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  • January 2021

  • Fri 22

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference

    January 22, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...

  • Fri 22

    Virtual Event: Rebecca Fishow and Emily Schultz

    January 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN REBECCA FISHOW DISCUSSES HER LATEST COLLECTION, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, WITH EMILY SCHULTZ ON ZOOM! Zoom Login Info Please...

  • Fri 22

    ACCENTED | For Your Consideration: Diasporic Vietnamese Filmmakers

    January 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers, poets, artists,...

  • Sat 23

    Author Ed Lin Discusses new book, ‘David Tung Can’t Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College

    January 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Hosted by Eastwind Book Club. Live discussion with author Ed Lin. About the book: David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale,...

  • Sat 23

    At The Door – The Preface (inaugural event)

    January 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST
    online

    At The Door is a monthly reading series featuring and uplifting Black, Indigenous, and people of color voices. Started in collaboration by Danielle, Ariel, Randy,...

    Free
  • Mon 25

    Author Event: Wandering In Greece With Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin

    January 25, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of the new collection of travel writing, WANDERING IN GREECE,...

  • Tue 26

    Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais

    January 26, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN...

  • Tue 26

    VIRTUAL: Roy Richard Grinker in conversation with Steve Silberman / Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    January 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Roy Richard Grinker's new book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of...

  • Wed 27

    The Echoing Ida Collective

    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book The Echoing Ida Collection Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi...

  • Wed 27

    Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe – The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)

    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know

    January 28, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28

    Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: New Poems published by Wesleyan University Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads, featuring Benjamin Garcia, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A...

  • Sat 30

    Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV

    January 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...

  • Sat 30

    Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards – Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)

    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her...

  • Sat 30

    Conversations with Authors – Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)

    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Sherry L. Smith's Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth century. The opening years of the twentieth century...

  • February 2021

  • Tue 2

    Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann

    February 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK, FOUR LOST CITIES:...

  • Tue 2

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich, Unsolaced

    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Gretel Ehrlich, author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, will share her new book Unsolaced—a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird,...

  • Tue 2

    Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri | GGP Online Book Club

    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel...

  • Thu 4
    Kiki Petrosino

    Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino

    February 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
    online

    Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    Dispatches from the Race War

    February 4, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white...

  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Lauren Groff

    February 4, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 4

    Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating Dantial W. Moniz new novel Milk Blood Heat published by Grove Atlantic Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 4

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4
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    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!

    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
    online

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post

    February 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Join us online for a tribute to Jory Post, beloved Bookshop friend and champion of the written word. From coordinating Santa Cruz's Open Read to producing...

  • Fri 5

    Virtual Event: Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell with Faith Salie

    February 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN DR. JUDY MELINEK AND T.J. MITCHELL ARE JOINED BY FAITH SALIE TO DISCUSS THEIR LATEST BOOK, AFTERSHOCK, ON...

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