The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering...
Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation celebrating the release of The Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila by Amparo Dávila translated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson published...
The Bindery hosts "Cat Person" author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection, You Know You Want This. Please join us! You Know You Want This brilliantly explores...
MEG WOLITZER In Conversation with Adam Gopnik Thursday, January 24, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: "On Arts" Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets |...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 In her many novels, such as The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into...
Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: Beginnings Saturday, January 26, 2019, 6 pm Rolling Out 1722 Taraval St. San Francisco To submit work...
The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of...
---SOLD OUT!!--- California's prison system started as a privately-run barge anchored in the Bay, and was embroiled in corruption, political scandal, and violence. Since...
discussing the subject of his new book Team Human published by W.W. Norton Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...
The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual...
GET TICKETS co-presented with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Join us for a conversation with Tracy K. Smith, the current Poet Laureate of...
reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...
The events that define us aren't always immediately apparent. That's the idea behind On the Cusp, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning...
We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount, Executive Director, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland...
Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir, Bruja. In 2016, Bustle named her one of "9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work...
Doors open 6:00pm Event begins 6:30pm At the American Bookbinders Museum
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The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems, Half-Hazard, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen...
Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson, Truong Tran, Max Shanley...
City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas. Saturday, February 2nd, 8:00-9:00pm, San Francisco, CA: SF Library, Main Branch https://www.nightofideassf.com/ What...
GET TICKETS Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How...
celebrating their recent books of poetry Clouds Running In - by Kim Shuck - from Taurean Horn Press "'You will know the poets by...
Description Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 Bang-O & Cocktails at 6:30 PM, Stories & Songs at 7 PM at the Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa Street, San...
4:30pm at The Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco free
What is the state of the immigration reform movement in America? DACA, the Border Wall, Family Separation, Asylum Limitation. How did we get here? What...
7:00pm Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease read at Alley Cat Books 3036 24th Street San Francisco
REBECCA TRAISTER In Conversation with Lara Bazelon Monday, February 4, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Rebecca Traister is the author of Good and...
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...