Red wine, chocolate, & words of love! Join Odd Mondays for its Valentine's party Books, Bitters, & Chocolate!, Monday, February 11, from 7pm to 8pm...
Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest...
Join us for an evening of learning and listening, hosted byMy Life, My Stories and sponsored by Blurb Books! My Life, My Stories is a...
HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers...
MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...
MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...
reading from here new novel Hazards of Time Travel published by Harper Collins An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints...
Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. Praise for Wild Geese Sorrow “Jeffrey Thomas...
Join us on February 13 for a discussion with Evan Burfield, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups, and Tim O’Reilly, Code for America...
Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical, thought-provoking contemporary...
The contributors in this book were mostly members of WSA. These accounts are both optimistic, from those still inspired, and bitter, from those now critical...
Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir, I Am Yours. Praise for I Am Yours “Tender, fierce, compassionate, and wise . . . a moving story about...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Michael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton, California, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city...
Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present Barry Gifford in a talk and film screening celebrating the release of Southern Nights, Night People, Arise...
Feb 14-18, Thursday: 12 noon-9:30pm | Friday: 6:45am-9pm | Saturday: 7am-9pm | Sunday: 6:45am-4pm | Monday: 9am-5pm "San Francisco Writers Conference is a four-day event...
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, James Cagney, and Christine No for a special Valentine's Day poetry jam. The Main...
Thu, February 14, 6:30pm – 9:00pm DescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month's readers TBD.
reading from new work Keith Scribner reads from Old Newgate Road published by Alfred Knopf Tom Barbash reads from The Dakota Winters published by Ecco...
You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk $10 in advance and at the door. Tickets: https://sforce.co/2CWB45Q Venue: The Lost...
Please join Ms. Kathleen Beitiks to talk about her book entitled, Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco. A SFMOMA program.
The Bindery hosts a special Saturday afternoon event to welcome Stephanie Land for her remarkable memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. Please join...
These two poets will read as part of The SF Poetry Center's first annual Black Study Series. Frank B. Wilderson, III is an award-winning writer,...
Frank B. Wilderson, III is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official...
Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the...
4:30pm The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch at The Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San...
reading from The Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel published by Other Press Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Marlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings, John Crow’s Devil, and The Book of Night Women, all...
GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection, The Lumberjack's Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! “Serious art does not need to be weighty or...
reading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...