Alan Brennert
Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United Statesreads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
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Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...
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Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, OaklandMeet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...
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Chloe Aridjis
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...
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Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThursday, February 21 - 7:00 pm The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University I eat crumbs out of the baby's neck I'm glad...
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Marina Mularz
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMarina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...
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Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes
St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CAOakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...
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George Higgins & Charlotte Innes
St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CAGeorge Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...
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THERE 28
The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United StatesTHERE 28 will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...
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Clearly Meant presents James Cagney
Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...
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Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CAMore than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...
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Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from...
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Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, caFor the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...
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SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...
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Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statescelebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...
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Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandTuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...
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Nona Caspers and Friends
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us to celebrate Nona Caspers' latest book, the novel, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal...
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Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, OaklandJoin us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our February book at the January...
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Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we
The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States#we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...
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Lloyd Kahn
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesA Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn's Latest Book, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast from Shelter Publications Preceded by Discussion and Vintage...
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Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCome celebrate Lew Ellingham's 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book, 2018; new narrative exponent, poet, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about...
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THE RACKET!
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesDetails soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
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Nayomi Munaweera
SJSU MLK Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA, United StatesTHURSDAY February 28, 2019 7PM MLK Library, Room 225/229 San José State University Reading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Professor of...
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Mikhail Iossel, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesIn Conversation with Will Durst Come to the scathing! Join Russian émigré Iossel (journalist, novelist) and the Bay's most illustrious political satirist Durst in what...
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Jen Beagin
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJen Beagin discusses her new novel, Vacuum in the Dark Praise for Jen Beagin “How can you resist a love story in which the object of...
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James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesAbout the Book Tens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book...
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Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco, CA RSVP Translators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true...
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Children’s Storyteller Series
Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United StatesCHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Come enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children's book series "Too-Tall Foyle"....
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What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States***Friday, March 1st, Wolfman Books, Downtown Oakland, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By Alec West Philip...