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  • September 2020
  • Tue 15
    September 15, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

    David D. Burns, MD – Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety (Virtual Event)

    Nearly 40 years ago, David D. Burns, MD, a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, wrote Feeling Good, a book with an uplifting message: When you...

  • Tue 15
    September 15, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: American Short Fiction presents Esmé Weijun Wang for Green Apple Books

    Join us on Tuesday, September 15 at 4:30pm PDT when American Short Fiction hosts Esmé Weijun Wang as a part of their My Constellation of 8 series benefitting Green Apple...

  • Tue 15
    September 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Story Time with Drew Daywalt

    We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back Drew Daywalt, (The Day the Crayons Quit), one of our all-time favorite picture book authors, for a...

  • Tue 15
    September 15, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Chasten Buttigieg in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer – I Have Something to Tell You (Virtual Event)

    Join us for the first session in our free Fall Leadership Lecture series in which Chasten Buttigieg joins Pulitzer-Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer to talk about his new memoir, I Have...

  • Tue 15
    September 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Kerri Arsenault in conversation with Kurt Andersen

           discussing two new books Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains, by Kerri Arsenault published by St. Martins Press Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America:...

  • Wed 16
    September 16, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Robert Macfarlane: A virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland

    Robert Macfarlane joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland (W.W. Norton). More details coming soon, so keep an eye on this...

  • Wed 16
    September 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Zach Norris and Rosemarie Day VIRTUALLY

    Rosemarie Day and Zach Norris discuss both of their books, the pandemic's effect on communities of color and lower income communities, public health policy across...

  • Wed 16
    September 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Sue Miller (Virtual Event)

    Sue Miller’s latest book, Monogomy, is an engrossing and haunting novel about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow. Sue is recognized internationally for her elegant and...

  • Wed 16
    September 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: Celebrating City Lights Spotlights Series Vol. 19 & 20

           reading from Facing You/Spotlight #19, by Uche Nduka Natch/Spotlight #20, by Sophia Dhalin both published by City Lights Books ---- This is a virtual...

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

    Lara Mimosa Montes

    Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES, a meditation on the Bronx of the 70s and 80s, gentrification, trauma, and loss. Her work has...

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  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led

    The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. history took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union, the...

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

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

    Join us on Thursday, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom....

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: ALL THE FEELS 2020

    You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal connection & mortal vulnerability w/Ned Buskirk, the You're...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation

    Register to attend Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She'll be...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm featuring Peter Neil Carroll online on Zoom registration link to come Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His...

    Free
  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessica Garrison, The Devil’s Harvest

    Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's...

  • Thu 17
    September 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

    Free
  • Sat 19
    September 19, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Jingletown Reading Presents Tomás Riley

    Please Share. Please Invite. Join us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST. See Jingletown...

    Free
  • Sat 19
    September 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Ayad Akhtar (Virtual Event)

    Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)

    Meet some of the legendary, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery, Becoming a Good Creature

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

  • Sun 20
    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Wade Davis (Virtual Event)

    Wade Davis' inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena: River of Dreams, braids together memoir, history, and journalism to form both a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Poetry as Translation, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky

    Eugene Ostashevsky, a Russian-American poet, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz

    Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation, Stone-Garland

    Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). This event is sponsored by...

  • Tue 22
    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She'll be in conversation with Christina...

  • Wed 23
    September 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Barry Gifford in conversation with Rob Christopher

    celebrates the release of his new book Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 published by Seven Stories Press In a special presentation, Barry Gifford will be joined...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Tara Fickle in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong

    Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An...

  • Thu 24
    September 24, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    A Reading of Osip Mandelstam in English, with Ilya Bernstein

    Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam's poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as...

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