Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...
Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...
Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...
SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...
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...
Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...
Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...
Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...
Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...
So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...
Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...
Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi celebrating Ali Araghi's new novel The Immortals of Tehran published by Melville House --------- This is a virtual...
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new...
Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. Praise for Cuppy and Stew "CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the...
celebrating the release of Alli Warren's new poetry book Little Hill published by City Lights Event co-presented by We Are the Voices This is a virtual...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes...
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She'll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in...
Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. an online community event for enlivening...
The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION, JUNE 4th, 7PM ZOOM LINK TO COME You know what's good right now? Distraction. We know it looks...
Please join us on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George, discussing his new historical fiction...
During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...
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...
Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book, co-authored with Zara Houshmand, Running Toward Mystery:...
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward...
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....
Join us on Crowdcast on Friday June 5th at 7PM PDT for a conversation between author Eric Cervini and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly on The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of...
Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon...
We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion, we can rewrite...
presents a special online performance Saturday, June 6, 2020 5pm PST / 8pm EST Register for our Zoom gathering presents a special online performance Saturday,...