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  • A MOVEABLE FEAST

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

    Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We'll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you...

  • Autobiography of Death

    Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman

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

    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...

    Free

  • My Life, My Stories: Real life. Told by SF seniors.

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    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...

    $12

  • Happy Endings: Trust, Betrayal, Cheetos

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

    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...

    $10

  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Joyce Carol Oates

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

    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...

  • Wild Geese Sorrow

    Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

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

    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...

    Free

  • Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    Free
  • I Am Yours

    Reema Zaman

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

    Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir, I Am Yours. Praise for I Am Yours “Tender, fierce, compassionate, and wise . . . a moving story about...

    Free

  • MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     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...

    $29

  • Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House

    Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

  • San Francisco Writers Conference

    Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    $850

  • Poem Jam

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    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...

  • Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner

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

        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…

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

    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...

    $10

  • The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

  • Ayesha Harruna Attah

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

    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...

  • Marlon James

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     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...

    $29
  • The Lumberjack's Dove

    GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    Free