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  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us on Sunday, March 3rd for an intimate evening of poetry at the next installment of Bazaar Writers Salon. Readings by Esther Lin,...

  • Morgan Parker

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral...

  • Quiet Lightning

    The Bar at Hotel Kabuki 1625 Post St, San Francisco, CA

    Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! Curated by Christine No + Chad Koch, submissions are open through Feb 6. The Bar at Hotel...

  • DOOMED

    Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits...

    $12 – $25

  • LOGIC Turns Two

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    LOGIC A magazine about technology Host: Jim Fingal, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey, Alexis C. Madrigal, Fred Turner, Ellen Ullman, and Julia Carrie Wong Two years ago, Logic...

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:30 PM  10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church...

    $10

  • Najwa Zebian / Sparks of Phoenix

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special evening with Najwa Zebian, to celebrate her new book, Sparks of Phoenix. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join...

    $18.50

  • Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

      celebrating the release of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh published by Melville House The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they...

  • Carolyn Burke

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

      celebrating her new book Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury published by Alfred Knopf A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship...

  • WHERE EAGLES DARE

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Geoff Dyer hosts commentary and film clips Thursday, March 7, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Co-presented with Telluride Film...

    $29

  • Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. Praise for Hannah Versus the Tree  “An heiress to the ancient money of...

  • Word Week Celebrates International Women’s Day

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Word Week celebrates International Women's Day, Friday, May 8 with "Thelma & Louise: Back Behind the Wheel." Remember this iconic road movie directed by Ridley...

    Free

  • Noe Valley Authors Festival

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay, children's book...

    Free

  • Writers with Drinks

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Saturday, March 9, 2019: Josiah Luis Alderete (The Spanglish Power Hour) Kyle Thomas Smith (Cockloft: Scenes From a Gay Marriage) SevanKeelee Boult (Chile! Hood Stories:...

    $5 – $20

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us!   “All we do,...

  • Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America

    Noe Valley Library 451 Jersey Street, San Francisco

    Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin,...

    Free

  • Happy Endings: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers will...

    $10

  • Nina Revoyr

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from her latest novel A Student of History from Akashic Books A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable...

  • Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled...

    Free

  • Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Ali Liebegott reads from The Summer of Dead Birds published by Feminist Press joined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian "A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in...