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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...

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...

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...

       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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Please join us on Thursday, September 24 at 5 PM PDT for a Zoom book launch with author Rebecca D'Harlingue discussing her new novel, THE LINES BETWEEN US,...

Kerri Arsenault joins us via Crowdcast to discuss her debut book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (St. Martin's Press), with poet, editor, and writer John Freeman....

Independent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year. While we had planned to celebrate virtually alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide on August...