• Meet Author E.R. Ramzipoor

    Oakland Main Library 125 14th St, Oakland, CA, United States

    Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a "magnetic debut... Sprawling and ambitious, with crisp pacing and...

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  • Maria Tumarkin – – Axiomatic

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Maria Tumarkin to celebrate the publication of her book of essays, on Monday, September 24th at 7pm. Winner of the Melbourne...

  • Leland Cheuk: No Good Very Bad Asian

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

     Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, No Good Very Bad Asian with Vanessa Hua. Praise for No Good Very Bad Asian "A touching, funny tale of a...

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  • Book Launch: Nancy Au — Spider Love Song and Other Stories

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose...

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  • LIT STARTS: Writing Humor

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

    Join us to celebrate the release of The San Francisco Writers Grotto's new series LIT STARTS with a writing night on humor. About Writing Humor...

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  • J.D. Moyer – – The Guardian

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel, The Guardian, on Thursday, September 26th at 7pm. In the year...

  • Bill Berkson’s A Frank O’Hara Notebook

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

    Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O'Hara Notebook. About Bill Berkson Born in New York...

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  • Jacqueline Woodson / Red at the Bone

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

    Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel, Red at the Bone. Please join us!...

  • Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party: Poems

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves...

  • Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton Kathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books, 2018), which Indigo Moor called, “a wondrous example of...

  • Walker Talks

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Walker Talks The last Sunday of each month (except June/July and December) from 2:30 to 4 pm The last Sunday of every month (except the...

  • Anne Boyer: The Undying

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

    Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. Praise for The Undying “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention...

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  • John Freeman and Friends

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

    celebrating the relase of the latest issue of Freeman's Freeman's: California published by Grove Press Featuring work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Kushner, Mai...

  • Jasmine Guillory – – Royal Holiday

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel, Royal Holiday, on Tuesday, October 1st at 7pm. From the New...

  • Anne Boyer:The Undying

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  In the basement 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Website “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses...

  • Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.

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

    Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. Tuesday, October 1, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Solano People love hearing jazz...and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich...

  • Beyond the Shortest Month Book Club

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

    Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. Green Apple Books and Music 506 Clement...

  • Maxim Osipov

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

    Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and other stories by Maxim Osipov Preface by Svetlana Alexievitch, edited...

  • LAUNCH for Jon Roemer / Five Windows

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer's debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon, but please save the date and join us! At...

  • Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying

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

    Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider. About The Gaijin Cookbook...

  • Jericho Brown

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at...

  • Ian Brennan in conversation with David Harrington

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

    discussing the subject of Ian Brennan's new book Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth published by PM Press Popular culture has woven itself into...

  • Max Tomlinson

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

    Max Tomlinson joins us to discuss his novel, Vanishing in the Haight. About Vanishing in the Haight Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying...

  • The Future of Translation with Çedilla & Co.

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

    Sean Gasper Bye, Elisabeth Jaquette, Julia Sanches, Jeremy Tiang and Jeffrey Zuckerman, members of Çedilla & Co., a collective of literary translators representing a wide range of writers, languages,...

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