Silent Reading Party
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesPresented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is...
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“Uncanny Valley” Author Anna Wiener in Conversation w/ Casey Newton
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesNew Yorker writer Anna Wiener’s new book “Uncanny Valley” is a brilliant memoir of a half-decade lived in San Francisco as tech changes the community...
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Brooke Barker & Boaz Frankel / Let’s Be Weird Together
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith holds a special in-store event with Brooke Barker (Sad Animal Facts and Sad Animal Babies) and Boaz Frankel, creators of the new book Let's Be Weird Together. Please join us!...
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Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Peter Lawrence Kane
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness...
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Cutting Up The Century: A Burroughs Birthday Miscellany
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Stateswith Joan Hawkins, Alex Wermer-Colan, Peter Hale, and Jon Longhi celebrating the release of William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century Edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan...
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Dmitry Samarov Returns With His New Book Soviet Stamps
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesDmitry’s new book is Soviet Stamps, wherein he recounts how he became an artist. Through written vignettes, artwork, and family photos the book charts Samarov's...
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Book Talk: ‘Gay Like Me’ with author Richie Jackson
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesRichie Jackson is an award-winning Broadway, television and film producer. He is coming to Manny's to talk about his new book 'Gay Like Me'. In...
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Elaine Kahn
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from her new book Romance or The End: poems published by Soft Skull Press Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative...
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Alexis Coe / You Never Forget Your First
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith welcomes back Alexis Coe (Alice + Freda Forever) for her new book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. Please join us! Young George...
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Josiah Luis Alderete and James Cagney
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThis event, the first in The Poetry Center reading series for 2020, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and is free and...
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David Talbot – Between Heaven And Hell
Bookshop West Portal 80 W Portal Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesIf anyone knows hard work, it’s David Talbot. A bestselling author and journalist of books such as Season Of The Witch and The Devil’s Chessboard,...
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Fanny Renoir Variety Show
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoin Fanny Renoir and friends for an evening of poetry, music, performance, and films! Featuring: DOMINIC ANGERAME HOWARD MUNSON JEFF GIORDANO ANTHONY BUCHANAN JESSICA LOOS...
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Garth Greenwell: Cleanness
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesGarth Greenwell discusses his new novel, Cleanness, with R.O. Kwon. Praise for Cleanness “Garth Greenwell is an intensely beautiful and gorgeous writer. I can think of no...
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The Buried Ships of San Francisco
Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United StatesEvery day, thousands of us walk above and over the buried hulls of ships, old wharves, and cargo. Muni streetcars below the street pass right...
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Lidia Yuknavitch / Verge
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery welcomes the fierce and fabulous Lidia Yuknavitch back for her first collection of stories, Verge. Please join us! I tell you, do not go near that place....
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KSW Presents Meng Jin and Mimi Lok
Kearny Street Workshop 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesKearny Street Workshop celebrates the latest book releases from Meng Jin and Mimi Lok! About this Event On Friday, February 7th, KSW Presents Meng Jin,...
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Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax, Jay Deshpande, and Kai Carlson-Wee at City Lights Books!
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMegan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry Good Boys published by Tin House Books In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability,...
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About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series Feb
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAbout Last Night - Join us for an evening of laughter, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls...
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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statescelebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's new book Children of the Land published by HarperCollins This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in...
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Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesJoin us for Manny's monthly open mic! Everyone is welcomed. Come to Manny's for our monthly open mic nights. Poets, readers, performers - all are...
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Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAt Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX Saturday February 8, 2pm Olivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She...
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Zora Neale Hurston | Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCo-presented by MoAD & Litquake In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York, “desperately striving for...
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P: Carl Becoming a Man
Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesRenowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg, and...
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Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFEB 8 Open Mic, Poetry, Reading Queerbound Queer Open Mic Saturday, February 8, 2020 6:00 PM 9:00 PM Queerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
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Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJanuary's Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism, science fiction, and...
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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from his new book Children of the Land published by HarperCollins This unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the...
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein
JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United StatesFamily Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century In conversation with Janine Zacharia 6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception 7:00 pm: Talk The...
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Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesWinter in San Francisco. Baby, it's cold outside--comparatively, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday, February 11, 7pm to 8pm...
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Happy Endings: February
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesHAPPY 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...
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Amina Cain: Indelicacy
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAmina Cain discusses her new novel, Indelicacy, with Rita Bullwinkel. Praise for Indelicacy "In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking...
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