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  • September 2020

  • Thu 17

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom....

  • Thu 17

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: ALL THE FEELS 2020

    September 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal connection & mortal vulnerability w/Ned Buskirk, the You're...

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  • Thu 17

    Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Register to attend Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She'll be...

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  • Thu 17

    Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm featuring Peter Neil Carroll online on Zoom registration link to come Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His...

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  • Thu 17

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessica Garrison, The Devil’s Harvest

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's...

  • Thu 17

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    September 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT
    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

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  • Sat 19

    Jingletown Reading Presents Tomás Riley

    September 19, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Please Share. Please Invite. Join us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST. See Jingletown...

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Conversations with Authors – Ayad Akhtar (Virtual Event)

    September 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with...

  • Sun 20

    Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)

    September 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Meet some of the legendary, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman...

  • Sun 20

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery, Becoming a Good Creature

    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

  • Sun 20

    Conversations with Authors – Wade Davis (Virtual Event)

    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Wade Davis' inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena: River of Dreams, braids together memoir, history, and journalism to form both a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of...

  • Tue 22

    Poetry as Translation, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky

    September 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Eugene Ostashevsky, a Russian-American poet, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry...

  • Tue 22

    The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz

    September 22, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New...

  • Tue 22

    Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation, Stone-Garland

    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). This event is sponsored by...

  • Tue 22

    VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls

    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She'll be in conversation with Christina...

  • Wed 23

    Barry Gifford in conversation with Rob Christopher

    September 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    celebrates the release of his new book Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 published by Seven Stories Press In a special presentation, Barry Gifford will be joined...

  • Thu 24

    Tara Fickle in Conversation with Andrew Way Leong

    September 24, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a book talk with Tara Fickle about her new book The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and Aiiieeeee!: An...

  • Thu 24

    A Reading of Osip Mandelstam in English, with Ilya Bernstein

    September 24, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Globus Books presents a reading of Osip Mandelstam's poetry in English. Mandelstam is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891–1938) began as...

  • Thu 24

    Zoom Book Launch of The Lines Between Us: Author Rebecca D’Harlingue in Conversation with Author Jill G. Hall

    September 24, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, September 24 at 5 PM PDT for a Zoom book launch with author Rebecca D'Harlingue discussing her new novel, THE LINES BETWEEN US,...

  • Thu 24

    Virtual Event: Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marcelo Hernadez Castillo

    September 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us on Thursday, September 24 at 6pm PDT when Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his latest collection, Living Weapon, with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo on...

    Free
  • Thu 24

    Kerri Arsenault and John Freeman Discuss Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

    September 24, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Kerri Arsenault joins us via Crowdcast to discuss her debut book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (St. Martin's Press), with poet, editor, and writer John Freeman....

  • Fri 25

    Presentation: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

    September 25, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San Francisco...

    Free
  • Sat 26

    Bookshop’s Independent Bookstore Day

    September 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm PDT

    Independent Bookstore Day looks a little bit different this year. While we had planned to celebrate virtually alongside more than 450 other bookstores nationwide on August...

  • Sat 26

    Eastwind Book Club: Exit West

    September 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club!This September, we will be reading Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The book club meeting will take place via Zoom on...

  • Sat 26

    Jorma Taccone in Conversation with Tony Taccone-VIRTUALLY!

    September 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Jorma Taccone, member of the hit comedy trio The Lonely Island, (and Berkeley High alum), presents his debut picture book, Little Fox and the Wild Imagination, a...

  • Mon 28

    Joe Clifford in conversation with Jennifer Hillier – The Lakehouse (Virtual Event)

    September 28, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    After being cleared of his wife’s murder, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the...

  • Tue 29

    Virtual Event: Andreas Karelas, Katharine Hayhoe, & Bill McKibben

    September 29, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Presented by Beacon Press Join us on Tuesday, September 29 at 1pm PDT for the book launch of Andreas Karelas' Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community,...

  • Tue 29

    [Virtual Ruby] Q&A with Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF

    September 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a Q&A with New York Times–bestselling author Brit Bennett! We encourage you to read The Vanishing Half before this event. Find it at local...

    Free
  • Tue 29

    ReTargeting Iran

    September 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ltKvFjldSkuS9Em-JDXLgQ What will it take to reverse the current US...

  • Tue 29

    David Eagleman

    September 29, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    This event is online. With rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly, from Khaled Hosseini and Russell Brand alike, Livewired is a fascinating review of...

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