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  • April 2021
  • Sat 24
    April 24, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Alley Cat Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day: Poetry reading with Kim Shuck and 5 Poets!

    online CA, United States

    Join us on Saturday April 24th starting at 5pm. We will be wrapping up our celebration of Independent Bookstore Day with some of our favorite...

    Free
  • Sat 24
    April 24, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    At The Door: Chapter Three

    online CA, United States

    Join us for our monthly reading series, uplifting only Black & Brown voices. If you didn't attend last month's event... you missed out. Here's your...

    Free
  • Sat 24
    April 24, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Saturday Night Special presents: Roots

    online CA, United States

    Join SNS this month, for a reading about ROOTS. For our April writing challenge, you are invited to explore an origin story, history, or ancestry...

    Free
  • Sun 25
    April 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm PDT

    Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros Virtual Celebration

    Virtual

    It's a celebration of literacy, books and nature! We invite you and your family to enjoy stories, songs, crafts and learn about special places to...

    Free
  • Mon 26
    April 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Robert Alter and Daniel Mason on Nabokov

    JOIN US ON MONDAY, APRIL 26 AT 6PM WHEN ROBERT ALTER IS JOINED BY DANIEL MASON TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK, NABOKOV AND THE REAL WORLD: BETWEEN APPRECIATION AND...

  • Mon 26
    April 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Doug Bierend and Joanna Steinhardt

    In conversation about In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms Doug Bierend is joined by Joanna Steinhardt of...

  • Tue 27
    April 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Sesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza

    online

    This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform.    celebrating the book launch of ELADATL: A History of...

    Free
  • Tue 27
    April 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    This Is Now: Kawai Strong Washburn

    Join Angie Coiro as she interviews the critically acclaimed debut novelist who stunned everyone from former President Obama to Marlon James and Tommy Orange with...

  • Tue 27
    April 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed M. Masood | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE BAD MUSLIM DISCOUNT by Syed...

  • Tue 27
    April 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Brian Fies, A Fire Story

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Celebrated author and illustrator Brian Fies will share A Fire Story, his firsthand account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017—revised and expanded, and...

  • Wed 28
    April 28, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Why Trust A Corporation to Do a Library’s Job?

    Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User explores our dependence on Google as the Internet's Library. But is it? A generation ago, when...

  • Wed 28
    April 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.

    Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 AT 6PM PT WHEN DAMON B. AKINS AND WILLIAM J. BAUER JR. DISCUSS THEIR BOOK, WE ARE THE LAND: A HISTORY OF NATIVE...

    Free
  • Thu 29
    April 29, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons

    online CA, United States

    This reading series, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who...

    Free
  • Thu 29
    April 29, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy

    IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF JOIN US ON THURSDAY, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT...

  • Thu 29
    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Black Freighter Press, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne, Christopher Malec, Josiah Luis Alderete, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.

    online

    Remote access event, free and open to the public Registration link pending With emcee, Tonya M. Foster Supported in part by the National Endowment for...

    Free
  • Thu 29
    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell

    online CA, United States

    Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José online on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! or join be phone +1...

    Free
  • Thu 29
    April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver, Growing Weed in the Garden

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver will discuss her book Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis. Silver will be in conversation with...

  • Fri 30
    April 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Kate Crawford in conversation with Trevor Paglen

    celebrating the launch of Kate Crawford's new book ATLAS of AI:Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence published by Yale University Press The...

  • Fri 30
    April 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Book Release: Low Rent Prophet by Dani Gabriel

    online CA, United States

    Join us as we celebrate the release of Dani Gabriel's full-length collection of poetry, Low Rent Prophet. Readings by Josiah Luis Alderete, James Tracy, and...

    Free
  • Fri 30
    April 30, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Celeste Chan, MK Chavez, Paul Corman-Roberts & Tim Xonnelly

  • May 2021
  • Sat 1
    May 1, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors: Senator Mazie K. Hirono (Online Event)

    From Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate, the intimate and inspiring story of how a girl...

  • Sat 1
    May 1, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World

    online CA, United States

    This is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...

    Free
  • Sun 2
    May 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Astra Taylor with Robert Reich

    online CA, United States

    Sunday, May 2, 2021 1:00pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021, 05/04/2021, 05/05/2021 DONATE Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through...

    free
  • Sun 2
    May 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021

    online CA, United States

    Kim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton)....

    Free
  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary

    online

    Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: SIDE...

    Free
  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Allison Cobb discusses her new book, Plastic: An Autobiography

    Allison Cobb in conversation about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force...

  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner

    aunch party for the new book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America published by University of Chicago Press ---------- This is a virtual...

  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Odd Mondays Reading “Arisa White & Friends”

    online CA, United States

    Celebrate the publication of Arisa White's new poetry collection, WHO'S YOUR DADDY, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3....

    Free
  • Mon 3
    May 3, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again

    FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, the wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi...

  • Tue 4
    May 4, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

    online CA, United States

    Watch & share this talk on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Long Now Live. What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For...

    Free
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