Join us at this classic pub quiz, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary, some not).
Readings from Manic D Press!
Alia Malek discusses her new book, The Home That Was Our Country, with Michelline Marcom.
Lines and lyrics from Litquake Nation! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors.
A publication party for Edan Lepucki's book "Woman No. 17".
Irene Mathieu and a collection of special guest readers for an evening of Poetry!
Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak.
Come and recite your favorite poem by a published author. California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem.
Coming Attraction.
José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader - An Evening of Poetry.
One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun.
Dani Shapiro reads from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage.
Discussing Ginny Moon.
Translator Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov.
Copies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event.
Celebrating the release of Writers Who Love too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997
Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.
Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection, Suffering Fools, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
Laura McBride reads from her new novel 'Round Midnight.
Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito converse about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era
A night of reading!
It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest.
The first official book release party for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay.
This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/General Fund Portion of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
Deborah Fleming PASEO ARTISTICO.
Hosted by Deborah Ledvick + Jeanne Lupton.
Poetry readings by Chris Higgls, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, + Cassandra Troyan hosted by Kevin Killian
A literary potpourri featuring authors Erika Atkinson, Michael Helquist, Andrew McIntyre, and Laynie Tzena.
Join us to celebrate a dazzling new literary voice, Hala Alyan, and her debut novel, Salt Houses.