A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers' Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.
Rae Meadows w/ Kelly Corrigan.
This event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.
Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a launch party celebrating former Books Inc. bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall's adorable debut picture book, Also an Octopus!
Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto!
Donations will be called for throughout the night, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Bay Area impresario and haiku poet Amos White and CJC's Dillon Vado present an evening that promises to stretch the imagination in musical expression.
An open mic follows the featured readers.
Free readings!
First reading of the season!
Hosted by Jennifer Joseph with colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin's work.
Reading and in conversation.
Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book.
Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology, rootedness, longing, apocalypse, and the complex cartographies of desire.
The Booksmith presents John Jodzio, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk, Dave Madden, author of If You Need Me I'll Be Over There, and Kara Vernor, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.
A haunting, vibrant novel, Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer.
Snacks, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served!
FREE admission – Cash bar exotica.
This special program is not submissions–based.
Poetry reading and record release party!
Poetry Reading: Chana Block and Susan Cohen.
Copies of A Dark Ordinary and On Ghosts will be available for purchase at the event.
Authors from two generations present their latest works.
Liane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and The Husband's Secret, as well as the New York Times bestseller What Alice Forgot and The Hypnotists Love Story.
Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.
coffee & canela are free during readings!
Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, with Zyzzyva magazine's Oscar Villalon.
Only event in San Francisco!
Free and open to the public!
Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday, September 15, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home!