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Bathsheba Demuth and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elizabeth Rush join us for a conversation about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton). This event will...

Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers present Extraordinary Dreamer: Patti Smith on "Year of the Monkey" Patti Smith in an intimate...

Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with journalist and...

Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Paul Madonna to launch his new illustrated novel Come to Light. ** Please note ** >  This event is free and...

Join us on Thursday, October 8 at 6pm PDT when Neal Karlen joins us to discuss his book, This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On+Off the Record on...

Life is Living is going virtual! Mark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th, online. Live Music Theater...

Join us on Friday, October 9 at 7pm PDT when Shannon Lee, discusses her book, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee, with author Jeff Chang on...

Please join us on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel, THE...

We're excited to announce the Building Bridges Book Club, a new partnership with the Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library. The Marin Poetry Center Building...

Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations. Register online now to get...

Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino...

Please register in advance for this party: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN... come celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we'll...

Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River, Drop...

In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of...

Catherine Grace Katz's first book, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War, draws on newly accessible sources to...

City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it...

Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation...

Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry...

Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season's great new culinary and cocktail titles. We...

The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet....

Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and...

Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera....

Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...

How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...

Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...