Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray.
Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel, Homegoing, at this book launch party.
Oakland's premiere literary showcase kicks off summer early with some seriously hot performance writers!
Pegasus Books presents a reading with poets Ruth Thompson (Crazing) and Jayne Benjulian (Five Sextillion Atoms).
The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges.
Poetry readings.
Ceremony + Book signing.
Celebrate Queer pride, these fabulous poets, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro!
10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building, a community space for women in San Francisco, http://womensbuilding.org.
Launch of her chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.
Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend's Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks, Abroad).
Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers.
Ekiss, Peterson, Rader, Saito + Taylor.
Flynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers, Inc.
We will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele, Maria T. Allocco, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams).
A new thriller by local author Joe Clifford.
Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading!
Copies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
Celebrating the release of Dated Emcees.
Here's to Us is an emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Max Porter to the store to discuss and sign his debut novella, Grief is the Thing with Feathers.
Sloane Crosley is the author of the bestsellers I Was Told There'd Be Cake (a Thurber Prize finalist) and How Did You Get This Number. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, she lives in Manhattan.
She has edited many published writers and mentors through the Path to Publishing program at Book Passage.
Reading from her new novel Brightfellow published by Coffee House Press.
he shows are short (one hour and change), punchy, pithy, informal, and well attended.
Readings celebrating LGBTQI writing!
Reads from his novel, Sensing Light, a stunning story of three doctors' struggles in San Francisco during the first decade of the AIDS epidemic.
In Falling, the award-winning children’s book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter’s illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir.
With Sean Carswell and Ron Tanner.