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  • October 2020

  • Tue 13

    Joe Cottonwood

    October 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry...

  • Tue 13

    Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails

    October 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season's great new culinary and cocktail titles. We...

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

    October 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet....

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line

    October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and...

  • Wed 14

    Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera....

  • Wed 14

    Flash Fiction Forum’s Fall Reading Series

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems - live on Zoom!

  • Thu 15

    VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...

  • Thu 15

    C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...

  • Thu 15

    San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...

    Free
  • Thu 15

    Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...

  • Thu 15

    Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...

  • Fri 16

    THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    October 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
  • Fri 16

    Terry Tempest Williams

    October 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....

  • Fri 16

    ACCENTED | She Who Has No Master(s): Would That

    October 16, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit "Would That" at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery The...

  • Sat 17

    Life in Space: Translation of a Poetry Book by Galina Rymbu

    October 17, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am PDT

    Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу), translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky,...

  • Sat 17

    Chinatown Pretty Book Talk

    October 17, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City,...

  • Sat 17

    PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation

    October 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of...

  • Sat 17

    Colossus: Home Reading

    October 17, 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm PDT

    Kelliane Parker Susan Dambroff Keith M. Gaboury Daniel Ari Elaine de Coligny Phyllis  Houseman noemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)

  • Mon 19

    Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado

    October 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...

  • Mon 19

    VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun

    October 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She'll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! ** Please note **...

  • Mon 19

    Deborah Madison, An Onion in My Pocket

    October 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...

  • Tue 20

    Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion

    October 20, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT
    online

    Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...

    $10.00
  • Tue 20

    Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna

    October 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...

  • Tue 20

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity

    October 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He'll be in conversation...

  • Wed 21
    Beast Generation Uprising

    Beast Generation Uprising

    October 21, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - October 22, 2020 @ 12:01 am PDT
    online

    Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....

    Free
  • Wed 21

    Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!

    October 21, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone's favorite construction crew is back...

  • Wed 21

    SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

    October 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...

    Free
  • Wed 21

    Third Man Books Night @ City Lights

    October 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    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...

  • Wed 21

    VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago

    October 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    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...

  • Fri 23

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas

    October 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
    online

    An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...

    Free
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