• YANovCon at the Millbrae Library

    Millbrae Library 1 Library Avenue, Millbrae, CA, United States

    The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today's top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates...

  • Rolling Writers ‘Rolling this Way’

    Rolling Out Cafe 1722 Taraval St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: Beginnings Saturday, January 26, 2019, 6 pm Rolling Out 1722 Taraval St. San Francisco To submit work...

  • Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg discussing Stone's new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, "a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life...

  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of...

  • Spanish Book Discussion Group

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

    El Impostor - Javier Cercas ¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue...

  • Douglas Rushkoff

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

    discussing the subject of his new book Team Human published by W.W. Norton Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a...

  • Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro

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

    "America does not negotiate with terrorists." But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist...

  • BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us!   In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual...

  • MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto

    Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With pieces featured in The Mary Sue, The Portalist, and Tor, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel, Here and Now and Then. To save his daughter, he'll...

  • Sally Wen Mao

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

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • BINDERY: On the Cusp

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The events that define us aren't always immediately apparent. That's the idea behind On the Cusp, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning...

  • Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World by Tosh Berman

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

    We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount, Executive Director, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland...

  • MFA Reading: Wendy C. Ortiz

    USF Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir, Bruja. In 2016, Bustle named her one of "9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work...

  • The Racket!

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Oakland First Friday Storyteller Series

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    CHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Bring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling, hands on arts activities, tiny bookmaking projects, food, music and...

    Free
  • Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World

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

    TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the...

    Free
  • Oakland First Friday Teen Poetry Open Mic

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    TEEN POETRY OPEN MIC (7-9pm) Bring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Oakland...

    Free
  • Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems, Half-Hazard, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen...

  • BAPC OPEN POETRY READING

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA   Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...

  • Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes

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

    Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson, Truong Tran, Max Shanley...

    Free
  • City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas. Saturday, February 2nd, 8:00-9:00pm, San Francisco, CA: SF Library, Main Branch https://www.nightofideassf.com/   What...

  • What If: The Fiction of the Future

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    GET TICKETS Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films...

  • David Thomson / Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How...

  • The Poetry Center presents Vincent Katz & Jane Gregory

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    4:30pm at The Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco free

  • Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    7:00pm Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease read at Alley Cat Books 3036 24th Street San Francisco

  • Tess Brown-Lavoie, Leena Joshi, Victoria Ruiz and others!

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Come out for a night of poetry! Tess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence, RI. Lite Year, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series, is her...