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  • October 2020
  • Sun 25
    October 25, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Before Columbus Foundation 41st Annual American Book Awards

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    The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...

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  • Sun 25
    October 25, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Eoin Colfer

    THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...

  • Sun 25
    October 25, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings

    Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...

  • Sun 25
    October 25, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch

    Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....

  • Sun 25
    October 25, 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm PDT

    Colossus: Home Reading

    D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello

  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

    Kandinsky: Dramatist, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud

    Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the...

  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte, Sarah Rosenthal, and Ayana Yonesaka

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...

  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra

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    We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...

    Free
  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor

    Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). This event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit...

    Free
  • Mon 26
    October 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

    Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the...

  • Tue 27
    October 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love

    Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...

  • Tue 27
    October 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou

    Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...

  • Wed 28
    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez

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    An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...

    Free
  • Wed 28
    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth

    Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and...

  • Wed 28
    October 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez

    Join us on Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK...

  • Thu 29
    October 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    No Matter What Faith: A Conversation with Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid (Virtual Event)

    ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College...

  • Thu 29
    October 29, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Author Talk: Nitasha Tamar Sharma with Andrew Way Leon

    Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will...

  • Thu 29
    October 29, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: An Evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa & Kimberly Reyes

    Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new...

  • Thu 29
    October 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    EmeryArts Poetry Reading with Sarah Kobrinsky

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    Enjoy an evening of poetry reading with Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Some ekphrastic poems inspired by the artwork in the 2020 Emeryville Art...

    Free
  • Thu 29
    October 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman

    Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his... In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems...

  • Fri 30
    October 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free
  • Fri 30
    October 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Hollister Rand – Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)

    Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what's going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges...

  • Sat 31
    October 31, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman's new novel, ANXIOUS PEOPLE....

  • November 2020
  • Sun 1
    November 1, 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm PST

    Colossus: Home Reading

    Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf

  • Wed 4
    November 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Orion Magazine presents Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams

    An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election, the State of Democracy, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. Join Orion Magazine and Point Reyes...

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Writers Against Trump

    Writers Against Trump Join us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event...

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm PST

    Karen Tei Yamashita in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong

    Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita, author of I-Hotel, Letters to Memory, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong...

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain

    Join us on Thursday, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Mauro Javier Cárdenas

    reading from his new novel Aphasia published by Farrar Straus Giroux Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—"an original, insubordinate novel" (New...

  • Thu 5
    November 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #1: Cookbooks and Gift Books

    Please join us on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great...

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