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  • October 2020

  • Thu 8

    Aarti Namdev Shahani – Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (Virtual Event)

    October 8, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with journalist and...

  • Thu 8

    San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck’s Poem Jam

    October 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    online

    featuring  special guests, themes and writing groups. In October we honor Latinx Heritage month with poets Josiah Luis Alderete, Lourdes Figuroa and more. Josiah Luis Alderete is a full...

    Free
  • Thu 8

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Paul Madonna / Come to Light

    October 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Paul Madonna to launch his new illustrated novel Come to Light. ** Please note ** >  This event is free and...

  • Thu 8

    Virtual Event: Neal Karlen on Prince

    October 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Thursday, October 8 at 6pm PDT when Neal Karlen joins us to discuss his book, This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On+Off the Record on...

  • Fri 9

    13th Annual Life is Living Festival

    October 9, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - October 11, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Life is Living is going virtual! Mark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th, online. Live Music Theater...

  • Fri 9

    Virtual Event: Shannon Lee and Jeff Chang

    October 9, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Friday, October 9 at 7pm PDT when Shannon Lee, discusses her book, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee, with author Jeff Chang on...

  • Sat 10

    Keir Graff Discussing The Tiny Mansion | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom

    October 10, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel, THE...

  • Sat 10

    Building Bridges Book Club

    October 10, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

    We're excited to announce the Building Bridges Book Club, a new partnership with the Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library. The Marin Poetry Center Building...

  • Sat 10

    Poetry Reading: Barbara Jane Reyes and Friends

    October 10, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    In honor of Filipinx American History Month, Eastwind Books is hosting a poetry reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes, Monica Ong, Marianne Chan, and Kimberly Quiogue...

  • Sat 10

    Resistencia Feminista: Contemporary Mexican Poetry

    October 10, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PDT

    Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations. Register online now to get...

  • Sat 10

    Every Day We Get More Illegal

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino...

  • Sat 10

    Libra Party Online

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Please register in advance for this party: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN... come celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we'll...

  • Sat 10

    Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River, Drop...

  • Sat 10

    Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George – One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)

    October 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of...

  • Sun 11

    Conversations with Authors – Catherine Grace Katz (Virtual Event)

    October 11, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Catherine Grace Katz's first book, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War, draws on newly accessible sources to...

  • Mon 12

    Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua

    October 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...

    Free
  • Mon 12

    LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL

    October 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it...

  • Tue 13

    VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)

    October 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation...

  • Tue 13

    Joe Cottonwood

    October 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry...

  • Tue 13

    Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails

    October 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season's great new culinary and cocktail titles. We...

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

    October 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet....

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line

    October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and...

  • Wed 14

    Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera....

  • Wed 14

    Flash Fiction Forum’s Fall Reading Series

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems - live on Zoom!

  • Thu 15

    VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...

  • Thu 15

    C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...

  • Thu 15

    San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...

    Free
  • Thu 15

    Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...

  • Thu 15

    Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...

  • Fri 16

    THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    October 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT
    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
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