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  • Impromptu writing online via Zoom!

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    Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly...

    $11.44

  • Mikhal Dekel: Tehran Children

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

    Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. Praise for Tehran Children “A revelatory history, a saga of flight and welcome, of...

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  • Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: Holding on to Nothing

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

    Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel, Holding on to Nothing. Praise for Holding on to Nothing “Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the...

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  • Ramesh Srinivasan

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

    discussing his new book Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow Published by The MIT...

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    Quiet Lightning in the Doolan-Larson Building

    Doolan-Larson Building 557 Ashbury St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Monday, November 4 in the Doolan-Larson Building a literary mixtape, featuring: A.A. Vincent Noah Sanders Anna Allen Chelsea Davis Kelly Alsup Abe Becker Emilie Osborn Genie Cartier...

    $15

  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

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

    Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...

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  • Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses

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

    Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses. Praise for On Swift Horses “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such...

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  • ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn

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

    Andre Aciman is a memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name, Aciman’s best-known novel, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel, Find...

    $29

  • Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán

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

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary...

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    Give Us The Word

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

    Give Us The Word, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom, words of resistance, words to inspire, words that heal. Words that help...

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  • CHRIS HUGHES In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin

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

    In 2002, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, in his freshman year, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007, Hughes left Facebook to...

    $29
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    Eves at the Beat: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum

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

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free
  • flier for the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival 2019

    SFCohenFest: A Night of Cohen Poetry, Literature, and Music

    Cafe du Nord 2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival - A Celebration of Leonard's Music, Poetry, Insight & Humor - Night #1 Readings, recitations, and reflections on Leonard's...

    $15

  • Esti Skloot: Uprooted

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

    Esti Skloot discusses her new book, Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage. About Uprooted When pregnant Esther--a young, adventurous, British-born Israeli--follows her new husband, Steve, to...

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  • Writers with Drinks

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

    Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It's more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand...

    $5 – $20

  • Heather Christle: The Crying Book

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

    Heather Christle discusses her new book, The Crying Book. Praise for The Crying Book  "In The Crying Book, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of...

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    The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan

    Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United States

    As well as being an accomplished novelist -- her 2017 debut, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book -- Ethel Rohan...

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  • SF IN SF

    SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, in conversation with Bay Area writer, editor, and...

    $10

  • Odd Mondays Non-Fiction November: Three Histories

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

    November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. Join us...

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  • Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance

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

    Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university...

  • Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader

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

    Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry About Threshold Delivery Threshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at...

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  • Happy Endings

    Happy Endings: I Can’t Thank You Enough

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

    Gratitude is the moment. But we're kind of bad at it, right? Like, whenever someone says, "we should go around and say one thing we...

    $10

  • Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times

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

    Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the...

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  • GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards

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

    Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book Gloria Steinem is a writer, speaker, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine, where...

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