Come to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event, and join other poets, musicians, artists, dancers, photographers, & performing artists, around the USA & across the planet!
Book Release.
A night of fantastic readings!
Riad Sattouf to the store to discuss and sign his graphic memoir, The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984-1985.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her transcendent and thought provoking memoir, In the Darkroom.
Reading from her marvelous novel, The Past, in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house.
Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a Launch Party celebration with local author Anne Nesbet and her brand new book Cloud and Wallfish!
A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.
Kick off the last weekend of September by coming to see four outstanding poets!
Third reader this season!
Please join us for an evening of literary-laced bonhomie to celebrate Zach Wyner and his debut novel, What We Never Had, Rare Bird Books.
Reading and celebration of fifteen Marin Poetry Center members with new books!
Join City Lights' Poetry Editor Garrett Caples, and Berkeley-based poet, Julien Poirier, for a presentation from their co-edited, posthumous Frank Lima anthology, Incidents of Travel in Poetry.
Celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook, INNER RIVER, available now from Drop Leaf Press.
Come together Friday, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark's words and life.
In his revealing memoir The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar).
21st Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival "Stands Up for the Earth" with dynamic readings over thirty poets and writers!
Open reading for all ages!
Join us for a very special evening as we launch five new chapbooks in our Fall 2016 Chapbook Collection into the universe.
Readings hosted by Peter Kline.
Wulf Losee lives and works in the Bay Area.
Free admission, all ages, full menu and bar.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks.
Danish writer Josefine Klougart reads from One of Us is Sleeping, the first of her novels translated into English.
In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding.
Anne Raeff in conversation with Anthony Marra for the book launch of The Jungle Around Us, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and lived in New York City his entire life.
The Booksmith presents iO Tillett Wright / Darling Days at Second Act.
Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, in conversation with ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon.