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  • InsideStorytime IN EXTREMIS

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

    Thursday September 20th, 7-9pm, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars), Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up), Philip Harris (The Flowers In My Mothers' Name), Kate Folk, and Steven Black.

  • MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons, reading and in conversation

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We'll be helping to debut the first full-length book, Her Mouth As Souvenir, by...

  • Denise Clifton

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Denise Clifton discusses her new book, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today....

  • Valerie Wallace, Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. Praise for House of McQueen “How does a writer begin to...

  • BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS’ FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION

    Nomadic Press: Uptown 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for an amazing evening of readings, live music, gnosh / refreshments, and friends of Nomadic Press as we...

  • Dickson Lam

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

    Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Kenyon Review Online, Hyphen Magazine, the Normal School, PANK, the Good Men Project, the Rumpus, and Kartika Review. He...

  • Katya Apekina, Bryan Hurt, and Lisa Locascio

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish), Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador...

  • POETRY EVENT!

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

    Featured readers tba Curated by Aakash Tyagi

  • Jackson Burgess

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

    Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection...

  • Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie...

  • Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser

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

    Monday, September 24, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Fifty years later, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge...

  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING

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

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...

  • Dubravka Ugresic

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels, Fox and American Fictionary. Praise for Fox "Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent, in part because within...

  • Kathryn Jordan reads poems from Riding Waves

    Pegasus Books on Solano 1855 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tuesday, September 25, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Solano Kathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection, Riding Waves. Kathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of...

  • Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 -  2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928...

  • Preti Taneja reading from her new novel We That Are Young

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

    We That Are Young published by Alfred Knopf A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power...

  • Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, reading from their poetry

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...

  • THE RACKET! #23: The Dark

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

    The summer's over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let's gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on...

  • Léonora Miano

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

    City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present Léonora Miano celebrating the release of Season...

  • Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...

  • Zulema Renee Summerfield / Every Other Weekend

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel, Every Other Weekend. Please join us!   The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. The...

  • Christian Kracht

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Christian Kracht reads from his new novel, The Dead. Praise for Christian Kracht “Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl...

  • THERE

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

    NEXT THERE: THERE 24 – Friday,  September 28, 2018, with a great lineup of writers and musicians to be announced. See you in the fall! THERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a...