• VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface

    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...

  • THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
  • Terry Tempest Williams

    Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....

  • Chinatown Pretty Book Talk

    Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City,...

  • PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation

    Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of...

  • Colossus: Home Reading

    Kelliane Parker Susan Dambroff Keith M. Gaboury Daniel Ari Elaine de Coligny Phyllis  Houseman noemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)

  • Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado

    This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...

  • Deborah Madison, An Onion in My Pocket

    Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...

  • Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion

    online

    Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...

    $10.00
  • Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna

    celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...

  • Beast Generation Uprising

    online

    Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....

    Free
  • Third Man Books Night @ City Lights

    Celebrating three awesome new books!      Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...

  • VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago

    Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...

  • Funeral Diva

    A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...

  • Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh

    Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...