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  • Natalie Devora at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

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  • Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    discussing Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment published by City Lights Books "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no...

  • Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2019 - 7:00PM A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship...

  • Claudia Castro Luna

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception Tuesday April 9, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Reception at 5:15 for newly admitted graduate students, followed...

  • Poets Michael Brownstein an Julien Poirier

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Poet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book, Let’s Burn the Flags of All Nations, includes provocative poems such as “After Patriarchy Collapses and Capitalism Crumbles,”...

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  • Poet Michael Brownstein

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tuesday, Apr 09, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  The basement at Moe's 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Website Poet and novelist Michael Brownstein’s new book, Let’s Burn...

  • Rachel Howard Book Launch

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

    Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel, The Risk of Us. Praise for The Risk of Us “An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel...

  • Freud’s Bar – – details to come!

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Wednesday April 10 6:30pm Ad Event EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud's Bar on Wednesday, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. Are you...

  • A Fire Story: Brian Fies

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley

    Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist whose past projects include the graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and...

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  • Book Club

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls...

  • Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • Leslie Carol Roberts

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

    Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book, Here Is Where I Walk. About Here is Where I Walk It is in the Presidio of San Francisco,...

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A “Weekly” Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series In celebration of National Poetry Month, our flagship reading series...

  • Lori Ostlund

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Lori Ostlund’s first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World, won the Flannery O’Connor Award, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the...

  • Timothy Hampton

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present an evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton's new book Bob Dylan's Poetics: How...

  • Patrice Vecchione, Ink Knows No Borders

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book, Ink Knows No Borders, a poetry collection that brings...

  • Translator Marian Schwartz

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

      Marian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian, The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. About The...

  • The Poetry Center at SF State Presents: Feliz Lucia Molina

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Feliz' latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California, Crystal Marys is a field study of...

  • Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    discussing Serpell's new novel The Old Drift, an electrifying debut that has already garnered three starred advance reviews and accolades from multiple writers. "Recalling the work of...

  • Big Ideas Reading Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"?...

  • Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Ron Campbell, Grace Grafton, and Sarah Haba, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • The Diesel Readers Book Group — In the Midst of Winter

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Monday, April 15th 7:00pm East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, on Monday April 15th at...

  • Herbert Marcuse:Philosopher of Utopia

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Monday, Apr 15, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  The basement at Moe's 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Website Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a little-known German scholar when...