Black Love Night of Poetry and Poetry Workshop!
Strut 470 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoin us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at...
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Bikes to Books Winter Beer Social
Bender's Bar and Grill 806 So. Van Ness Avenue, San FranciscoJoin Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice, the creators of literary bicycle tour “Bikes to Books,” for an evening of socializing, beer drinking, and map chat—the...
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David Talbot / Between Heaven and Hell
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAcclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books...
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Ian Haney López
Kehilla Synagogue 1300 Grand Ave., Piedmont, CA, United Statespresens Merge Left:Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. "The book for anyone interested in cross-racial solidarity on behalf of racial and economic justice...
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Fifteen Year Anniversary at Books Inc. Alameda
Books Inc. Alameda 1344 Park Street, Alameda, CA, United StatesJoin us at Books Inc. Alameda to celebrate 15 years of serving our community! Come for snacks, activities for the kids, music, and fun with...
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Tom Lutz: Born Slippy
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesTom Lutz discusses his new novel, Born Slippy. Praise for Born Slippy "A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the...
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Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras
African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesIngrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras' novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf...
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Readings from ZYZZYVA’s Bay Area Issue
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS celebrates the latest issue of their dear friends at ZYZZYVA on Friday, January 24! ZYZZYVA dedicates its most recent issue to the...
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Robert Hass – Summer Snow
Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United StatesA major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, Robert Hass A new volume of poetry from Robert...
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Diverse Voices from Civil Liberties United
Oakland Center for Spiritual Living 5000 Clarewood Dr., Oakland, CA, United StatesProse, poetry and artwork from the Civil Liberties United anthology, featuring Lorraine Bonner, Sue Granzella, Anahita Miller, Sridevi Ramanathan & Shizue Seigel, The anthology includes...
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Speak, easy Vol. 12
Joyce Gordon Gallery 406 14th Street, Oakland, CA, United StatesAn artist showcase and open mic night honoring the voices of black women.
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Saturday Write-In!
Farley's East 33 Grand Avenue, Oakland , CA, United StatesCome Write With Us! Novelists, poets, nonfiction writers, artists, all genre/ genrequeer/ no genre. We'll bring a few writing prompts/ poems to help start you...
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Saturday Night Special presents: Out of the Dark
Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesWelcome back! I'm excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by...
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Silent Book Club SF
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesBring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
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Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReadings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...
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Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAnna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...
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Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...
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Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United StatesThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...
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Bob Perelman, Norman Fischer, James Sherry
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYNorman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...
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Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCrissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...
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Journalism and Politics in the Corn Belt: Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan
Sibley Auditorium University of California, Berkeley, Bechtel Engineering Center, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper published in Storm...
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Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, SF Main Library 100 Larkin St, San FranciscoSan Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...
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Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesdiscussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...
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#we music – a talk and performance series of queer perspectives
ProArts 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café), Oakland, CAPlease join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
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Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105
Rebound Bookstore 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesOur first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...
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Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesLizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...
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We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race, Resegregation, and Public Art
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesJeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016, it was named...
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Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
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Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesin conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...
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Orin & Manjula Martin, Fruit Trees for Every Garden
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United StatesJust in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...
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