A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.
Kick off the last weekend of September by coming to see four outstanding poets!
Third reader this season!
Please join us for an evening of literary-laced bonhomie to celebrate Zach Wyner and his debut novel, What We Never Had, Rare Bird Books.
Reading and celebration of fifteen Marin Poetry Center members with new books!
Join City Lights' Poetry Editor Garrett Caples, and Berkeley-based poet, Julien Poirier, for a presentation from their co-edited, posthumous Frank Lima anthology, Incidents of Travel in Poetry.
Celebrate the release of Holtland’s chapbook, INNER RIVER, available now from Drop Leaf Press.
Come together Friday, September 30 at 7pm to celebrate Mark's words and life.
In his revealing memoir The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar).
21st Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival "Stands Up for the Earth" with dynamic readings over thirty poets and writers!
Open reading for all ages!
Join us for a very special evening as we launch five new chapbooks in our Fall 2016 Chapbook Collection into the universe.
Readings hosted by Peter Kline.
Wulf Losee lives and works in the Bay Area.
Free admission, all ages, full menu and bar.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks.
Danish writer Josefine Klougart reads from One of Us is Sleeping, the first of her novels translated into English.
In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding.
Anne Raeff in conversation with Anthony Marra for the book launch of The Jungle Around Us, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Ted Greenwald (1942-2016) was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and lived in New York City his entire life.
The Booksmith presents iO Tillett Wright / Darling Days at Second Act.
Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, in conversation with ZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon.
Palmer’s new book of poems, The Laughter of the Sphinx, was published in 2016 by New Directions.
Featuring Karen Joy Fowler, author of both novels and short story collections.
A reading with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia and McSweeney's poets Zubair Ahmed and Rebecca Lindenberg.
Anthony Marra, Kyle Boelte, and student contributors Isaac Schott-Rosenfield, Sian Ee, and Emma Hardison join us to celebrate the 12th annual installment of the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology.
Come out to celebrate Writer in Residence Brooke Doak's project, deshret, take part in our youth open mic, and paint a self portrait as part of our upcoming project with mocha | museum of children's art.
The literary persona of Laura Albert. JT/Sarah will be in conversation with Justin Desmangles.
Translator Deborah Smith in conversation with South Korean writer Bae Suah about her novel, A Greater Music.