Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining...
Aja Gabel discusses her new novel, The Ensemble. Praise for The Ensemble "Aja Gabel's powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their...
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. This is a Reading, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love...
Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Please join us!...
Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin Introduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers) Opening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner, EUROPE CENTRAL) Presentations and roundtable...
The Bindery hosts an evening salon exploring the body in fiction and nonfiction with Lone Mørch, Sarah Kornfeld, September Williams and Kristin Kaye, all reading from their new books. Please join...
Barbara Berman reads from her new poetry collection, Currents. Praise for Currents The reach of these graceful, ambitious poems ranges across stars, cities, storms. Their...
Please join us on Friday, May 25rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Eli Jaxon-Bear for a reading and signing of his latest book An Outlaw...
Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel from McSweeney's The Boatbuilder. Praise for The Boatbuilder “The Boatbuilder is a gorgeous debut about addiction, aspiration, and art on the...
Guidelines. This is a night for literary humor, not stand-up comedy. To be considered, send sharp, funny, insightful humor, broad or subtle, that would work well before a...
Bay Area Generations Show #57 A literary salon featuring curated works of San Francisco Bay Area poets, writers and storytellers, with musical guest. GUEST CURATOR:...
Booksmith hosts an evening with Alanna Okun, in conversation with Joe Wadlington about her new book The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting. Please join us! ...
Dr. Carl Hart is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and the Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry....
Martha K. Davis reads from her new novel, Scissors, Paper, Stone. Praise for Scissors, Paper, Stone “With Scissors, Paper, Stone, Martha K. Davis has given us...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | 7:30 pm Featuring Roberto Lovato, Fernando Martí, and Jacqueline Scott Ramos. Open Mic sign-up at 7pm. De bajo la luna llena, hecha de...
Please join us as we welcome Jesse Berrett for a reading of his newest book Pigskin Nation on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:30 p.m. in our Granny Smith Room! Historian Berrett...
Michael Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers – his artistry and aesthetic have influenced an entire generation of writers and readers. Although he is...
The second installment of the new nonfiction reading series On the Cusp based around the theme Moments of Change. The smaller and subtler these moments the better—big, seemingly...
Jessica Weisberg discusses her new book, Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Life, Love, Money and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed. Praise for...
"... every step forward is a travesía, a crossing. I am again an alien in a new territory. And again, and again." --Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La...
Join us on Thursday, May 31st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Vincent Pizzuto as he reads from his new book Contemplating Christ. The incarnation has made mystics of us...
Booksmith hosts Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss, in town to present Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails. Join us! Based...
You're invited to "soirée rosé: the art of happy hour" presented by Author L.B. Lewis to celebrate the pre-release of her third book, One Way...
Come join us Saturday, June 2, when Babylon Salon welcomes novelist and NEA Literature Fellow R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries); novelist and Fulbright Scholar Michael David Lukas...
City Arts & Lectures presents Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Alexis Madrigal. Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice...
SIN Tales of vice and veniality, peccadillos, trespasses, and indiscretions from the faux pas to the unforgivable Featuring: Nadya Lev ~ Eating Ortolans & Other...
An epileptic Black ballerina and a Powwow dancer meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in 1973 Cold War Berlin. During...
Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is...
Readings by TONYA M. FOSTER LINNEA OGDEN ARISA WHITE Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Doors: 6:30 p.m. Program: 7:00 p.m. Free Entry I.O.U. Institute Of advanced...