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  • April 2021

  • Tue 27

    Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza

    April 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.    celebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of...

    Free
  • Tue 27

    This Is Now: Kawai Strong Washburn

    April 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Join Angie Coiro as she interviews the critically acclaimed debut novelist who stunned everyone from former President Obama to Marlon James and Tommy Orange with...

  • Tue 27

    THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood | GGP Online Book Club

    April 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed...

  • Tue 27

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Brian Fies, A Fire Story

    April 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies will share A Fire Story, his firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017—revised and expanded, and...

  • Wed 28

    VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?

    April 28, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet's Library. But is it? A generation ago, when...

  • Wed 28

    Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.

    April 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE...

    Free
  • Thu 29

    Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons

    April 29, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    This reading series, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who...

    Free
  • Thu 29

    Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy

    April 29, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF JOIN US ON THURSDAY, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT...

  • Thu 29

    Black Freighter Press, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne, Christopher Malec, Josiah Luis Alderete, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.

    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    Remote access event, free and open to the public Registration link pending With emcee, Tonya M. Foster Supported in part by the National Endowment for...

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  • Thu 29

    Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell

    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José online on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! or join be phone +1...

    Free
  • Thu 29

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver, Growing Weed in the Garden

    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver will discuss her book Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis. Silver will be in conversation with...

  • Fri 30

    Kate Crawford in conversation with Trevor Paglen

    April 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    celebrating the launch of Kate Crawford's new book ATLAS of AI:Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence published by Yale University Press The...

  • Fri 30

    Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel

    April 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel's full-length collection of poetry, Low Rent Prophet. Readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, James Tracy, and...

    Free
  • Fri 30

    VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Celeste Chan, MK Chavez, Paul Corman-Roberts & Tim Xonnelly

    April 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
  • May 2021

  • Sat 1

    Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)

    May 1, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    From Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl...

  • Sat 1

    See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World

    May 1, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...

    Free
  • Sun 2

    Astra Taylor with Robert Reich

    May 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Sunday, May 2, 2021 1:00pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021, 05/04/2021, 05/05/2021 DONATE Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through...

    free
  • Sun 2

    Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021

    May 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton)....

    Free
  • Mon 3

    Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary

    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
    online

    Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: SIDE...

    Free
  • Mon 3

    Allison Cobb discusses her new book, Plastic: An Autobiography

    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Allison Cobb in conversation about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force...

  • Mon 3

    Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner

    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    aunch party for the new book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America published by University of Chicago Press ---------- This is a virtual...

  • Mon 3

    Odd Mondays Reading “Arisa White & Friends”

    May 3, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Celebrate the publication of Arisa White's new poetry collection, WHO'S YOUR DADDY, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3....

    Free
  • Mon 3

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again

    May 3, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, the wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi...

  • Tue 4

    Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

    May 4, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Watch & share this talk on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Long Now Live. What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For...

    Free
  • Tue 4

    Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber

    May 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Fans of Stacey Lee’s wonderful historical fiction rejoice! We are thrilled to announce we are launching Stacey Lee’s powerful and critically acclaimed new novel, Luck...

  • Tue 4

    Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon

    May 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Join us on Tuesday, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book, My Time Will Come: A...

    Free
  • Tue 4

    VIRTUAL: Jonny Sun / Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

    May 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Jonny Sun again, for his new book Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations! We are also pleased to announce we have...

  • Tue 4

    Erica Hunt and Michael Palmer

    May 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.        reading from new works Jump The Clock by Erica...

  • Tue 4

    Virtual Event: Ian Manuel

    May 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE WELCOME IAN MANUEL FOR THE LAUNCH OF HIS BOOK, MY TIME WILL COME: A MEMOIR OF CRIME,...

  • Tue 4

    Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco

    May 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online CA, United States

    Vendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian From the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover, San Francisco has always been a city in...

    Free
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