We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner, currently teaching...
reading from his new novel The Lucky Star: A Novel published by Viking/Penguin The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the...
Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet, an open mic and great drinks and treats! Alameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts....
There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and...
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This...
Local writers Elwin Cotman, Vernon Keeve, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. Elwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whee the post-industrial landscape was...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm...
Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. Praise for Weather “This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong “Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds...
reads from her new collection of essays, Try To Get Lost Through the author (TM)s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the...
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
Jenny Offill, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the...
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism....
The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event,...
Join us as we celebrate three amazing children's books: Sam! (written by Dani Gabriel, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo), I Am Sausal Creek/Soy El...
Stephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books! ...
“American Sutra” discussion on author panel for the 2020 National Day of Remembrance. Time TBD. Sponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of...
Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA. Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...
Day of Remembrance: Duncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams...
ALAN KAUFMAN Alan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers,...
NEXT THERE: THERE 32 will be Saturday, February 22, 2020, at East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland, guests TBA. THERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco...
Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin).
Come out to Kiran Bhat's upcoming reading from his new book We of the Forsaken World at Oakland's Café Uccello (340 14th St) next Sunday...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Juliette Wade, Tiffany Trent, and Mike Chen, in conversation with Bay Area writer,...
Robots, like any technology, are not “objective” or “universal”; instead, machines reveal the process of social formation. This talk by poet, scholar, and new media...
Yellow Earth from Haymarket Books Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All...
Aria Aber was raised in Germany, where she was born to Afghan refugees. Her debut book, Hard Damage, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry...
Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry Good Boys published by Tin House Books In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability,...
John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor and feature film director. His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award...
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes JoAnne Silver Jones for a discussion and signing of her new book, Headstrong. After a sudden assault by a stranger left Jones with severe traumatic...