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  • June 2020
  • Tue 23
    June 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills is Gold

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes debut novelist C Pam Zhang for an online event about her new book, How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Zhang will be...

  • Wed 24
    June 24, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    Rebecca Skloot And Ed Yong For East Bay Booksellers

    Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

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  • Wed 24
    June 24, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Donovan Hohn, Jordan Kisner and Jaswinder Bolina

    Join us on Zoom on Wednesday June 24th at 5:00pm PDT for Donovan Hohn discussing his new essay collection The Inner Coast with Jordan Kisner. Zoom Login Please click the link...

  • Thu 25
    June 25, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Alexandra Petri in conversation with Alexis Coe / Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri for her second book, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays. She'll be in conversation with Alexis Coe (You Never...

  • Thu 25
    June 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    John Freeman with DA Powell

    John Freeman celebrates his new collection of poetry The Park published by Copper Canyon Press he will be joined by DA Powell reading from his...

  • Thu 25
    A Pretty Little Wilderness- Be About It Press Book Release Party
    June 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    A Pretty Little Wilderness: Be About It Press Book Release Party

    We're going to gather to celebrate the release of Cassandra Dallett's new book, A Pretty Little Wilderness, out on Be About It Press June 2020!...

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  • Thu 25
    June 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Uche Nduka at City Lights Books

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

    Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 published by City Lights Books From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems...

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  • Thu 25
    June 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Zach Norris, We Keep Us Safe

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, for an online event to discuss...

  • Thu 25
    Literary Speakeasy 5-year anniversary celebration
    June 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Literary Speakeasy 5-year anniversary celebration

    Literary Speakeasy if five years old! So let’s have a virtual celebration and raise money for LYRIC, a great charity located in the heart of...

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  • Fri 26
    June 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Forward! Farnaz Fatemi, Ingrid Browning & Lisa Ortiz

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with Farnaz Fatemi, Ingrid Browning, and Lisa Ortiz, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post.  This...

  • Sat 27
    June 27, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Redress: Book Talk with Author John Tateishi

    Saturday, June 27 at 3pm RSVP with Eventbrite to access the Zoom link. Author John Tateishi discusses his book, Redress: The Inside Story of the...

  • Sat 27
    June 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Saturday Night Special, A “Summer” Open Mic

    Summer is officially here and SNS wants to celebrate! Your challenge this month is to write about SUMMER. Perhaps you want to capture the chaos...

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  • Sun 28
    June 28, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Gina Rae La Cerva: Author discusses her book, Feasting Wild, with David George Haskell

    Gina Rae La Cerva discusses her new book, Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food (Greystone Books) with David George Haskell. This event will be...

  • Sun 28
    June 28, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Book Club: Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! June's book club selection is Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim. The book contains unique recipes....

  • Tue 30
    June 30, 2020 @ 7:30 am - 9:30 am PDT

    City Lights Authors on the Road: Whistleblower at the CIA – Melvin A. Goodman

    Speaker: Melvin Goodman, PhD, Retired CIA and State Department Analyst, Author The whistleblower is essential to congressional oversight, investigative journalism, and the public's awareness of...

  • Tue 30
    June 30, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Bonnie Tsui & Jennifer Steinhauer

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...

  • Tue 30
    June 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way

    Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, is delighted to welcome bestselling author Jennifer Ackerman (The Genius of Birds) for...

  • Tue 30
    June 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Oona Out of Order | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Margarita Montimore's new novel, OONA...

  • July 2020
  • Mon 6
    July 6, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Aimee Bender, The Butterfly Lampshade

    Bookshop welcomes bestselling author Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake) for an online reading and discussion of her first novel in ten years, The...

  • Mon 6
    July 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Lane Moore

    Join us on Monday, July 6 at 6pm PDT when Lane Moore joins us to discuss her book How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even...

  • Mon 6
    July 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer (Online)

    This event is online. We are thrilled to celebrate with Kepler's favorite Daniel Mason for his new book, A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth. Join...

  • Mon 6
    July 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Virtual Quiet Lightning!

    Leah Mueller » Diana Donovan » Elizabeth Burch-Hudson » Christopher Dizon » Karisma Rodriguez » Halim Madi » Paolo Bicchieri » Grey Rosado » Rhea Dhanbhoora » Richelle Lee Slota | Jennifer Ng » Nora Boxer » Steven Hill » Steven Gray » Lilian Wang » D.S. Black » Caroline Goodwin » Noah Sanders » Kelly Gray » Amy Smith » Dawn Angelicca Barcelona We’ll...

  • Tue 7
    July 7, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Meredith O’Brien & Leslie Gray Streeter

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during the...

  • Tue 7
    July 7, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan

    Join us on Tuesday, July 7 at 12pm PDT when Merlin Sheldrake discusses his book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds &Shape Our...

  • Tue 7
    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price

    We’re thrilled to be launching The Crow Rider, Kalyn Josephson's thrilling conclusion to the epic Storm Crow duology that follows a fallen princess as she...

  • Tue 7
    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Ben Ehrenreich

    celebrating his new book Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time from Counterpoint Press This is a virtual event that will be...

  • Tue 7
    July 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Molly Ball, Pelosi

    Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with national political journalist Molly Ball to discuss her book, Pelosi, an intimate, fresh...

  • Wed 8
    July 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Borderlands Books hosts Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, to talk about new book

    Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The Angel of the Crows, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and...

  • Wed 8
    July 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Thea Matthews and Maw Shein Win / Unearth [The Flowers]

    The Bindery hosts Thea Matthews for her first full-length book, Unearth , the first single-author title from local reading series and small press Red Light...

    Free
  • Thu 9
    flier for Power to the Poets: Uproar
    July 9, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Power to the Poets: Uproar

    Please join us on Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern for POWER TO THE POETS: UPROAR! Via FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1869493649860368/?active_tab=about Hosts: Amos White...

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