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  • Summer of Love

    Cliché Noe Gifts + Home 4175 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Katherine Powell Cohen will read from and discuss her book.

  • Kirsty Murray

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Not Your Mother's Book Club proudly presents award-winning author Kirsty Murray in celebration of the story collection, Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean.

  • Because We come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Poetry reading and discussion of the important contributions poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds.

  • Just Breathe: Kala Storytelling Night

    Kala Art Institute 2990 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    This is a benefit for the ACLU. $10 suggested donation taken at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds.

  • Lisa See

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Lisa See as she presents her new novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.

  • Ivy Anderson + Devon Angus

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award.

  • Elif Batuman + Yiyun Li

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    A conversation with Elif Batuman and Yiyun Li.

  • Peg Alford Pursell

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Peg Alford Pursell presents her book Show Her a Flower, a Bid, a Shadow.

  • Jim Shepard

    Zoetrope Cafe 916 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Celebrating the release of his new collection of stories The World to Come.

  • Night of the Graphic Novelists

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Panel of graphic novelists discussion and reading.

  • Uptown Fridays: Emji Spero + Shelley Wong

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featuring readings by Emji Speero and Shelley Wong, with music by Blowdryer Punk Soul (with Jennifer Blowdryer + Michelle Gonazales).

  • Omnidawn Reading

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    More info coming soon!

  • Jim Shephard + Ron Hansen

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Jim Shephard in conversation with Ron Hansen.

  • Noe Valley Authors Festival

    Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Neighborhood authors present their books to the public.

  • Swan Day Feminist Showcase

    LIMINAL 3037 38th Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers.

  • Bird & Beckett: Walker Talks

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Kerouac and Lamantia: A Poetics Of The Inner Self

  • Stories of Stranded Deportees

    LIMINAL 3037 38th Avenue, Oakland, CA, United States

    Excerpts from journals kept through the deportation process, as well as a panel discussion about deportation within Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities in Oakland

  • Fresh & Best: Farid Matuk & Tonya Foster

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Farid Matyk and Tonya Foster as part of a Special Edition Fresh & Best poetry reading series.

  • Terry Tarnoff

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Terry Tarnoff presents his book, The Reflectionist.

  • Jim Shephard

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Jim Shepard presents his new collection, The World to Come.

  • Farid Matuk

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Mills College presents Farid Matuk.

  • Folio Night, Live!

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Informal community reading series

  • Jon Raymond

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Jon Raymond discusses his new novel, Freebird, with Zoetrope's Michael Ray.

  • Sarah Anderson

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Sarah Andersen presents her new book Big Mushy Happy Lump

  • The Writing Life Panel

    USF McClaren Complex 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Night two of the Emerging Writers Festival, featured writers participate in a Q&A.

  • Beat Poetry w/ Larry Beckett

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    This is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s, reconsidered as literature.

  • Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #85

    Rebound Bookstore 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, United States

    Sci-fi/Fantasy reading with Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne