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EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Maria Tumarkin to celebrate the publication of her book of essays, on Monday, September 24th at 7pm. Winner of the Melbourne...

The Bindery hosts the launch for Aimee Lucido's debut,Emmy in the Key of Code. With her in conversation isKwame Alexander (The Crossover). Please join us! In this...

 Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, No Good Very Bad Asian with Vanessa Hua. Praise for No Good Very Bad Asian "A touching, funny tale of a...

Join us to celebrate the release of The San Francisco Writers Grotto's new series LIT STARTS with a writing night on humor. About Writing Humor...

Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O'Hara Notebook. About Bill Berkson Born in New York...

Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel, Red at the Bone. Please join us!...

    * Saturday, September 28 100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event ____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____ Readers:  TBA

Walker Talks The last Sunday of each month (except June/July and December) from 2:30 to 4 pm The last Sunday of every month (except the...

Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. Praise for The Undying “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention...

Booksmith hosts editor Belo Miguel Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir) for Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities, alongn with contributors Caitlin Hernandez andDavid-Elijah Nahmod. Please join us! Take...

celebrating the relase of the latest issue of Freeman's Freeman's: California published by Grove Press Featuring work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Kushner, Mai...

EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel, Royal Holiday, on Tuesday, October 1st at 7pm. From the New...

Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. Green Apple Books and Music 506 Clement...

Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and other stories by Maxim Osipov Preface by Svetlana Alexievitch, edited...

The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer's debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon, but please save the date and join us! At...

Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider. About The Gaijin Cookbook...

discussing the subject of Ian Brennan's new book Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth published by PM Press Popular culture has woven itself into...

BINDERY: LAUNCH for Taneum Bambrick / Vantage and Graham Barnhart / The War Makes Everyone Lonely, with Rita Chang-Eppig & Claire Meuschke Thursday, October 3, 2019...

Max Tomlinson joins us to discuss his novel, Vanishing in the Haight. About Vanishing in the Haight Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying...

Sean Gasper Bye, Elisabeth Jaquette, Julia Sanches, Jeremy Tiang and Jeffrey Zuckerman, members of Çedilla & Co., a collective of literary translators representing a wide range of writers, languages,...

The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, re-commences this Fall 2019 with a double-program featuring outstanding composer-improvisers Fay Victor, visiting from...

  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry,...