Please join us for the eighth installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Please note: this event has been cancelled. Adrienne Miller discusses her new memoir, In the Land of Men, with Dave Eggers. Praise for In the...
It's a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we're raising funds to help local Bay...
Open Mic at MoAD is going virtual! Use this link to participate in the Open Mic online. You can sign up below to read, or...
Poet and translator Stefania Heim joins Olivia Sears to talk about Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian poetry, visual and verbal juxtapositions, and interlingual negotiations. AUTHOR Giorgio...
celebrating the new edition of Margery Kempe by Robert Glück, introduction by Colm Toibin published by New York Review Books First published in 1994, Robert...
We can still remember celebrating our mother's 40th birthday with a cake shaped like a coffin and a bunch of people wearing underwear on their...
With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both...
Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection, Thin Places: Essays From In Between. Praise for Thin Places “Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos: etched with...
Jordan Kisner discusses her new essay collection, Thin Places: Essays From In Between with Esmé Weijun Wang. Praise for Thin Places “Jordan Kisner’s essays are like intricate tattoos:...
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Zoom Secession Virtual Happy Hour Friday, March 27, 6pm https://zoom.us/j/448811298 While we're closed until the city allows us to reopen (fingers crossed for April 9),...
During Women's History month 2019, a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...
As we protect our most vulnerable populations from COVID-19 and practice social distancing, Foglifter is responding to the marginalized communities’ necessary call to maintain connection...
Jane Hirshfield reads from her new collection of poems, Ledger. About Ledger: From one of our most celebrated contemporary poets--long-listed for the National Book Award...
Scandal is "an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage." Whether it's the short skirt your mom wore,...
Bay Area Antioch Reading Series is a quarterly reading series curated and sponsored by alumni of Antioch University MFA Program in Creative Writing. BAARS no.2...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!:...
Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Blue Absolute, just out from Nightboat Books. Other works include:...
a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...
Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!: The...
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A Room of One’s Own- Virtual Reading Series- FICTION night If you, like the rest of us, are feeling isolated with a sudden and vast...
Binational publisher Archive 48, dedicated to Mexican and U.S. literature, launches its U.S. wing with the first-ever English translation of an important work by Jose...
PLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! Berkeley...
ookshop welcomes acclaimed local poet, editor, and teacher Patrice Vecchione (Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience) for a celebration of her newest...
Alexandra Chang discusses her debut novel, Days of Distraction. Praise for Days of Distraction “A startlingly original and deeply moving debut—kaleidoscopic, funny, heart-rending, beautifully observed, and...