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  • February 2021

  • Wed 24

    Anne Corley Baum – Small Mistakes, Big Consequences

    February 24, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Small Mistakes, Big Consequences for Interviews is a lighthearted look at the top 20 interviewing mistakes that people make without realizing the potential consequences. Learn...

  • Wed 24

    Lydia Millet Discussing her novel, A Children’s Bible

    February 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Lydia Millet joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of A Children's Bible (W.W. Norton), one of the New York Times "Top Ten...

  • Thu 25

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Tess Taylor & Danusha Laméris

    February 25, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 25

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Ed Frauenheim / Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection

    February 25, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with Ed Frauenheim for his new book Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection, co-authored...

  • Thu 25

    Lidia Yuknavich in conversation with Lance Olsen

    February 25, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    reading from their work and talking about literature Lidia Yuknavich celebrates the paperback release of Verge: stories published by Riverhead Books Named one of the Best...

  • Fri 26

    HIGH DAWN 6: LAWRENCE / LEUNG / LOU / BASU

    February 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST
    Zoom

    Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the sixth installment of HIGH DAWN, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay...

    Free
  • Fri 26

    *Postponed* VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Karla Brundage, Jennifer Hasegawa, Tureeda Mikell & Kim Shuck

    February 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
  • Sat 27

    Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow on Instagram IGTV

    February 27, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

    reading Your Name is a Song.  "This lovely celebration of African American culture, featuring a Muslim family, offers a fresh way to look at the tradition...

  • Sat 27

    Eastwind Book Club: The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

    February 27, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Join Eastwind Book Club this February as we read Gina Apostol's novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. About this Event Eastwind Book Club is...

  • Sat 27

    Sesshu Foster with Arturo Ernesto Romo

    February 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines published by City Lights Books ---------- This is...

  • Sun 28

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #57

    February 28, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
    online

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free – $200
  • Sun 28

    High Dawn 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis

    February 28, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
    online

    Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium RSVP for Zoom link: spt-march.eventbrite.com Bahaar Ahsan is a poet in the Bay Area. Bahaar’s work is...

    Free
  • March 2021

  • Mon 1

    Ismail Muhammad & Marie Mutsuki Mockett

    March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST
    online

    Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer, a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a board member at...

    Free
  • Tue 2

    Virtual Event: Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter with Raina Telgemeier

    March 2, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MARCH 2 AT 5PM PT FOR THE LAUNCH OF MEGAN WAGNER LLOYD AND MICHELLE MEE NUTTER'S BOOK, ALLERGIC, WITH RAINA TELGEMEIER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

  • Tue 2

    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks | GGP Online Book Club

    March 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Year of Wonders: A Novel of...

  • Tue 2

    Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami

    March 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Laila Lalami Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights and Grove Atlantic Press celebrate the release of Viet Thanh Nguyen's new...

  • Wed 3

    Book Passage Presents: Carol Edgarian with Tobias Wolff – Vera

    March 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers an astonishing feat of imagination, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco—a city leveled by quake...

  • Wed 3

    Courtney Zoftness with Rita Bullwinkel and Mat Johnson

    March 3, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating the publication of Courtney Zoftness' new memoir Spilt Milk published by McSweeney's ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City...

  • Wed 3

    Contemporary Classics – Interior Chinatown

    March 3, 2021 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    Patricia Holt, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, continues her popular book group, “Contemporary Classics.” A book should stand the test of time...

  • Thu 4
    Mary Jo Bang

    Berkeley Lunch Poems: Mary Jo Bang

    March 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST
    online

    Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    Isabel Allende – The Soul of a Woman (Virtual Event)

    March 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. “When...

  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Look Alive, with K-Ming Chang, Alicia Mountain, Arhm Choi Wild & Meg Day

    March 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's debut full-length collection of poems Look Alive. She'll be joined for a...

  • Thu 4

    Virtual Event: Jamie Figueroa and Marie-Helene Bertino

    March 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON THURSDAY, MARCH 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMIE FIGUEROA IS JOINED BY MARIE-HELENE BERTINO TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT NOVEL, BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, EXPLORER, ON ZOOM!...

  • Thu 4

    Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter, reading and in conversation

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Remote access event, free and open to the public REGISTER TO ATTEND —or— Watch this program at YouTube With emcee, Carolina de Robertis Supported in part by...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author Mikki Kendall who will discuss Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot.  Registration for this free...

  • Thu 4

    Online Book Launch of THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK with Author Patricia Bracewell

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Patricia Bracewell to discuss her new novel, THE STEEL BENEATH THE...

  • Thu 4

    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!

    March 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
    online

    During Women's History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Melissa Valentine

    March 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST
    online

    Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Melissa Valentine Reading

    March 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Friday, March 5, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Melissa Valentine is an award-winning writer from Oakland, California,...

  • Fri 5

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #49

    March 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free – $200
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