Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!:...
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Booksmith hosts Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America) for his new book This Is Chance!:...
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Binational publisher Archive 48, dedicated to Mexican and U.S. literature, launches its U.S. wing with the first-ever English translation of an important work by Jose...
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reads from Edie On The Green Screen: A Novel published by 7.13 Books City Lights welcomes back Beth Lisick to celebrate her debut novel from...
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Mexican poet Alejandro Albarrán Polanco joins poet and translator Rachel Galvin to talk about his chapbook, Cowboy & Other Poems, from Ugly Duckling Presse. About Cowboy...
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Jeanne Heuving’s latest book is Mood Indigo, selva oscura press (2019) and she is the co-editor, along with Tyrone Williams, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series,... |
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The Bindery hosts a special evening with Kate Radford, a sonic poetry performance and book release. Drought is fusing contemporary poetry, cinematic landscapes and electronic...
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The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale for their new novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly...
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The Bindery hosts Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (The Sunlit Night) for her new novel Hex. Please join us! Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the...
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Early bird tickets go on sale on March 3 through Friday March 13 only. ~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ Tuesday, April 7...
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The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She'll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into...
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Melville House Publishers is celebrated by City Lights! Three authors with recently released books join us for an evening of spirited discussion Malcolm Harris in conversation...
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Join us for a special Ruby happy hour in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok, Safia Elfhillo, Claire Meuschke, and Taneum...
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Author Event with Maritere R. Bellas //// Parenting Expert Topic - Bilingualism, Biculturalism, Multiculturalism & Award-Winning Author, Influencer, Speaker, Podcast Host, Features Writer
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Lisa Brown discusses her new book, Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in 3 Panels. About Long Story Short Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable...
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Bonnie Tsui discusses her new book, Why We Swim, with Caroline Paul. Praise for Why We Swim “A beautifully written love letter to water and a...
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Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and...
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Get ready, matchmakers: we're going back to Austenland for a night of charming romantic misunderstandings and youthful hubris. Join us to wreck EMMA from the...
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In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell, by City Lights...
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TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Social Studies Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is the author of...
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discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton In the tradition of Edward Said's Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White...
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Kawai Strong Washburn discusses his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors. Praise for Sharks in the Time of Saviors “Sharks in the Time of...
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Celebrate the release of Ho Sok Fong’s Lake Like a Mirror, translated by Natascha Bruce, at The Ruby SF, an arts and letters-focused work and...
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Under the heading “A border, like race, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino's remarkable book, Cruel Fiction—Trevino, The Poetry Center's...
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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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All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It published by Verso Books (part of the Jacobin Series) American history...
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celebrating the release of Little Hill published by City Lights Books Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of...
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Rufi Thorpe discusses her new novel, The Knockout Queen. Praise for The Knockout Queen “Is it cheesy to say The Knockout Queen knocked me off my feet? I...
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Windows on the World Co-authored with Zack Anderson Illustrations by Jon Sack published by Fantagraphics Books Set in a New York City in mourning, this poignant graphic...
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Adam Levin discusses his new novel Bubblegum. Praise for Bubblegum “Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of...
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Booksmith and Quiet Lightningpresent The Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir, Hollywood...
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discussing the subject of her new book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another from The MIT Press In the bestselling...
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