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  • Jan Steckel at Poetry Express

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express, hosted by Bruce Bagnell, with open mic.

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  • David Marriott

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Tuesday February 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room David Marriott is originally from the UK, but now lives in Oakland, California....

  • Ayesha Harruna Attah

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from The Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel published by Other Press Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom...

  • Inheritance

    Dani Shapiro

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. "Identity is frail business, and in her searing story, Dani...

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  • The Lumberjack's Dove

    Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist...

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  • The Lumberjack's Dove

    GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection, The Lumberjack's Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry!   “Serious art does not need to be weighty or...

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  • Daughter of Molokai

    Alan Brennert

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.

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  • pegasus books downtown

    Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...

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  • Meet Author Jasmine Guillory

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...

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  • Chloe Aridjis

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...

  • Welcome to Freedom Point

    Marina Mularz

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...

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  • Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    Oakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...

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  • George Higgins & Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...

  • THERE 28

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    THERE 28  will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...

  • Clearly Meant presents James Cagney

    Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...

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  • Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...

  • Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, ca

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

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  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...

  • Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    celebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...

  • Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Tuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

         reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...

  • Nona Caspers

    Nona Caspers and Friends

    James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers' latest book, the novel, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal...

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  • Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    #we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...

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  • Lloyd Kahn

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    A Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn's Latest Book, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast from Shelter Publications Preceded by Discussion and Vintage...

  • Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Come celebrate Lew Ellingham's 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book, 2018; new narrative exponent, poet, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about...

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  • THE RACKET!

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders