presens Merge Left:Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. "The book for anyone interested in cross-racial solidarity on behalf of racial and economic justice...
Join us at Books Inc. Alameda to celebrate 15 years of serving our community! Come for snacks, activities for the kids, music, and fun with...
Tom Lutz discusses his new novel, Born Slippy. Praise for Born Slippy "A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the...
Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras' novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS celebrates the latest issue of their dear friends at ZYZZYVA on Friday, January 24! ZYZZYVA dedicates its most recent issue to the...
A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, Robert Hass A new volume of poetry from Robert...
Prose, poetry and artwork from the Civil Liberties United anthology, featuring Lorraine Bonner, Sue Granzella, Anahita Miller, Sridevi Ramanathan & Shizue Seigel, The anthology includes...
An artist showcase and open mic night honoring the voices of black women.
Come Write With Us! Novelists, poets, nonfiction writers, artists, all genre/ genrequeer/ no genre. We'll bring a few writing prompts/ poems to help start you...
Welcome back! I'm excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Readings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...
reading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...
This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...
Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...
Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper published in Storm...
San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...
discussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...
Please join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...
Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...
Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016, it was named...
Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
in conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...
Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...
It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau, Vincent Chu, Kevin Dublin, Lauren Ito,...
It's 2020! The future is here! We've got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it's the...
Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books, most recently Mostly Clearing, from Roof Books, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We...