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  • March 2021
  • Wed 24
    March 24, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Carla Malden – Shine Until Tomorrow (Online Event)

    Social misfit Mari Caldwell desperately wants to get on with her life. If only she could get there faster—specifically to Yale—and leave behind all the...

  • Wed 24
    March 24, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

    Sky Nelson-Isaacs: Leap to Wholeness

    The Dance Palace presents local Sky Nelson-Isaacs for a presentation of his latest book, Leap to Wholeness (North Atlantic Books). This is a free event. REGISTER HERE...

  • Thu 25
    March 25, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Jesse McCarthy

    discussing his new book Who Will Pay Reparation On My Soul: Essays published by Liveright Books/W.W, Norton ---------- This is a virtual event that will...

  • Fri 26
    March 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #52

    online

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free – $200
  • Fri 26
    March 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    HIGH DAWN 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis

    Virtual

    Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the seventh installment of HIGH DAWN, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay...

    Free
  • Fri 26
    March 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Shira Spector and Phoebe Gloeckner

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, MARCH 26 AT 6PM PT WHEN SHIRA SPECTOR IS JOINED BY PHOEBE GLOECKNER TO DISCUSS HER GRAPHIC MEMOIR, RED ROCK BABY CANDY, ON ZOOM!...

  • Fri 26
    March 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Eastwind Book Club: The Sympathizer

    Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to...

  • Sat 27
    March 27, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Lisa Scottoline with Lisa See (Virtual Event)

    Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that...

  • Sat 27
    March 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    At The Door: Chapter Two

    online

    Join us for our monthly reading series, featuring only Black & Brown voices. We're already a chapter in - join us for the incredible lineup...

    Free
  • Sat 27
    March 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Southeast Asian American Poetry Reading with Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri

    Monica Sok and Krysada Phounsiri will be joined by youth poets from Oakland's Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants and UC Berkeley's Southeast Asian Student...

  • Sun 28
    March 28, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Barbara Hamby and Barbara Ras

    online

    Poetry Flash presents a virtual poetry reading by Barbara Hamby, Holoholo, and Barbara Ras, The Blues of Heaven, online via Zoom, free, 3:00 pm PDT (Register to attend:...

    Free
  • Sun 28
    March 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Carribean Fragoza

    celebrating the launch of her new book Eat the Mouth that Feeds You published by City Lights Books ---------- This is a virtual event that...

  • Tue 30
    March 30, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Ji Hyang Padma / Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the Work of Buddhist Healers

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Ji Hyang Padma and her new book Field of Blessings: Ritual & Consciousness in the...

  • Tue 30
    March 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Nick Greene

    JOIN US TUESDAY, MARCH 30 AT 6PM PT WHEN NICK GREENE DISCUSSES HIS BOOK, HOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS : WHAT GAME DESIGNERS, ECONOMISTS, BALLET CHOREOGRAPHERS, AND...

  • Tue 30
    March 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Kim Addonizio with Danusha Laméris

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Bay Area poet Kim Addonizio for a reading and discussion of her new collection, Now We're Getting Somewhere. Addonizio will be in...

  • Tue 30
    March 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela Veda

    Please join us on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of WE RUN THE TIDES by Vendela...

  • Wed 31
    March 31, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Book Passage Presents: Martha Hall Kelly – Sunflower Sisters

    Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse...

  • April 2021
  • Thu 1
    April 1, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri Writers discuss Bajani’s novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins

    Andrea Bajani is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri to celebrate the publication of his novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins (translated...

  • Thu 1
    April 1, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen, reading and in conversation

    online

    Remote access event, free and open to the public Registration link pending With emcee, Brent Awa Jensen Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Details...

    Free
  • Fri 2
    April 2, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Aiden Thomas

    online

    Friday, April 2, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link) Aiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA...

    Free
  • Fri 2
    April 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #53

    online

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free – $200
  • Sat 3
    April 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Jillian C York in conversation with Ben Tarnoff

    discussing Jillian York's new book Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism published by Verso Books This is a virtual event that...

  • Sat 3
    April 3, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Sue Monk Kidd (Online Event)

    An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York...

  • Mon 5
    April 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Better Ancestors: Kai Sugioka-Stone, Amanda Muñiz, Isabelle Khoo-Miller, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin

    online

    Quiet Lightning presents the second Better Ancestors, featuring readings and performance by Kai Sugioka-Stone, Amanda Muñiz, Isabelle Khoo-Miller, Arlene Biala and Melissa Merin! This show curated by the artists who performed at...

    Free
  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky

    This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the...

  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Julie Lythcott-Haims with Adam Smiley Poswolsky

    This event is online. Guests who pre-order a book at the time of registration will also receive temporary access to a post-event recording after the...

  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Hoa Nguyen with Garrett Caples

    Hoa Nguyen reads from her new poetry collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure published by Wave Books ---------- This is a virtual event...

  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Bettye Kearse – The Other Madisons (Book Discussion & Film Screening)

    In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues...

  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Launch for Natalie Baszile / We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy, with Konda Mason

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Natalie Baszile for her book We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land,...

  • Tue 6
    April 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Sanjena Sathian

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, APRIL 6 AT 6PM PT WHEN SANJENA SATHIAN JOINS US FOR THE LAUNCH OF HER NOVEL, GOLD DIGGERS, ON ZOOM! Zoom Login Info Please...

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