Poets Susan Dambroff and David Hathwell and novelists Anne Raeff and Rob Rosen will read from new work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco's "Contrasts: Poetry...
Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown Rita Bullwinkel celebrates the release of Belly Up: Stories from A Strange Object Press Lisa Brown presents a sneak preview of an...
Institute Of advanced Uncertainty hosts wordWind Chorus: Q.R. Hand Jr. Lewis Jordan Brian Auerbach With Tongo Eisen-Martin Tuesday, May 8, 2018 Doors: 6:30 p.m. Program:7:00 p.m. Free entry...
The Bindery hosts the launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, with editors Grant Faulkner,Lynn Mundell, and Beret Olsen. Please join us! Gems, shards,...
Matt Miller reads from his new poetry collection, The Wounded for the Water. Also featuring readings by Mario Chard and Peter LaBerge. Praise for The Wounded for the...
discussing the subject of his new book Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change from Verso Books...
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Roman Muradov discusses his new book, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. Praise for On Doing Nothing “Roman Muradov’s whimsical, clever, and companionable book On Doing...
The Bindery hosts an evening with So Sad Today author Melissa Broder reading from her anticipated debut novel, The Pisces. With her in conversation is The Millions editor, Lydia Kiesling...
Opening Statement by Jale Yoldas (Goethe Institut San Francisco) with guest appearances by Alan Black, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, and Richard Walker. Moderator Frederick Young On the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of...
The Bindery hosts Clemantine Wamariya for her extraordinary debut, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, and her coauthor Elizabeth Weil, who collaborated intimately with Clemantine to write this luminescent book. Clemantine...
Kent Harrington discusses his new novel, Last Ferry Home, with Kevin Hunsanger. Praise for Kent Harrington "Strong, hard-edged stuff by a writer in complete control of...
Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming),Ten, (BlazeVOX , forthcoming), Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative), Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press), Flashes (Shearsman Books), Holiday (Shearsman Books), Waves (Portable...
Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman...
Friday, May 11th - 7:00pm Main Reading Room Daniel Handler returns to emcee as baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two...
Eckes, Seidenberg, and Spencer Smith
Brenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. About the poets: Brenda Hillman is an activist, writer, editor,...
The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley cities, along with special guests. Indigo Moor, current laureate of Sacramento, and...
Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...
Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for...
The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! When she applied to Harvard Law School,...
Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick...
This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements,...
Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading, "Murderous Fiction: 3...
Carmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...
Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker, Nellie was honored by Oakland...
The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...
Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...
Mark Greenside Reads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, a sequel of sorts to I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do), about which the San...
Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....