Katie Burke discusses her new book Urban Playground: What Kids Say about Living in San Francisco. Praise for Urban Playground “In this charming, warm-hearted, often very funny...
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano for their new book Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy. Please join us: we'll be streaming on our Facebook...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View...
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her new novel The New American with Sara Campos. Select praise for Micheline Aharonian Marcom “The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many...
Katherine Silver in conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas Carlos Onetti meets Julio Ramón Ribeyro in an evening of discussion between a master translator and an...
Folks! Join us Thursday evening for a Zoom open mic! Find the link below! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcOivqDsuGN3874bFQ-7kFD56Uvs4cPG4?fbclid=IwAR0ccdL5H4kZSVW4zZZOpl8-4Qah1LVvcxqQ_NSQkiZ6jp68i4ITR16nEsQ
Moderated by Lala Wu Program will air Thursday May 14th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut We’ve all seen the images...
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012),...
iller Apps: War, Media, Machine published by Duke University Press In Killer Apps Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a detailed account of the rise of automation...
Joan Frank discusses her new collection of novellas, Where You're All Going, with Peg Alford Pursell. Praise for Where You're All Going “Joan Frank’s wonderful novellas are...
Journalist Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano discuss Fire in Paradise, their account about the 2018 Camp Fire, one of the worst wildfires in U.S. history. About...
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Location: In the basement of the store. 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Website Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author...
Join us to celebrate Marta Lindsey's new book Golden Gate Park, An A-Z Adventure About Golden Gate Park, An A-Z Adventure Explore California's most visited city...
In but a moment's time, our lives have become hyperlocalized. Sheltering in place, we become intensely aware of where we are, and with whom. Bringing...
In Discussion: Immigrants, Refugees, and Second Gen: Writing the Complexity of the Asian American Experience (Livestream) with Traci Chee, Lori Lee, Deeba Zargarpur, I.W. Gregorio...
The Tar Pits Cantos Author Greg Harmon reads for the kids & their parents Join us online at Bird & Beckett this Sunday afternoon, for...
We need to move from crisis to justice with a global green new deal for people and the planet. On May 19, join Arundhati Roy...
Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...
Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Molly Wizenberg, author of The Fixed Stars. Molly will be in conversation with Ruby member Sana Javeri Kadri. Thanks to...
Presented by City Lights & Democracy Now! This event is free & will be broadcast on Crowdcast. Sign up here to attend! Amy Goodman in discussion with...
'See Black Women’ is presented as part of the Art+Action Coalition’s COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign, which aims to inspire and galvanize Census participation by...
Tuesday, May 19, 5:00pm • Free Zoom Livestream Event • Presented with Shack 15 Moderated by Jen Oleniczak Brown Too often, people avoid difficult conversations;...
Hosted by Peter Maravelis Two masters of crime fiction discussing the writing of fiction that takes place in World War Two Europe. They explore topics...
Moderated by Keiko Lane Program will air Tuesday May 19th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In our Writer to Writer...
This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...
Join us on Zoom on Tuesday, May 19 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen's favorite books, THE EDITOR...
Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody discusses his translation of The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry. About The Idea of Perfection A fresh look into the...
GANG GANG. We might be stuck inside but that doesn't mean we can't come together and have a poetry slam! We'll be hosting the slam...
Where do Peter Orner’s characters come from? Will the global pandemic appear somehow in his future work? And what comes next for the award-winning author...