San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...
Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...
Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...
THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...
Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....
The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit "Would That" at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery The...
Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу), translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky,...
Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City,...
Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of...
Kelliane Parker Susan Dambroff Keith M. Gaboury Daniel Ari Elaine de Coligny Phyllis Houseman noemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)
This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She'll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! ** Please note **...
Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...
Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...
celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...
Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He'll be in conversation...
Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....
We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone's favorite construction crew is back...
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...
Celebrating three awesome new books! Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...
Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...
An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...
Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...
The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...
The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...
THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...
Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...
Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....
D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello