• You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes…

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

    Thursday, January 9, 2020 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
  • 2020 Hindsight

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for a fast-paced evening of readings by a dozen talented writers from the Lit Camp community. Free beer & wine. $5-10 sliding scale...

    $5 – $20
  • SF Sketchfest 2020: Porchlight Storytelling

    Swedish American Hall 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    For the past seventeen years, Porchlight has been San Francisco's premier storytelling series. Each month, co-founders Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite six people to tell ten-minute true...

    $28
  • Rescheduled: Sally Rooney in conversation with Heidi Julavits

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

    Sally Rooney “writes about tricky commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one else has” (The Paris Review). Her novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People, are nuanced portraits...

    $29
  • Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    2020 is here! Join us at Manny's for the decade's first poetry night! Come to Manny's for our monthly open mic nights. Poets, readers, performers...

    Free
  • Odd Mondays “What Are You Working on?”

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

    One question an author is always asked at events or in chance encounters is what are you working on, and one thing an author always...

    Free
  • Ottessa Moshfegh with Isabel Duffy

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

    Ottessa Moshfegh’s characters are wracked with depression, neurosis, and utter ennui, but the care with which she tends to them imbues her books with a...

    $29
  • Zyzzyva celebrates their Bay Area Issue

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

    Moderated by Oscar Villalon with Meg Hurtado Bloom, Rita Bullwinkel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Chia-Chia Lin, Kevin Simmonds, and Paul Wilner ZYZZYVA's latest volume—the Bay Area Issue—features new writing and poetry...

    Free
  • Happy Endings: January

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

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...

    $10
  • T.J. Mitchell & Judy Melinek: First Cut

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

    Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their new novel, First Cut. Praise for First Cut “Scalpel sharp. First Cut allows a peek into the autopsy room through the...

    Free
  • Mapping the Bay: with Kim Shuck and friends

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

    poetry and discussion exploring the pathways language takes through land, water, and air. Poetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of...

    Free
  • Miranda Popkey: Topics of Conversation

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

    Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. Praise for Topics of Conversation "An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality,...

    Free
  • Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World

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

    What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, brings this abstract question to life....

    $25
  • Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever

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

    Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I've Never Done This Before) for their new book, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! Shine of the Ever is a literary mix tape...

    Free
  • Christopher Bernard

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

    Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars' Cafe. About Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars'...

    Free
  • Confessions of a Psychedelic Journalist

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

    For more than four decades, Don Lattin has written about the social, spiritual, and political aspects of the psychedelic drug movement as a newspaper reporter,...

    $15
  • The War That Used Up Words? Literature in Paris 1910-1940

    Alliance Française de San Francisco 1345 Bush St., San Francisco, California, United States

    For decades, works like Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris have captivated our imaginations with their images of lively cafés that...

    $15
  • Red Light Lit & The Los Angeles Press

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

    Red Light Lit and The Los Angeles Press doubleheader with a live musical score by AJ Bahnken🎈The performers explore love relationships, sexuality, and gender. Featured...

    $10
  • The Nocturnists: Transitions

    Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA San Francisco, CA 700 Howard St, San Francisco

    Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of "Transitions," featuring stories by David Elkin, Tobin Greensweig, Catherine Humikowski, Shaili Jain, Christina...

    $25 – $35
  • Wile & Wing Poetry Book Launch

    Tenderloin Museum 398 Eddy St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    A poetry reading hosted by author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka. Author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka is a mesmerizing—and folkloric—figure in the Bay Area literary community....

    Free
  • Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal Vo. 35

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    featuring K.R. MORRISON More details and readers to be announced…

    Free
  • “SoMa Lurk” Book Release

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    a reading in support of "SoMa Lurk" a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O'Neal, Tongo...

    Free
  • SFJAZZ Presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph & More

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

    Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St....

    $25 – $45
  • You’re Going to Die presents: A 10 Year Anniversary Event

    The Independent 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sat, Jan 18, 20208:30 PM  Sun, Jan 19, 20201:00 AM The Indepedent (map) You're Going to Die Presents: a YG2D 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT!!!! featuring Whiskerman & more...

    $18 – $20
  • Gibby Haynes / Me and Mr. Cigar

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

    reading from his new novel Me and Mr. Cigar published by Soho Press From the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes—world famous Butthole Surfers...

    Free
  • Black Love Night of Poetry and Poetry Workshop!

    Strut 470 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at...

    Free
  • Bikes to Books Winter Beer Social

    Bender's Bar and Grill 806 So. Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

    Join Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice, the creators of literary bicycle tour “Bikes to Books,” for an evening of socializing, beer drinking, and map chat—the...

    Free
  • David Talbot / Between Heaven and Hell

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

    Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books...

    Free
  • On Ecology and Spirituality

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

    Throughout history, seekers, shamans, and mystics have found spiritual inspiration in the natural world - in wild places at the margins of human culture. Indigenous,...

    $10