Talking Down to Trump is an evening featuring short film, reading, and live dance performance, as well as group meditation organized by artists, activists, and mothers who work, live, and resist in the Bay Area.
Writer and feminist Laura Kipnis will discuss her latest book: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus.
An unparalleled evening of discussion with Etgar Keret, the best-selling Israeli writer and award-winning filmmaker.
Come and recite your favorite poem by a published author. California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem.
José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader - An Evening of Poetry.
Discussing Ginny Moon.
Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible.
Two contemporary master story tellers, who focus on the immigrant experience, talk about how their novels and stories portray the current immigrant experience.
Join Anne Lamott, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview, a lecture, and a Q&A session.
Teen open mic. Writers, singers, rappers, slammers, speakers, composers, musicians all welcome.
Rebecca Foust and Prartho Sereno readings and celebration.
Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace O'Brian - An Evening in Conversation.
San Francisco troubadour-poet Brian Laidlaw, The Stuntman, along with Alaskan fiddler and poet Ken Waldman whose double CD All Originals, All Traditionals, includes Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry.
Megan Miranda presents her new book, The Perfect Stranger.
For Adults and High School Students only.
This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on June 8th, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Arrivals.
From Jane Green -- the New York Times bestselling author of Falling -- comes The Sunshine Sisters.
Welcome our June writers Terry Lucas + Joan Baranow.
Get Lit is a quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor.
Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on July 13th, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors read from their works, exploring the theme of Portents.
Readings + discussion.
A celebration of all things Shakespeare!
The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful.
Brown, the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and This is Where We Live, does it again with a heart-stopping new novel that will leave you breathless.
Seven acclaimed authors explore the theme of Singularities.
An afternoon in conversation.
In The Half-Life of Remorse, three life-scarred people are brought together to confront each other thirty years after the brutal crime that shattered their lives.
Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Join Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Robert Currier and Marin Shakespeare actors as they discuss the complex wordplay and sly wit of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.