The Octopus Literary Salon is proud to present Babar in Exile, a quarterly commemoration and revival of the high energy San Francisco reading series of the 1990’s, Café Babar and Paradise Lounge.
The Hazel Reading series features readings by Natasha Dennerstein, Jennifer Barone, Alexandra Mattraw, Jenny Irizary, and Stacy Carlson.
Patricia Lockwood discusses and signs her memoir "Priestdaddy".
A special edition of VeteransWrite featuring Alan Quale.
Readings by Duncan McNaughton and Norma Cole.
Drop Leaf Press returns with a reading at Alley CatBooks to celebrate the release of two poetry chapbooks: Lehua Taitano’s SONOMA and Maxwell Shanley’s forthcoming chapbook.
Writer and feminist Laura Kipnis will discuss her latest book: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.
Yaa Gyasi appears at Pegasus Books Downtown for the paperback release of her celebrated debut novel Homegoing.
The release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel's occident, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!
Celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers - Laura Davis, Molly Prosser, Turi Fesler Steffen, and Laura Vrcek
Oakland’s Dick Cluster will introduce Kill the Ampaya!: the Best of Latin American Baseball Fiction, his newly published selection and translations of stories by writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around.
Graphic novel author Mariko Tamaki will discuss her book This One Summer.
Poetry reading hosted by Kevin Killian.
A reading by contributors.
Christopher Bernard reads from his new book of poems, Chien Lunatique, at Diesel, A Bookstore.
Readings by Adam Giannelli, Ben Hoffman, + Edgar Kunz.
Join us at this classic pub quiz, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary, some not).
Readings from Manic D Press!
Alia Malek discusses her new book, The Home That Was Our Country, with Michelline Marcom.
Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
A publication party for Edan Lepucki's book "Woman No. 17".
Irene Mathieu and a collection of special guest readers for an evening of Poetry!
Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak.
Come and recite your favorite poem by a published author. California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem.
Coming Attraction.
José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader - An Evening of Poetry.
One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun.