*Also* this might be our last issue ever, so we extra-hope you'll come hang out and get mad AF with a bunch of wonderful people who appreciate all your rage and feelings!
André Alexis, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs, discusses his new novel, The Hidden Keys with Karen Joy Fowler.
Open reading.
Green Apple's Stephen Sparks talks with essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger about his new collection, The Ghosts of Birds.
A reading to celebrate the new anthology Writing Down the Walls: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, edited by Klonaris and Rabiyah, co-sponsored by Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Free reading!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler shares his powerful new novel, Perfume River.
Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca.
Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler's Anatomy.
Ibram X. Kendi discusses his National Book Award-nominated book, Stamped from the Beginning.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patrick Hoffman to the store to discuss and sign his new thriller, Every Man a Menace.
The acclaimed bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.
Brit Bennett in conversation about her debut novel, The Mothers (Riverhead).
Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading.
Reading with a great poet!
Poets Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts read from new work and engage in conversation with their audience.
Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner!
Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debut The White Van with Every Man A Menace, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring.
Co-winners of the 2015 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction talk and read from their respective works.
All events are free and open to the public.
Hosted by Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Blythe Baldwin.
An evening of The Beats poets and the Zen of Haiku poetry.
Readings + music!
After the reading and costume contest, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm!
The 2016 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized.
Andrés Neuman returns to Books on the Park to read from his newly translated essay collection, How to Travel Without Seeing.
Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner's AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott.
Three great readings!
An afternoon of reading.
Fiction writers, Assistant Professor Carolina De Robertis and Micah Perks, read from their work.