Join us at The Rite Spot, a cozy Mission District dive in San Francisco that has been around for 60 years, as we celebrate the release...
Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum, and performed as staged...
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body) Allegra Huston (Say My Name) Cyrus Farivar (Habeas Data) Maw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems)...
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...
Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for...
The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! When she applied to Harvard Law School,...
Hosted by Jennifer Barone, Ingrid Keir, live jazz with Daniel Heffez, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit, pick...
This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements,...
Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading, "Murderous Fiction: 3...
Carmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...
Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker, Nellie was honored by Oakland...
The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...
Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...
Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....
Street Sheet, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the...
radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE
Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...
The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...
Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of Waking Lions, talks about her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions, a...
William Middleton discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by...
Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer's Ross Simonini -- please join us! Please note: this event begins...
Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press About Carry You In Carry You, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child...
The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me,...
YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death...
Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco CA Remember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM, Stories at 8 PM...
About the Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair Bookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book...
Novelist, memoirist, essayist, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression, poetry—here in a publishing first, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold...
Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel, Made By Mary. About Made By Mary When Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes...
The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! A bracingly...
Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. About Made By Mary When Mary and Ann...