The Bindery hosts the launch for Peg Alford Pursell's new book, A Girl Goes into the Forest. She'll be in conversation with Caille Millner, and there will be...
Bruce Conforth discusses his new book, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson. Praise for Up Jumped the Devil “This is the book...
Brandon Brown presents The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions, a uniquely earthbound story of space travel that follows a handful of surviving engineers from the...
Bruce Conforth discusses his new book, Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Rovert Johnson. Praise for Up Jumped the Devil “This is the book...
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Featured reader: Jan Steckel! Open mic to follow. Free and open to the public. Jan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because...
Lily Bernheimer discusses her new book, The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being. About The Shaping of Us Spaces we...
After Hours - Eric Kleinenberg: Palaces for the People Friday, July 19th | 7:00pm Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. Eric Klinenberg (Heat Wave, Fighting...
Award-winning Cuban poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi discusses and signs "The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos." A delightfully choreographed and ultimately...
Lary Bloom discusses his new biography, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas. About Sol LeWitt Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the...
Lary Bloom discusses his new biography, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas. About Sol LeWitt Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of the most influential artists of the...
Charlie Getter & Tom Stolmar Not to be missed!
* Saturday, July 20 ____ Curator: Tongo Eisen-Martin ____ Readers: TBA * Saturday, September 28 100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint...
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...
Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for his new story collection, Raised in Captivity. More information to be announced soon, but please save the date and...
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts...
John Corbett discusses his new book, Pick up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music. Praise for Pick up the Pieces " thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride...
Older women: Wise enough to tell the truth about sex – what they want, what they've done, what makes them hot. Dirty Old Women celebrates...
John Corbett discusses his new book, Pick up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music. Praise for Pick up the Pieces " thoroughly enjoyable—and gorgeously written—joy ride...
Cyberwar"— or cyber-anything, for that matter— has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it's not fiction, it's certainly not entertainment, and - as...
Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel, Mostly Dead Things with Esmé Weijun Wang. Praise for Mostly Dead Things “Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and...
Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel, Mostly Dead Things with Esmé Weijun Wang. Praise for Mostly Dead Things “Mostly Dead Things is one of the strangest and funniest and...
The Bindery hosts Sarah Rose Etter for the launch of her anticipated debut novel, The Book of X. She’ll be joined byTrisha Low and Tommy Pico. A surreal exploration of...
Student Showcase readings "Write From The Gut" featuring our faculty, alumni and current students reading works in progress. With your host Paul Corman-Roberts
Kenneth E. Hartman's sentence to live without parole was recently commuted by Governor Jerry Brown after he had spent 35 years in prison. He is...
Tucker Malarkey returns to present Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon, the story of Guido Rahr, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly...
Last year, former Benicia Unified School District groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson won a settlement for the cancer he got as a result of using Round Up...
Photographer B.A. Van Sise discusses his new book, Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry. Also featuring readings by poets Jane Hirshfield and Dorianne Laux. Praise...
The End of the End of the World Literary Café Presents: Benjamin Heim Shephard and Lynn Breedlove Hosted by James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement (AK...
Sarah Parcak discusses her new book, Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past. Praise for Archaeology From Space "This book is so much more...