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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Readers TBA!
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...
Join us on July 2 for a literary mixtape curated by Lapo Guzzini and Romalyn Schmaltz! Performances by: Shelley Valdez Mia Kirsi Stageberg Natasha Dennerstein Carol Dorf...
We're feeling evil this summer, so for July, bring a book with a villain you love to hate. Maybe het's a ring-bearer with an insatiable...
A group of LGTBQ+ writers to share new work
In her electric and provocative debut novel Any Man, Amber Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of...
The Bindery hosts a closing for Adrienne Eberhardt's exhibition Emotional Science Emotional Science presents experimental and analog work Adrienne made as a teenager in her makeshift darkroom in...
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...
The collection includes a selection of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers Phyllis Holliday, Margaret Cooley, Keith Cooley, Adele Kearney, Nellie Wong, Jerry...
Speakers & stories TBD Curated by Annetta Black Tuesday, July 10 Public Works SF: 161 Erie St, San Francisco Doors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails and conversation; talks...
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. This...
What to read when there's a summer chill in the air in San Francisco? Perfectly Queer has five suggestions: Admissions by Eric Sasson, Alpha Wave by Andrew...
Presented by Robbin Henderson, Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways...
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...
Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series, moderated by Kim...
Join us for our monthly bilingual poetry night created by Marguerite Munoz and Renee Voz
Sexual tension, heavy drinking, sensitive characters, intolerable heat, and it all ends in madness? Yep, sounds like Shipwreck. Join us for the GOAT: Tennessee Williams' A...
The Bindery hosts an evening of art, design and music as we celebrate the launch of Pop Charts: 100 Iconic Song Lyrics Visualized a collection of art...
What makes a great picture book? Let’s find out together! We’ll dissect our favorite picture books, focusing each month on a different angle. We'll go...