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As Americans are one step from deciding who will be our next president, Geri Spieler and Rick Kaplowitz, the authors of San Francisco Values: Common Ground for Getting America Back...

Eastwind Books and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online panel conversation with authors Enrique de la Cruz, Patty Enrado, Tony Robles,...

discussing Joshua Bennett's new book Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man published by Belknap Press/Harvard University Press This is a virtual...

** PLEASE NOTE ** >  This event will be virtual and free of charge. Connection information is forthcoming. Please save the date and join us! >  Order...

Eastwind Books of Berkeley and the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) present an online conversation with authors Juanita Tamayo Lott, Dr. LaNada War Jack...

Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Man V. Nature author Diane Cook for her anticipated debut novel, The New Wilderness. She'll be in conversation with Rahawa Haile. Please join...

Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who...

Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. We...

Jessica J. Lee is joined in conversation by Bathsheba Demuth to celebrate the publication of her book, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My...

Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

Sunday, August 16th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT Christine Montross, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Calahan Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us...

Sign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 A monthly Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens...

Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This third event in the series features Aya Gruber discussing her...

Join us on Tuesday, August 18 at 5pm PDT when Bridget Quinn discusses her new book She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next with Carol...

discussing Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism published by AK Press This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the...

Join us for an online event with bestselling author Alexandra Fuller who will discuss her new memoir Travel Light, Move Fast, a beautifully written and deeply...

Wednesday, August 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT Darin Strauss in conversation with Kelly Corrigan Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every...

This event is online. Amidst the political morass the US has become, some are voicing the unthinkable: has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to...

Thursday, August 20, 7:00pm featuring Caroline Goodwin online on Zoom registration link to come bio to come Upcoming at Third Thursdays: September: Peter Carroll

Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn for a presentation of his new...

Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...

SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center.  For a month QTIPOC writers...

Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children's story time featuring a live read-aloud of Filipino children's book, Jack and Agyu, with author Justine Villanueva....

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with Transit Books present Editor Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft    celebrating the new book The Tree...

Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her...