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  • May 2020
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

    A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...

    $1 – $5
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro

    This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...

  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles

    discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28
    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee

    Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda

    During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    photo of Brenda Hillman
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman

    Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland

    Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    front cover of Home Baked
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

    Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...

  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...

  • Fri 29
    May 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...

  • Fri 29
    Literary Pop!
    May 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Literary Pop!

    Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...

    Free
  • Sat 30
    May 30, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Eastwind (virtual) Book Club

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...

  • Sat 30
    May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Saturday Night Special presents: Escape Online

    SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...

    Free
  • June 2020
  • Mon 1
    June 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners

    The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san francisco

    Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...

    Free
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves

    Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...

    Free – $5
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends

    Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Sasha Abramsky – Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar

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

    Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    America’s Most Unusual Marriage: Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein

    Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...

    Free
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System

    So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...

  • Wed 3
    June 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi

    Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi celebrating Ali Araghi's new novel The Immortals of Tehran published by Melville House --------- This is a virtual...

  • Wed 3
    June 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Zeyn Joukhadar – The Thirty Names of Night

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

    Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new...

  • Wed 3
    June 3, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew

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

    Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. Praise for Cuppy and Stew "CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the...

    Free
  • Thu 4
    June 4, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    We Are the Voices & City Lights Live Present: Alli Warren + Cedar Sigo

    celebrating the release of Alli Warren's new poetry book Little Hill published by City Lights Event co-presented by We Are the Voices This is a virtual...

  • Thu 4
    June 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes...

    $1 – $5
  • Thu 4
    June 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Meredith Talusan in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan / Fairest: A Memoir

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She'll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in...

  • Thu 4
    June 4, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.

    Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. an online community event for enlivening...

    $10 – $50
  • Thu 4
    logo for The Racket
    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    The Racket Weekly : A Necessary Distraction

    The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION, JUNE 4th, 7PM ZOOM LINK TO COME You know what's good right now? Distraction. We know it looks...

    Free
  • Thu 4
    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Author Alex George Discussing THE PARIS HOURS | GGP Online Zoom Chat

    Please join us on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George, discussing his new historical fiction...

  • Thu 4
    image for Eves at the Beat
    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Eves At The Virtual Beat

    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...

    Free
  • Fri 5
    June 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    Bill McKibben, Sy Montgomery, Jennifer Ackerman, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B

    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...

    Free
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