DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland and Coffee House Press welcome Amanda Nadelberg and Ben Mirov to the store to discuss and sign their new poetry books, Songs from a Mountain and Ghost Machines.
Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in West Marin Review, Volume 6.
Tom Odegard (aka Tom/Ms.G).
Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading.
As part of our QUEERING THE CASTRO program we're bringing a conversation with three Bay Area artists about the intersections of blackness, queerness and art.
Ken Kalfus and Rachel Monroe are current Writers in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
Readings by four different poets!
Mark Binelli, author of Green Apple staff favorite Detroit City is the Place to Be, reads from his new novel, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits.
Before the Wind is a grand and idiosyncratic family saga.
Award-winning author Fenton Johnson discusses his unforgettable new novel, The Man Who Loved Birds.
Toby Gleason in conversation with Al Young celebrating the release of MUSIC IN THE AIR: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason + CONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews.
Chernoff, Murphy, Omura, Rosner, + Velasco
Townsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries, foreign places, violence and strong women. A novella in noir, La Ronde, was published by Truth Serum Press in June 2015.
Paul Madonna’s First Solo Show in Five Years Comes to The Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco in the Form of an Exhibition & Book Launch.
Our readers for this evening are Mk Chavez, Ruth Crossman, J de Salvo, Keeley Ann Finn, Kelly Klein, Colleen McKee, and Jan Steckel.
Our first East Bay event!
Yaghoub Yadali, a fiction writer from Iran, has directed for television and worked for Roshd Magazine as the editor of the film section.
Readings.
Kimberly Grey, Rachel Richardson, and Tess Taylor read poems from their new collections.
Join RADAR Productions on our signature series, Hella Close, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program!
An Afternoon with City Lights Publishing.
Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond.
Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins weaves together poetry, violin, a loop pedal, and feminist Bible scholarship to create performances of unique and captivating beauty.
Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California’s Mojave Desert.
The Pharos Gate rejoices in the book as physical object, weaving together word and image in beautifully illustrated postcards and removable letters that reveal a sensual and metaphysical romance, one full of mystery and intrigue.
Crowded by Beauty chronicles the course of Whalen's life, focusing on his unique, eccentric, humorous, and literary-religious practice.
Rosalind Brackenbury reads from her extraordinary novel, The Third Swimmer.
Jennifer Dwight has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area's legal community, the setting for her upcoming suspense novel, for more than 30 years.
Readings.
From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war.