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Alli Warren reads with Jena Osman for the Poetry Project virtual events series. Motion Studies and Little Hill, the new books of Jena Osman and Alli Warren,...

mmy Award winner Henry Winker and Lin Oliver are back for the second installment of the New York Times bestselling middle grade series that Diary of a Wimpy...

The Distance Between Us BY REYNA GRANDE Grande puts a human face on the fraught issue of immigration in her acclaimed memoir. At age nine,...

Booksmith and The Bindery host New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand for his first graphic novel City Monster! Please note: This is a ticketed event, with each...

Join the bookstore's Stephen Sparks and a panel of writers for a discussion of the work of the late Charles Bowden, whose "Unnatural History of...

Please join us on Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult nonfiction in this third episode of our Great...

In "One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father’s Russia" San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through one...

Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium RSVP for Zoom link: spt-nov.eventbrite.com Mary Burger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland CA....

Join us on Friday, November 20 at 6pm PST when Simon Han discusses his debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened, with Meng Jin on Zoom! Preorder here and receive a...

Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to...

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. Facing You is a collection of love...

Join CHSA in welcoming brothers Jim & Philip Chiao for an exploration into the history of Chinese in the Pacific salmon canning industry. In 1852,...

a reading and discussion of the great Romanian-born poet Paul Celan on the occasion of his 100th birthday with Judith Butler, Fady Joudah, and more guests TBD...

Tuesday, November 24 at 7:00 PM | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Environment/Nature Women/Gender Camille T. Dungy, Helen Macdonald Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H is For Hawk, a transcendent...

Please join us on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett's new novel, THE...

Marlena Fiol, author of Nothing Bad Between Us, will be in conversation with renowned author Joshua Coleman in a very special virtual event. Join them on Sunday, November...

Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...

Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...

Editor Alice Quinn is joined by contributors to the anthology, Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf), for this special virtual poetry...

Writing the Virus, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism,...

Writing the Virus, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism,...

Join Bookshop's interim head Children's buyer as she shares Bookshop's picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade, graphic novels...

Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias, Vincent Chu, Tomas...

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2020 - 7:00PM VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us online as we welcome distinguished professor of history, Sherry Smith in conversation with Geoffrey Dunn to talk about...

A Semiotexte Books Double Bill with two razor-sharp writers of fiction        celebrating the the release of two new novels Castle Faggot - by Derek McCormack...