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  • SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: American Dream States

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Marc Bamuthi Joseph SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab Thursday, April 4 - Saturday, April 6, 7pm & 8:30pm Sunday, April...

    $30 – $35

  • Random Poetics

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute An ideology Poet Neeli Cherkovski will...

  • RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn

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

    RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn Monday, April 8, 2019, 9:00 am Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Rachel Cusk is a writer of...

    $29
  • Eddy Portnoy

    Gallery Chat and Book Signing: Eddy Portnoy

    Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Eddy Portnoy, best-selling author of "Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press," returns with more stories about Jews behaving badly...

    Free – $14

  • Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

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

    discussing Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment published by City Lights Books "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no...

  • DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU

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

    DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal Monday, April 8, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Conversations...

    $29

  • DISCOVERY

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

    Join us at Public Works SF for six stories of rigorous inquiry and accidental revelations, seeking the unfamiliar and encountering the unknown, and uncovering the...

    $12 – $25

  • Happy Endings

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

    Because everyone deserves a Happy Ending!

    $10

  • RUTH REICHL In Conversation with Steven Winn

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

    RUTH REICHL In Conversation with Steven Winn Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Ruth Reichl is the bestselling author...

    $29

  • Rachel Howard Book Launch

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

    Rachel Howard joins us to launch her new novel, The Risk of Us. Praise for The Risk of Us “An emotionally complex and amazingly suspenseful novel...

  • Freud’s Bar – – details to come!

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Wednesday April 10 6:30pm Ad Event EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud's Bar on Wednesday, April 10th at 6:30pm. Presenter tbd. Are you...

  • Book Club

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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

    reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls...

  • STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris

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

    STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Co-presented with The New...

    $35

  • Leslie Carol Roberts

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

    Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book, Here Is Where I Walk. About Here is Where I Walk It is in the Presidio of San Francisco,...

  • Timothy Hampton

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

    Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present an evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton's new book Bob Dylan's Poetics: How...

  • Translator Marian Schwartz

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

      Marian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian, The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. About The...

  • MICHAEL LEWIS

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

    MICHAEL LEWIS Against The Rules In Conversation with Jacob Weisberg Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Journalist and...

    $29

  • The Poetry Center at SF State Presents: Feliz Lucia Molina

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Feliz' latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California, Crystal Marys is a field study of...

  • Show Me as I Want to be Seen with Porchlight Storytelling

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an evening of storytelling presented in collaboration with Contemporary Jewish Museum and San Francisco’s storytelling series, Porchlight. Each storyteller is sharing a...

    $20

  • Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose...