When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live...
Featured readers - James Zealous Christine No Tifa Love Clara Hsu Sarita de la Madrid Musical guests: Brother Spellbinder Ed Dang With your host Bloodflower
As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco's mayoral candidates, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday, May 20 starting...
It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late - obsession, grief, ghosts - so we thought, let's try something a little more...
Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel, The Mars Room. Prasie for Rachel Kushner “Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able...
The Bindery presents former Mythbusters' host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions. Crash test...
Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! Senator...
The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us! When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists...
Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8pm $10 online & at the door... TICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open...
Jenny Xie reading from her award winning poetry collection Eye Level published by Graywolf Press Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Daegan Miller to the store to discuss his book, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent, on Tuesday, May 22nd at 7pm. Joining him in conversation...
James Hatch served with the Navy SEALs, where he rose to the rank of special ops Senior Chief. He fought in 150 missions, including service...
The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! “She’d told herself, and her husband Tom, that...
Poetry and prose: apples and oranges? Decide for yourself at Perfectly Queer East Bay "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose" Wednesday, May 23, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore...
Daegan Miller discussing the subject of his new book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent from University of Chicago Press "The...
Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining...
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Aja Gabel discusses her new novel, The Ensemble. Praise for The Ensemble "Aja Gabel's powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their...
Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She is a Grant Writer in San Francisco, where she shares...
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. This is a Reading, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love...
Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Please join us!...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Kim Malcolm to the store to discuss her book, A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece, on Thursday,...
Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin Introduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers) Opening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner, EUROPE CENTRAL) Presentations and roundtable...
The Bindery hosts an evening salon exploring the body in fiction and nonfiction with Lone Mørch, Sarah Kornfeld, September Williams and Kristin Kaye, all reading from their new books. Please join...
Barbara Berman reads from her new poetry collection, Currents. Praise for Currents The reach of these graceful, ambitious poems ranges across stars, cities, storms. Their...
Jane Mead’s new book of poems is World of Made and Unmade. C.D. Wright said, “As the laundry room floods and the grape harvest gets done; as...
reads from Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan, a raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom...
Please join us on Friday, May 25rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Eli Jaxon-Bear for a reading and signing of his latest book An Outlaw...
The 2nd annual Bay Area Queer Zine Fest is coming back September 9! What better way to get people pumped about zines than to have...
Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel from McSweeney's The Boatbuilder. Praise for The Boatbuilder “The Boatbuilder is a gorgeous debut about addiction, aspiration, and art on the...