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Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...
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reading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...
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San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...
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Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
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Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. Showtime :...
$21 – $30
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Tommy Orange, author of one of the best books of 2019, There, There, is coming to Manny's!! One of the 10 best books fo the...
Free – $72
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Nancy Au (Spider Love Song), Anita Felicelli (Chimerica), and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm's Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3, 6:30pm Folio...
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Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is...
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with Joan Hawkins, Alex Wermer-Colan, Peter Hale, and Jon Longhi celebrating the release of William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century Edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan...
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Booksmith welcomes back Alexis Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) for her new book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. Please join us! Young George...
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celebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's new book Children of the Land published by HarperCollins This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in...
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Every day, thousands of us walk above and over the buried hulls of ships, old wharves, and cargo. Muni streetcars below the street pass right...
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At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX Saturday February 8, 2pm Olivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She...
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reading from his new book Children of the Land published by HarperCollins This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the...
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Winter in San Francisco. Baby, it's cold outside--comparatively, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday, February 11, 7pm to 8pm...
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The Department of History, Anthropology, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present Arthur Kleinman discussing the subject...
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Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There...
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Robert Hass reads from his new collection, Summer Snow, in Point Richmond. A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In...
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Join this extraordinary evening to celebrate and honor one of America’s most important authors who gave voice to of the African American experience through the...
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About the Authors Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to HAIR, before migrating...
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Come out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and...
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Join us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about...
$10
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Featuring the Chapters Retablos, The Way Over, Consuelo, El Judío, La Migra, La Llorona, Nothing Happens, The Quince, Mexican Apology, El Segundo, Neto, My Right...
$20 – $63
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Novelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel, Four Calling Birds, 7pm, Wednesday, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro,...
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SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers...
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The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism....
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SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) (NOTE: This is...
$25
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Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA. Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...
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Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
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Yellow Earth from Haymarket Books Rich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All...
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Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry Good Boys published by Tin House Books In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability,...
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SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Karen Sherman, author of Brick By Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere moved her family from Bethesda, Maryland to Kigali for a year in 2012...
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(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets Former poet-in-residence, Alan Pelaez Lopez, will celebrate their debut book, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a...
$5 – $10
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Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon, San Francisco. CONTRIBUTORS READ...
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On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General...
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