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  • January 2021

  • Sat 9

    Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha

    January 9, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON...

  • Sat 9

    Poetry & Short Stories Reading

    January 9, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize), Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories), and...

  • Sun 10

    Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore–virtually

    January 10, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Discussing Mason's most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California...

  • Mon 11

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    January 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • Mon 11

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    January 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • Tue 12

    Conversations with Authors – Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)

    January 12, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Gretchen Rubin's most recent release, Outer Order, Inner Calm is a lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and,...

  • Tue 12

    Gina Apostol

    January 12, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award–winning novel Revolution According...

  • Wed 13
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    Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown

    January 13, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is...

  • Wed 13

    Robert Jones Jr. – The Prophets (Virtual Event)

    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the...

  • Wed 13

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents

    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He'll be in conversation...

  • Wed 13

    Madeleine Watts

    January 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel, The Inland Sea (Catapult). "Full of heart and disquiet, astute and precise, almost savage in its eloquence, illuminated about...

  • Thu 14

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar

    January 14, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 14

    VIRTUAL: Mary Ziegler with Becca Andrews / Abortion and the Law in America: Roe V. Wade to the Present

    January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present....

  • Thu 14

    Kevin Begos in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    discussing Tasting the Past: One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines. "Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins...

  • Thu 14

    Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt in Conversation–virtually

    January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape. Every Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same...

  • Sat 16

    Kate Messner on Instagram Live IGTV

    January 16, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

    reading her timely book The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents, an inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and...

  • Sat 16

    Virtual Event: Michelle Gallen and Crissy Van Meter

    January 16, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

  • Sun 17

    Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar

    January 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)...

  • Sun 17

    Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond with Whitney Leigh Morris – What’s Your Story? (Virtual Event)

    January 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Transformational questions for personal and collective change. In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to...

  • Tue 19

    Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

    January 19, 2021 @ 9:00 am - March 9, 2021 @ 11:00 am PST
    Virtual

    Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...

    Free
  • Tue 19

    Paraic O’Donnell with Helen MacDonald – The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)

    January 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world...

  • Tue 19

    Steven Kotler – The Art of Impossible (Virtual Event)

    January 19, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

    Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs...

  • Tue 19

    This is Now: Simon Winchester

    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...

  • Tue 19

    Panel: Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past, Looking Toward the Future

    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST
    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    Authors, S.A. Cosby, Kellye Garrett, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of...

    Free
  • Tue 19

    Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters

    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event Floaters MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has...

    $1 – $20
  • Tue 19

    The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club

    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K....

  • Wed 20

    Virtual Event: James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine

    January 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMES J. SIEGEL, BEN KLINE, AND CAROLINE EARLEYWINE READ FROM THEIR WORK TO CELEBRATE SIEGEL'S LATEST COLLECTION, THE GOD OF...

  • Thu 21

    Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay

    January 21, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel, WIDER THAN THE SKY, with author...

  • Thu 21

    Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    January 21, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    discussing (with wine) Lethem's latest novel The Arrest, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car....

  • Fri 22

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference

    January 22, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...

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