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Celebrating three awesome new books!      Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...

Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...

Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...

The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...

THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...

Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...

Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....

D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello

Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the...

Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...

Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the...

Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...

Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...

Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and...

Join us on Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK...

ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College...

Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will...

Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new...

Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his... In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems...

90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...

Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what's going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges...

Please join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman's new novel, ANXIOUS PEOPLE....

Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf