• Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg

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

    discussiing the subject of To Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master by Benedicte Maurseth published by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press Dialogues...

  • Adam Rippon / Beautiful on the Outside

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

    Booksmith hosts a special event with Adam Rippon, the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics, for his memoir Beautiful on...

  • Jodie Hollander: My Dark Horses

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

    Jodie Hollander reads from her new poetry collection, My Dark Horses. With readings by poets Francesca Bell and Amanda Moore. About My Dark Horses Set against the...

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  • Open Call for Poets

    Mangalam Center 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Mangalam Center’s Mindful Art Gallery presents: The Joy of Being a Poet – Mindful Expression Through Poetry We are looking for poems that explore the...

  • Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    October 25, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley Bruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay...

  • Su Hwang: Bodega

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

    Su Hwang reads from her new poetry collection, Bodega. Praise for Bodega “If we are not in denial, to name one life, one narrative, we must...

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  • Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St, Berkeley, CA

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA Deborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She...

  • Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographical Novel with Alex Chee

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Explore the entangling issues of life, literature, and politics in Alexander Chee’s Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographic Novel.  Learn how we form our...

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  • Jarett Kobek

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

    celebrating the release of his new novel Only Americans Burn in Hell published by We've Heard You Like Books 'Brilliantly funny ... the best satire...

  • Gary Janetti: Do You Mind If I Cancel?

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

    Gary Janetti discusses his new book, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). Praise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? "Gary...

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  • Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow

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

    Hannu Rajaniemi, Meg Elison, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. About Future Tense Fiction Future Tense Fiction is a...

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  • Susan Steinberg presents Machine

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Susan Steinberg presents Machine Wednesday, October 30, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Susan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning,...

  • SoMa Lurk Book Launch & Reading

    Project Kalahati 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

    Join on First Friday. Book description: SoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents, channels, and writes from the...

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  • Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything – Book Launch

    Jered's Pottery 5743A Horton St., Emeryville, CA, United States

    Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a...

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  • Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children

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

    Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. Praise for Tehran Children “A revelatory history, a saga of flight and welcome, of...

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  • BAPC OPEN POETRY READING

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

    BAPC OPEN POETRY READING   Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 201 November 2, December 7 3:00 - 5:00 PM     STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St.,...

  • Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: Holding on to Nothing

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

    Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel, Holding on to Nothing. Praise for Holding on to Nothing “Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the...

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  • 50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt

    Pegasus Books on Solano 1855 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt Pegasus Books Solano Sunday, November 3, 2pm - 3pm Pegasus families, come join author Wendy Gorton...

  • Ramesh Srinivasan

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

    discussing his new book Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow Published by The MIT...

  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

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

    Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...

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  • Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses

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

    Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses. Praise for On Swift Horses “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such...

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  • Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...

  • Monica Youn

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...

  • Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán

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

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary...

  • Give Us The Word

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

    Give Us The Word, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom, words of resistance, words to inspire, words that heal. Words that help...

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