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  • Play: Exhibit + Reading

    Pro Arts Gallery 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

    The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity.

  • Brian Hassett’s Beat Cafe

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    This appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos, bringing the total in the book to 70!

  • First Friday: Naked Truth real.stories.live

    Main Reading Room, Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    For Adults and High School Students only.

  • 2017 Bay Area Book Festival

    Downtown Berkeley

    Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.

  • Drag Queen Story Hour

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in the library. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.

  • Youth Poetry Workshop w/ Kim Shuck + Dan Vera

    Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Poets Kim Shuck and Dan Vera will host a poetry workshop for young adults, by drawing on the poetry anthology, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands

  • Babylon Salon

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Babylon Salon is a San Francisco-based showcase and community of writers, performers, readers, singers, musicians, magicians, imbibers (of spirits and spirit), and revelers.

  • Imaniman: A Night of Poetry

    Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras, identity, and art.

  • 3 Blues-y Ladies

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

    Banty Hen, Andrea Passwater, and Rosie Cima perform music to poetry.

  • Courtney Maum

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel, Touch.

  • Bazaar Writers Salon Reading

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Readings by Aamina Ahmad, Peg Alford Pursell, Michael Shewmaker, + Shelley Wong.

  • Quiet Lightning

    Clarion Music Performing Arts Center 816 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    This will be a free show, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist.

  • Lisa Ko

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.

  • Shut Up + Share

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

    A first come, first serve reading group.

  • An evening of poetry w/ Hass, Manuel, + Hood

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Robert Hass, Douglas Manuel, and Charles Hood to the store to discuss and sign their latest works.

  • Jess Arndt

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

    Reading from her short fiction debut, Large Animals.

  • Moon Drop presents Prince

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

    Each reading will have a theme, June 7th being The Beautiful One's Birthday will be a tribute to Prince.

  • Trina Robbins + Artists

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

    Booksmith is excited to host author Trina Robbins for her new graphic novel, A Minyen Yidn!

  • Kevin Kwan: Rich People Problems

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend.

  • Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Kintu

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi to the store to discuss and sign Kintu.

  • Laleh Khadivi

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

    Laleh Khadivi in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom celebrating the release of A Good Country

  • Andrew Shvarts

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate the launch of Royal Bastards by local author Andrew Shvarts.

  • Jenny Forrester + Ariel Gore

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

    Jenny Forrester in conversation with Ariel Gore about her memoir, Narrow River, Wide Sky.

  • Thad Carhart

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Thad Carhart reads from his delightful memoir, Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France, just out in paperback.