This will be our last Salon until the fall, so please do join us for a wonderful night of literature, friends, snacks, and drinks.
Proceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
Brendan Jones reads from his debut novel, The Alaskan Laundry.
Event curators: Rebecca Foust and Melissa Stein. Music and sound effects mixed by Franklin Walther of Mill Valley.
Donations will be called for throughout the evening, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Wine will be available.
Spring 2016 edition
Admission is FREE. Wine, Lagunitas beer, and snacks will be served.
Join students and teachers for a selection of readings from work produced through the UC Berkeley Extension program.
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around.
Readings + a solo exhibition
The acclaimed author of Red Hook Road, Bad Mother, Daughter’s Keeper, and the “Mommy Track Mysteries” series joins us at the Berkeley Public Library North Branch to talk about her latest novel, Love and Treasure.
Discussing the process of writing.
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Carr’s poetry collection, WHOSOEVER HAS LET A MINOTAUR ENTER THEM, OR A SONNET.
Elizabeth Alford has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with poetry; but in the wake of her graduation from CSU East Bay, she recently announced that they are now going steady (much to everyone’s relief)
Writer Kevin Killian reads from and discusses his work.
Reading followed by artist Q&A. Did we mention there will be cookies?
Followed by open mic.
Antonia Hayes talks about her debut novel, Relativity, with Sophie Cunningham.
MariNaomi presents Turning Japanese, an illustrated memoir that chronicles her experiences working at illegal hostess bars from San Jose to Tokyo.
Milvia Street art and literary journal first came out in 1989 from Vista Community College. We're celebrating the newest issue with a reading by Diana Arnold, Paul Elias Taylor, Lark Omura, Raymond Richard, Patricia France, and others.
Come say goodbye to us and help us kick off the tour with an open mic event!
Poet, playwright, and hip-hop artist Kate Tempest will read from her debut novel, The Bricks That Built the Houses.
Reading from their most recently published books.
The audience will get a sneak peek at the origins of the Underground Comix scene of the 1960s-70s, and how it stimulated the Latino comics movement.
Proceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
Event is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends, bring something to drink and/or nosh on, and get ready for an epic evening of live performances by local artists.
Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. as we host C. Dale Young and Rick Barot, who will be reading from their collections of poetry Halo and Chord, respectively.
Free Reading!
Pegasus Books presents a reading with "Daughter's Tongue Coalition" - a local women's writing collective.
Martin Seay will talk about The Mirror Thief (Melville House), one of the most talked-about debut novels of 2016, with Robin Sloan.