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  • Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

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

    Bookshop is delighted to welcome Lyndsay Faye, author of the best-selling staff favorites Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham, for a reading and signing of her new novel, The...

  • InsideStorytime WORKAROUNDS

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act), Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys), James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory), Dinika Amaral, and Ralph Paone, will be at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101...

  • Austin Smith and Dora Malech

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the...

  • David St. John & Jane Mead

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    David St. John has won many significant prizes, including both the Rome Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of...

  • JAMIE WEIL at Books Inc. Alameda

    Books Inc. Alameda 1344 Park Street, Alameda, CA, United States

    Writer and youth mental health advocate Jamie Weil shares her powerful novel for young adults, First Break. When your first break from home is your first break with reality...

  • Tessa Hadley

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

    Tessa Hadley returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to read from her new novel, Late in the Day. "Perceptive, finely wrought....Hadley is a writer of the first order, and...

  • Book Discussion: The Art of Relevance

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? Join us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book, The Art of Relevance,...

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from her new novel Sketchtasy from Arsenal Pulp Press Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's...

  • RANDY SHAW at Books Inc. Mountain View

    Books Inc. Mountain View 301 Castro St, Mountain View , CA, United States

    Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, discusses his compelling new book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. Generation Priced...

  • MICHELLE CADY at Books Inc. Berkeley

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

    Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance...

  • The Fiction of Amparo Dávila

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation celebrating the release of The Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila by Amparo Dávila translated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson published...

  • Kristin Wilson, Others’ Milk

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

    THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • YANovCon at the Millbrae Library

    Millbrae Library 1 Library Avenue, Millbrae, CA, United States

    The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today's top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates...

  • Rolling Writers ‘Rolling this Way’

    Rolling Out Cafe 1722 Taraval St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: Beginnings Saturday, January 26, 2019, 6 pm Rolling Out 1722 Taraval St. San Francisco To submit work...

  • Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg

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

    Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg discussing Stone's new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, "a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life...

  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of...

  • Spanish Book Discussion Group

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

    El Impostor - Javier Cercas ¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue...

  • Douglas Rushkoff

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    discussing the subject of his new book Team Human published by W.W. Norton Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a...

  • Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro

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

    "America does not negotiate with terrorists." But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist...

  • BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us!   In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual...

  • MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto

    Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With pieces featured in The Mary Sue, The Portalist, and Tor, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel, Here and Now and Then. To save his daughter, he'll...

  • Sally Wen Mao

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • BINDERY: On the Cusp

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The events that define us aren't always immediately apparent. That's the idea behind On the Cusp, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning...

  • Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World by Tosh Berman

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount, Executive Director, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland...

  • MFA Reading: Wendy C. Ortiz

    USF Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir, Bruja. In 2016, Bustle named her one of "9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work...

  • The Racket!

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

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders