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  • January 2021
  • Sun 17
    January 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond with Whitney Leigh Morris – What’s Your Story? (Virtual Event)

    Transformational questions for personal and collective change. In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 9:00 am - March 9, 2021 @ 11:00 am PST

    Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

    Virtual

    Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...

    Free
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Paraic O’Donnell with Helen MacDonald – The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)

    London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

    Steven Kotler – The Art of Impossible (Virtual Event)

    Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This is Now: Simon Winchester

    This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST

    Panel: Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past, Looking Toward the Future

    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    Authors, S.A. Cosby, Kellye Garrett, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of...

    Free
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters

    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event Floaters MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has...

    $1 – $20
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K....

  • Wed 20
    January 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMES J. SIEGEL, BEN KLINE, AND CAROLINE EARLEYWINE READ FROM THEIR WORK TO CELEBRATE SIEGEL'S LATEST COLLECTION, THE GOD OF...

  • Thu 21
    January 21, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay

    Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel, WIDER THAN THE SKY, with author...

  • Thu 21
    January 21, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    discussing (with wine) Lethem's latest novel The Arrest, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car....

  • Fri 22
    January 22, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference

    VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...

  • Fri 22
    January 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Rebecca Fishow and Emily Schultz

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN REBECCA FISHOW DISCUSSES HER LATEST COLLECTION, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, WITH EMILY SCHULTZ ON ZOOM! Zoom Login Info Please...

  • Fri 22
    January 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    ACCENTED | For Your Consideration: Diasporic Vietnamese Filmmakers

    The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers, poets, artists,...

  • Sat 23
    January 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Author Ed Lin Discusses new book, ‘David Tung Can’t Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College

    Hosted by Eastwind Book Club. Live discussion with author Ed Lin. About the book: David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale,...

  • Sat 23
    January 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST

    At The Door – The Preface (inaugural event)

    online

    At The Door is a monthly reading series featuring and uplifting Black, Indigenous, and people of color voices. Started in collaboration by Danielle, Ariel, Randy,...

    Free
  • Mon 25
    January 25, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Author Event: Wandering In Greece With Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin

    Please join us on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of the new collection of travel writing, WANDERING IN GREECE,...

  • Tue 26
    January 26, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais

    Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN...

  • Tue 26
    January 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Roy Richard Grinker in conversation with Steve Silberman / Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Roy Richard Grinker's new book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of...

  • Wed 27
    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The Echoing Ida Collective

    evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book The Echoing Ida Collection Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi...

  • Wed 27
    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe – The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)

    The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know

    Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

    Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: New Poems published by Wesleyan University Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads, featuring Benjamin Garcia, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi

    Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV

    reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards – Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)

    Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)

    Sherry L. Smith's Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth century. The opening years of the twentieth century...

  • February 2021
  • Tue 2
    February 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK, FOUR LOST CITIES:...

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