Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology, rootedness, longing, apocalypse, and the complex cartographies of desire.
The Booksmith presents John Jodzio, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk, Dave Madden, author of If You Need Me I'll Be Over There, and Kara Vernor, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.
A haunting, vibrant novel, Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer.
Snacks, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served!
FREE admission – Cash bar exotica.
This special program is not submissions–based.
Poetry reading and record release party!
Poetry Reading: Chana Block and Susan Cohen.
Copies of A Dark Ordinary and On Ghosts will be available for purchase at the event.
Authors from two generations present their latest works.
Liane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and The Husband's Secret, as well as the New York Times bestseller What Alice Forgot and The Hypnotists Love Story.
Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.
coffee & canela are free during readings!
Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, with Zyzzyva magazine's Oscar Villalon.
Only event in San Francisco!
Free and open to the public!
Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday, September 15, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home!
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Zach Wyner, to the store to discuss and sign his new novel, What We Never Had.
Prequel to the Earthsong Series
Colson Whitehead in conversation about his new novel, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday Books).
A reading and celebration.
Follow the Omi family as they make their way through World War II -- from San Francisco to the internment camp in Arkansas and back again in American Yellow.
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov.
Come hear Jennifer Barone & Cara Vida feature their latest poetry and more.
Cave Canem fellow James Cagney is a poet and writer from Oakland.
Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Lee Marrs, one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective, for the launch of her long-awaited collection "The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp".
Queer essay authors Julia Serano (Whipping Girl), Aaron Shurin (The Skin of Meaning), and Yuska Lutfi Tuanakotta (Gentlemen Prefer Asians) will read from their essay collections
phren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers.
Please join us for a rare chance to see one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed performers, poets, photographers, and filmmakers.
Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Lee Marrs, one of the founding mommies of the Wimmen’s Comix Collective, for the launch of her long-awaited collection "The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp".