Friday, September 17, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Colson Whitehead is the author of ten works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time...
JOIN US ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE BOOK REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE: WHAT PEDRO GOMEZ SHOWED US ABOUT BASEBALL AND LIFE IN-PERSON AT...
JOIN US ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN KATIE CROUCH DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL, THE EMBASSY WIFE, WITH RACHEL LEVIN AT 9TH AVE! Masks Required for...
Carolina de Robertis discusses her latest book and the craft of writing and translating. Featuring a former Latin American president reminiscing on his remarkable life,...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Mary Roach is the author of the books STIFF, SPOOK, BONK, GULP, GRUNT, and PACKING FOR MARS,...
It’s a party and you’re all invited! Our signature 7.1 mile bicycle tour of literary San Francisco combines San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and...
Join us on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm PT when Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero, and Noah Warren join us for an evening celebrating their latest...
Matthew Clark Davison will be joined by Michael Nava to discuss his debut novel, Doubting Thomas. Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay...
Join us on Friday, October 8th at 6pm PT when Lilly Dancyger reads from and discusses her memoir, Negative Space, with Nina Renata Aron at...
Join us for a transmedia exploration of what makes & breaks community in the year 2021. How has a year of involuntary isolation for some...
Join us on Saturday, October 9th at 1pm at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens with author Charlotte Rygh for an afternoon of drawing and fun...
Join us on Tuesday, October 12th at 6pm PT when Victoria Chang and Ari Banias celebrate the launch of their latest books Dear Memory: Letters on...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean has written with wit and endless curiosity...
Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Congressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th Congressional District. In his 11th term in the House of...
Bird and Beckett Bookstore 653 Cheney San Francisco, Ca 415-586-3733 www.birdbeckett.com Poet, Tony Seymour Violinist, India Cooke Piano, Bill Crossman The Hollywood Muse Masked Ball:...
Author Amy Tan joins KQED veteran and literature professor Michael Krasny for a conversation on how personal and cultural histories fuse with imagination in her...
Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing...
Oneof the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza's work has helped shape the discourse on activism and empowerment for...
Join us on Thursday, October 21st at 6pm PT when Tiphanie Yanique discusses her novel, Monster in the Middle, with Edwidge Danticat on Zoom! Zoom Registration Praise for Monster...
Chef Bryant Terry joins "Check Please! Bay Area" Producer Cecilia Phillips to discuss his new book, Black Food, which explores Black foodways around the U.S....
Join us on Friday, October 22nd at 7pm PT when Teresa K. Miller is joined by fellow poets Roxane Beth Johnson and Jenny Qi to celebrate her collection, Borderline Fortune, at...
Join us on Saturday, October 23rd at 12pm PT when Warren Ellis joins us to discuss his book, Nina Simone's Gum, with Joe Cardamone on Zoom! THIS IS A TICKETED...
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to the bright lights...
We all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from underneath us and what we relied on as steady...
Friday, October 29, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Join Reza Aslan and Jessica Jackley for a conversation on empathy and community. The two are partners in...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Lauren Groff is the author of six books of fiction, the most recent the novel...
Friday, November 5, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Jelani Cobb is a historian, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, and has been...
Friday, November 19, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Natashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Tongo Eisen-Martin is the current poet laureate of San Francisco. He is the author of Heaven...
Quincy Troupe, "Poet of the Deep Song," is joined in conversation by two lifelong friends, actor Danny Glover and bestselling author Terry McMillan. Dr. Kim...