• Meet Journalist and Anti-Death Penalty Activist, Michael Kroll

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

    Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces, some award-winning, most of which focus on our own criminal justice...

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  • Namwali Serpell in conversation with Ismail Muhammad

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

    reading from and discussing her new novel The Old Drift from Hogarth Books On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the...

  • All the Sweeter

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

    Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. About All The Sweeter All the...

  • InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES

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

        InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater), Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes), Vincent Chu (Like A Champion), Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility), and others, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...

  • Happy Endings: Lights, Camera, Fashun

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...

  • Heather Hansman

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

    Heather Hansman discusses her new book, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. Praise for Down River “Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo...

  • Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration

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

    America, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from...

  • Emma Bland Smith

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

    Emma Bland Smith discusses her new children's book To Live on an Island. About To Live on an Island When you live on an island, things...

  • An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South

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

    The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...

  • Babylon Salon : Rachel Howard, Kristen Cosby, Cheryl Ossola: Summer 2019

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Babylon Salon presents our Summer Reading Saturday, May 18, 2019, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring -- Rachel Howard  (The...

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  • Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation

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

    Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation launching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!  To...

  • READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster

    Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster May 19, 2019 7:00 PM Artists' Television Access 992 valencia street, san francisco, ca FREE Free for members

  • Max Porter

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

    celebrating the release of Lanny: a novel from Graywolf Press "An exhilarating, disquieting, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of...

  • You’re Doing What? Older Women’s Tales

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Tuesday, May 21, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  In the basement 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley YOU'RE DOING WHAT? Older Women's Tales of Achievement and Adventure, Compiled...

  • Memorial Tribute to Linda Gregg

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

    Falkirk Cultural Center This tribute celebrates Linda Gregg’s life and work, with poems and stories from poets and friends. Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander,...

  • Megan Griswold discusses The Book of Help

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

    Tuesday, May 21, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Megan Griswold discusses and signs copies of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. “In a world full...

  • THE RACKET!

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

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Edgar Kunz

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

    Edgar Kunz joins us to discuss his debut poetry collection, Tap Out . Praise for Tap Out “A whirlwind debut.Stories of sclerotic lives told in wrought images, Kunz...

  • Poetry at Pegasus: Cooperman | Kaupang | Ronda | George Bagdanov

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

    Thursday, May 23, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Pegasus Books Downtown welcomes Matthew Cooperman, Aby Kaupang, Margaret Ronda, and Kristin George Bagdanov, for a night of shared poetry from their...

  • Poets Jericho Brown and Dexter L. Booth

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Friday, May 24, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  The basement at the store 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Website Jericho Brown reads from The Tradition Jericho Brown...

  • Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    May 24, 2019: Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner Robert Eastwood lives in San Ramon, California. He is the author of Romer (Etruscan Press, 2018), and Snare (Broadstone Books, 2016). His...

  • Rolling In The Aisles

    1722 Taraval St., between 26th and 27th Avenues San Francisco San Francisco, CA

    Rolling In The Aisles  Saturday, May 25   6 pm Rolling Out 1722 Taraval St., between 26th and 27th Avenues San Francisco Our second annual...

  • Walker Talks!

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The last Sunday of each month (except June/July and December) from 2:30 to 4 pm The last Sunday of every month (except the summer months...