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  • Siobhan Adcock

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Siobhan Adcock discusses her new novel, The Completionist. Praise for The Completionist "Thoughtful, suspenseful, and shot through with dark humor, The Completionist creates a future world...

  • Poetry Flash: MARTÍN ESPADA, LAUREN MARIE SCHMIDT & GARY SOTO

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Martín Espada‘s new book of poems is Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. Sandra Cisneros calls him “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Recent collections...

  • After Hours: Joel Richard Paul – Defending the Constitution

    Main Reading Room, Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    Friday, August 3rd · 7:00pm From 1801-1835, Chief Justice John Marshall defined our Constitution and established the Supreme Court’s authority to hold the President and...

  • Thor Hanson

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Thor Hanson Presents Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.  "A wondrous,...

  • Elizabeth Rush

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Praise for Rising “Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a...

  • Bay Area Poets Coalition

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA   Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...

  • Thor Hanson at the SF Botanical Garden

    San Francisco Botanical Garden 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA - California

    Thor Hanson discusses his new book, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. This event will feature a talk in the Fragrance...

    Free – $9

  • David Zeltser, The Universe Ate My Homework

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome back David Zeltser with his new book The Universe Ate My Homework. Abby hates doing homework. In fact, she'll do just...

  • Spanish Book Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Las Elegidas - Jorge Volpi Trata de personas, violencia, prostitución y muerte; y, entreverado con todo esto, el amor. El Chino y Salvina salen de...

  • The Diesel Readers Book Group discuss THE CONSPIRACY

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of The Conspiracy, by Israel Centeno, on Monday August 6th at 7pm. When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot...

  • Chas Smith, Cocaine + Surfing

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes surf journalist Chas Smith for a discussion and signing of his latest book, Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love...

  • THE SF POWDER KEG

    Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Francisco

    AN EVENING OF POETRY  WITH Cathy Arellano Tanea Lunsford Lynx Ash Tré Phillips Tongo Eisen-Martin TUESDAY, AUGUST 7th @ 7PM FREE ENTRY @ INSTITUTE OF...

  • Undertone Mag Issue 002 Preview & Reading

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Undertone Mag is celebrating the launch of its second issue, "On Body," with a reading at E.M. Wolfman Books. Come by on August 8th for...

  • Sylvia Verange

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Wednesday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Sylvia Verange as she discusses her newest book (from Rare...

  • Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, and Robert Hass

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    DATE & TIME: Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 7 p.m. LOCATION: Books Inc. 1491 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94710 View a map and get directions....

  • Stephen Kessler

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Stephen Kessler joins us on Thursday, August 9th to read from his collection, Garage Elegies. About Garage Elegies In Garage Elegies, Stephen Kessler records with grief and wit, documentary realism and ranging...

  • Katharine Dion, The Dependents

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Katharine Dion, in conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie, for her new book, The Dependents—a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting...

  • Zines on desire // reading & release party

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    to celebrate our printing and release of read this when hungry, we're hosting a reading and sale !! including other zines on desire: symbiotic sexting...

  • BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. With Keith in conversation will be The Millions' Lydia Kiesling. Please join...

  • Jason Morris / Levon Helm

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith is proud to host the San Francisco launch for Jason Morris' first full-length collection of poetry, Levon Helm. Reading with Jason is the poet Nicholas James Whittington. Please...

  • Neighborhood Event: PASEO ARTISTICO

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    1-3pm Kid's Craft Table 4pm Peggy Reskin:  Dynamic Speaker and Author of Barefoot Frontrunners; Sex Women and Power 6:30pm Poetry - Per-versions with your host Arturo...

  • Epic Poetry Reading, Frederick Glaysher, at Sacred Grounds

    Sacred Grounds 2095 Hayes, Sacred Grounds

    In 1977, Frederick Glaysher took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting...

    Free

  • Nona Caspers

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Nona Caspers discusses her new novel, The Fifth Woman. Praise for The Fifth Woman “The Fifth Woman is stealthily astonishing from its first line to its last....

  • Big Ideas Reading Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration:...

  • Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Jessamyn Stanley, Every Body Yoga

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz's Women's Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. Bookshop is delighted...

  • Non-Fiction Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Sapiens by Yuval Harari One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens....