Mexican visual artist who writes, Verónica Gerber Bicecci discusses her novel Empty Set, with critically acclaimed translator Christina MacSweeney, who brought it into English. A...
"Ekphrastic poems focus on works of art—usually paintings, photographs, or statues. And modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and...
Diana Khoi Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection, Ghost Of. Also featuring readings by fellow poets, Jane Wong, Ingrid Rojas, Diana Arterian and Juliana Xuan Wang. About Ghost Of...
Under the Blue Moon of March, on the final night of Mes Internacional de la Mujer, Lunada is honored to host award winning internationally renowned...
Richard A. Walker celebrating his new book Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay...
Readings by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Kara Krewer, Kim Magowan, and Brynn Saito Hosted by Peter Kline Poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate Marcelo Hernandez Castillo...
Poetry reading and conversation with Javier Zamora. Meet one of the most important younger poets emerging in the United States, Javier Zamora. Author of the...
Tananarive Due is a screenwriter, award-winning novelist, and leading voice in black speculative fiction. Her most recent book, Ghost Summer, won a British Fantasy Award and...
Kaya Press @ City Lights Sesshu Foster reads from City of the Future Max Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges about City of the Future Twenty-one years after Kaya Press...
Curtis White reading from his new novel LACKING CHARACTER from Melville House The man Paul Auster called "a master of bewitchments" and a founder of...
Booksmith welcomes Sarah Andersen back for her new book, Herding Cats! Please join us. More #relatable comics from Sarah’s Scribbles! Please note: this is a free event,...
Featured readers: Judy Wells, Kirk Lumpkin, Mary Mackey, Rafael Jesús González. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open...
Elaine Castillo discusses her debut novel, America Is Not The Heart. Praise for America Is Not The Heart “Elaine Castillo’s entrancing and magnificent debut is set to...
On Thursday, April 4, 2018, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers, Devi S. Laskar, Claudia H. Long,Crystal Jo Reiss, and a surprise poet/novelist, will...
Her latest novel, Lucky Boy, was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors' Pick.
Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bear and Why Poetry, a book of prose about poetry.
PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on...
In Presidio Live, experience live music, theatre, dance, film, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and...
City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics' Institute Library and NYRB present Henri Cole celebrating the release of Orphic Paris from New York Review...
The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield'sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet, pizza (obviously), and a cash bar! A book...
Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth, with readings and tributes, at UC Berkeley's Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion, poet...
Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale and Liz Laribee! It's going to be...
Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, "I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of...
Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students, followed by readings
Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work,The...
Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College, Gonzales played drums...
What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the...
Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Aja Couchois Duncan, Luna Merbruja, and Lourdes Figueroa
Hello Wanderlusters. Mark your calendars for TUESDAY APRIL 10. We have a superb line-up waiting just for you with Julia Scott, John Ellis, and Amanda...