• Queer Words: In Conversation with Rob Rosen

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

    Wayne Goodman will sit in conversation with the author of "Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love," "Fierce," "Hot Lava," "Queens of the Apocalypse," "Creature...

  • David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing

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

    David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing celebrating the release of The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing by Charles...

    Free
  • Richard Rhodes

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

    discussing the subject of his new book ENERGY: A Human History published by Simon and Schuster Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes...

  • The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night

    PianoFight 144 Taylor St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th, 2018 Our featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis) at PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy), San Francisco, CA 94102 – Powell...

  • BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible

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

    Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir. Please join us!   From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir -- part...

  • Chris Feliciano Arnold

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

    Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. About The Third Bank of...

  • Ana Raquel Minian

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

    Ana Raquel Minian Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco discussing the subject of her new book Undocumented...

  • Jana Casale

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

    Jana Casale discusses her new novel, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. Praise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky “Casale writes with both...

  • Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped...

    $12 – $15
  • Zoé Samudzi

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

    Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with...

    Free
  • Bawdy Storytelling ‘JACKPOT!’

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING Storytelling is about building a connection. So is sex. For the past 11 years, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex, kink,...

    $25 – $35
  • CATHY CASSADY: TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID

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

    SAT. JUNE 23RD, 4-6PM TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY Join us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady, eldest daughter of Neal and...

  • Poetry

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

    Rodney Koeneke,  Dodie Bellamy, and Ross Simonini Hosted by Kevin Killian

  • Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon

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

    Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco discussing Glen David...

  • Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters

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

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. Praise...

  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...

  • A Poetry Reading with Neeli Cherkovski & Clark Coolidge

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

    Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including his most recent collection, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology...

  • DAN PFEIFFER

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Dan Pfeiffer is Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast Pod Save America. In his forthcoming book, Yes We...

    $35
  • Who Will Speak For America?

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

    Who Will Speak For America? Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco with Veronica Scott Esposito, Charlie Jane Anders, and Craig...

  • BINDERY: Porochista Khakpour / Sick

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Booksmith hosts an evening with the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, Porochista Khakpour for her new book Sick: A Memoir. Porochista will be in conversation...

  • Poetry Jam

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States
  • LONG SHOT & WORKS BY DANNY SHOT

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

    appearing with Jack Hirschman and Jessica Loos Works honors the longtime Long Shot magazine, credo of “Writing from the Real World.” This collection of poems traverses a course...

  • My Old Faithful: Book Talk and Signing with Author Yang Huang

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    Local author Yang Huang’s new novel My Old Faithful, a Juniper Prize winner, depict the lives of one family over thirty years in China and the...

  • Dive Deep into Roxane Gay’s Hunger

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

    Roxane Gay’s Hunger has been called “Luminous. . . . intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” by The New York Times Book Review. And Entertainment Weekly wrote, "on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful...

    $50
  • Bay Area Poetry Marathon

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

    Readers TBA!

  • POETS! – James Cagney & Cassandra Dallet followed by an open mic

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

    James Cagney Cassandra Dallet plus open mic Jerry Ferraz & SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck co-host James Cagney is a poet from Oakland, and has featured at...