The magician and raconteur Christian Cagigal returns to the Tenderloin Museum to share a freshly unearthed set of bizarre tales about San Francisco’s fantastic and...
Maw Shein Win celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry Invisible Gifts: Poems published by Manic D Press Themes of vulnerability and...
Rachel Levin celebrates the release of her new book Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. About Look Big A humorous...
TUESDAY, APRIL 10 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of the nonfiction book Playing Dead: A Journey...
Caspar Henderson, author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels. Praise...
To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes...
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 7:30 – 9 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Horvath is the author of the memoir All the Difference (Etruscan Press). Her...
Join translators Chris Clarke and Kit Schluter in an overdue celebration of the beguiling French writer Marcel Schwob, a cult phenomenon who secretly influenced a...
Leslie Jamison discusses her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication And Its Aftermath. Praise for The Recovering "Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book. It...
Kathleen Belew discussing the subject of her new book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America from Harvard University Press...
Join us as we celebrate the paperback launch of Jami Attenberg'sAll Grown Up, with local superheroes Charlie Jane Anders, Rachel Khong, and Esmé Weijun Wang all talking on the...
& DRAWING FOR POEMS UNDER THE DOME FRI. APRIL 13TH, 7PM On Friday the 13th, join us for an auspicious evening of poetry in celebration...
Cliterary Salon is a show of ribald and rowdy stories about the clitoris, bringing a spirit of fun sexuality to a literary scene that's traditionally...
Neruda: The Poet's Calling Book release party for the new definitive biography of Pablo Neruda, Neruda: The Poet's Calling by Mark Eisner, published by Ecco Press....
Chelsey Johnson (Stray City) Shobha Rao (Girls Burn Brighter) Lilah Sturges (Jack of Fables) Javier Zamora (Unaccompanied) Dominica Phetteplace (Zyzzyva, Asimov's Science Fiction) Chiwan Choi...
The Bindery hosts a special celebration of two new books: The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, edited by two of his daughters, Joan and Anne Watts, and Zen Odyssey: The...
New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Moore joins us in celebration of his hilarious new novel, Noir. One day before the book's official release, this very special event...
Booksmith is thrilled to host Samantha Irby, in town to read from her beloved first collection of essays—and the basis for the upcoming FX Studios series—Meaty!...
Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her “one of...
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Australian-born poet Natasha Dennerstein, as she shares with us snippets from her various books, “Anatomize,” “Triptych Caliform,” “Seahorse,” and “About...
Sloane Crosley discusses her new book, Look Alive Out There with Mallory Ortberg. Praise for Sloane Crosley Sloane Crosley is another mordant and mercurial wit from the...
Meaghan O'Connell discusses her new memoir, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready with Lydia Kiesling. Praise for And Now We Have Everything...
The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein's second book of poems! Don't miss it, friends—more deets to come soon....
Mark your calendars! Speak in verse in the belly of the beast! All are welcome to celebrate National Poetry Month inside beautiful San Francisco City...
We invite you to join us at Building Legacies: 45 Years of Art and Resistance to celebrate 45 years of community, art, and social justice...
Translator Jessica Cohen will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English. Translators are bridge-builders...
InsideStorytime UNREST at Cinnabar, 397 Ellis St. San Francisco, on Thursday April 19th, 7-9 pm, will feature Yang Huang (My Old Faithful), Sumiko Saulson (Somnalia), Dominica Phetteplace, Caitlin Myer, and Ishita Arora.