker's Sketchbook of San Francisco, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods. About Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods is a...

  • Mesha Maren and Randal O’Wain

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

    Mesha Maren discusses her new novel, Sugar Run with Randal O'Wain. Praise for Sugar Run “A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . ....