• Ann Harleman Reading from TELL ME, SIGNORA

    Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA.  Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...

    Free
  • Day of Remembrance with author Duncan Ryuken Williams

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

    Day of Remembrance: Duncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams...

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  • THERE 32

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    NEXT THERE: THERE 32  will be Saturday, February 22, 2020, at East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland, guests TBA. THERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco...

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  • Sean Negus and Caroline Goodwin at Alley Cat Books

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

    Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin).  

    Free
  • Silent Book Club SF

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Bring 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...

    Free
  • SF in SF with Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen

    American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen, in conversation with Bay Area writer,...

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  • In Search of My Robot: Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity

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

    Robots, like any technology, are not “objective” or “universal”; instead, machines reveal the process of social formation. This talk by poet, scholar, and new media...

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  • John Sayles at City Lights Books

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

    Yellow Earth from Haymarket Books Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All...

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  • Contemporary Writers Series: Aria Aber

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

    Aria Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut book, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry...

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  • Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax

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

    Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry Good Boys published by Tin House Books In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability,...

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  • John Sayles: Yellow Earth

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award...

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  • JoAnne Silver Jones, Headstrong at Bookshop Santa Cruz

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

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes JoAnne Silver Jones for a discussion and signing of her new book, Headstrong. After a sudden assault by a stranger left Jones with severe traumatic...

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  • Emily Nemens: The Cactus League

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

    Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. Praise for The Cactus League “Emily Nemens's magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail,...

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  • the system must be tried

    Readers Bookstore Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Francisco, CA, United States

    SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.

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  • Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Around the World

    World Affaris Auditorium 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA, United States

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Conference of Women in Beijing, but what kind of progress has really been made? One billion...

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  • Dean A. Strang in conversation with Lara Bazelon

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

    Booksmith hosts Dean A. Strang for his new book, Keep the Wretches in Order: America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the...

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  • Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold

    Soda Center, Claeys Lounge SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA, United States

    DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: Soda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View a...

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  • Karen Sherman – Brick By Brick

    Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Karen Sherman, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012...

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  • FREE OFFSITE EVENT: Amitav Ghosh, “Unmuting the Brutes”

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

    The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series, featuring Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting...

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  • EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM

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

    During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

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  • Lit Starts: Signing+Writing Workshop with Author Constance Hale

    A Great Good Place for Books 6120 La Salle Ave., Oakland, California

    Please Join Us on Thursday, February 27 at 7 PM for a Practicing the Craft: Write Character, Dialogue and Action with Constance Hale The Writers...

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  • Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation

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

    celebrating the release of Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind Edited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman published by Semiotext(e) Books, distributed by The MIT...

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  • Jamel Brinkley

    SJSU MLK Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA, United States

    The Center for Literary Arts is excited to welcome author of A Lucky Man and finalist for the National Book Award, Jamel Brinkley in conversation with SJSU’s...

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  • Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer, reading and in conversation

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

    Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event,...

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