Join us for an evening with both Rebecca Skloot and members of the Lacks family to discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks, the subject of...
Lily Hoang is the author of five books, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction...
Booksmith hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with Caroline Goodwin (The Paper Tree) and Linda Norton (The Public Gardens). Please join us for this...
Please join us on Friday, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White, Aja Couchois Duncan, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis! Event is FREE. Laguintas...
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around!
BAPC OPEN POETRY READING Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018: March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2 3:00 - 5:00 PM ...
Free readings!
A reading + book party!
A short workshop with San Francisco's 7th poet laureate, Kim Shuck. She has worked with young people for over 30 years in San Francisco public...
NorCalzone: a California Reading READERS: Joseph Graham Ben Loory Mira Gonzalez Gene Morgan Mallory Whitten Timothy Willis Sanders http://disorderpress.com
Readings by Micah Ballard, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jenn Alandy Trahan, and Kathleen Winter Hosted by Peter Kline Micah Ballard is author of three full-length collections...
Artist, poet, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at...
Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry.
Our 116th show!
KQED’s own pledge-master, Bud Gundy, recently published a new book, Somewhere Over Lorain Road, a mystery set in suburban Ohio. A gay man who had...
Book Release Party for Girls Burn Brighter published by Flatiron Books.
Shobha Rao Book Release Party for Girls Burn Brighter published by Flatiron Books A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of...
Reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien."
Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol...
Bonnie Siegler discusses her new book, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America with Roman Mars. About Signs of Resistance In hundreds of iconic,...
Reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press.
Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic...
Local writers Cara Black, Andrew McIntyre, and Anne Raeff read passages from their works that discuss food, cooking, and eating. Hosted by Olive This Olive...
An open mic follows the featured readers.
Solmaz Sharif, author of Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) and a National Book Award finalist, reads from her poetry and essays.
Join us for our monthly poetry series celebrating the Latinidad of the Latino Cultural District.
Our celebration of International Women's Day will be led by three powerful women reading from their work and talking about how their writing has empowered...
Discussing his new book Everything You Love Will Burn published by Nation Books.
Madame Nielsen w/ Scott Esposito.
Madame Nielsen discusses their new novel, The Endless Summer with Scott Esposito. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. Praise for The Endless Summer "The Endless Summer by...