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  • Julia Dixon Evans

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

    Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...

    Free

  • Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....

    Free

  • Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF

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

    Street Sheet, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the...

  • radical poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin

    Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Francisco

    radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE    

    Free

  • Michelle Tea

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

    Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...

    Free

  • Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...

    Free

  • Between Love and Obsession: Behind the Scenes of Israeli Mythology

    Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of Waking Lions, talks about her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions, a...

    Free – $14

  • William Middleton

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

    William Middleton discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by...

    Free

  • Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

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

    Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer's Ross Simonini -- please join us! Please note: this event begins...

    Free

  • Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam

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

    Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press About Carry You   In Carry You, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child...

    Free

  • Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me,...

    Free

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death...

    $10

  • Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘F*CK BUDDIES’

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

    Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco CA Remember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM, Stories at 8 PM...

    $25 – $35

  • Bookworks :: An Artist’s Book Fair

    San Francisco Center for the Book 375 Rhode Island St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    About the Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair Bookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book...

    Free

  • ‘NEARING THE EXIT’: POEMS BY HERBERT GOLD

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

    Novelist, memoirist, essayist, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression, poetry—here in a publishing first, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold...

  • Laura Catherine Brown

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

    Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel, Made By Mary. About Made By Mary When Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes...

    Free

  • Molly Crabapple / Brothers of the Gun

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! A bracingly...

    Free

  • Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win

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

      Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. About Made By Mary   When Mary and Ann...

  • Mitali Perkins

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book, You Bring the Distant Near, is an unforgettable story that...

  • Bikes to Books Five-Year Anniversary Spring Ride

    Jack London Street Jack London Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and urban exploration, Bikes to Books began...

    Free

  • Express Yourself: Celebrating Gender Diversity

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live...

    Free

  • KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music

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

    Featured readers - James Zealous Christine No Tifa Love Clara Hsu Sarita de la Madrid Musical guests: Brother Spellbinder Ed Dang With your host Bloodflower

  • An Opportunity to Meet London Breed

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco's mayoral candidates, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday, May 20 starting...

  • Simulation featuring Justine Musk

    Swedish American Hall 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    What do courage and confidence have to do with maximizing human potential? How can we humanize others rather than villainize them? How can we best...

    $25

  • THE RACKET! #19

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

    It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late - obsession, grief, ghosts - so we thought, let's try something a little more...

  • Rachel Kushner

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

    Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel, The Mars Room. Prasie for Rachel Kushner “Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able...

    Free