• 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...

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  • 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....

  • R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel, The Incendiaries, on Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm. Joining...

  • Paula Saunders, The Distance Home

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

    Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. In...

  • Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group

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

    Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend The Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a...

  • Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Queer authors Jim Provenzano, Margo Perin, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors

  • BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us!   Growing up as a fat girl,...

  • Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam...

  • Paul Matthew Maisano

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

    Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel, Bindi. Praise for Bindi “Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly...