• Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal Vo. 35

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

    featuring K.R. MORRISON More details and readers to be announced…

    Free
  • “SoMa Lurk” Book Release

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

    a reading in support of "SoMa Lurk" a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O'Neal, Tongo...

    Free
  • SFJAZZ Presents The Just and the Blind with Marc Bamuthi Joseph & More

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St....

    $25 – $45
  • You’re Going to Die presents: A 10 Year Anniversary Event

    The Independent 628 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sat, Jan 18, 20208:30 PM  Sun, Jan 19, 20201:00 AM The Indepedent (map) You're Going to Die Presents: a YG2D 10th ANNIVERSARY EVENT!!!! featuring Whiskerman & more...

    $18 – $20
  • Gibby Haynes / Me and Mr. Cigar

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

    reading from his new novel Me and Mr. Cigar published by Soho Press From the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes—world famous Butthole Surfers...

    Free
  • Black Love Night of Poetry and Poetry Workshop!

    Strut 470 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for the first Black Love of 2020! Join us for a chill night of poetry from Queer Black Artists part of QTPOC at...

    Free
  • Bikes to Books Winter Beer Social

    Bender's Bar and Grill 806 So. Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

    Join Nicole Gluckstern and Burrito Justice, the creators of literary bicycle tour “Bikes to Books,” for an evening of socializing, beer drinking, and map chat—the...

    Free
  • David Talbot / Between Heaven and Hell

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

    Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books...

    Free
  • On Ecology and Spirituality

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Throughout history, seekers, shamans, and mystics have found spiritual inspiration in the natural world - in wild places at the margins of human culture. Indigenous,...

    $10
  • Tom Lutz: Born Slippy

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

    Tom Lutz discusses his new novel, Born Slippy. Praise for Born Slippy "A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the...

    Free
  • Our Voices Our Stories SF presents Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras will join OVOSSF founder Lisa D. Gray in a conversation about her novel Conteras' novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree. About OVOSsf...

    Free
  • Amber Tamblyn discusses her latest book with Saru Jayaraman

    McRoskey Mattress Company, Inc 1687 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Emmy-winning actress, writer, and Time's Up founder AMBER TAMBLYN discussing her latest book, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution with Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair...

    $20
  • Bad Seeds: A Live Storytelling Event

    Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Bad Seeds--Presented by Back Pocket A storytelling event about: outliers, social pariahs, failures, and good people doing bad things. Featuring strangers, journalists, artists, and the...

    $10
  • Silent Book Club SF

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...

    Free
  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Readings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...

    Free
  • Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley

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

    Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...

    Free
  • Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

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

    reading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...

    Free
  • Crissy Van Meter: Creatures

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

    Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...

    Free
  • Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell

    Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, SF Main Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco

    San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...

    Free
  • Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game

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

    discussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...

    Free
  • Poet Danez Smith: Homie

    Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Buy Tickets Co-presented with JCCSF Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power....

    $20
  • Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories

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

    Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...

    Free
  • Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang

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

    in conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...

    Free
  • Literary Speakeasy’s toast to 2020

    Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau, Vincent Chu, Kevin Dublin, Lauren Ito,...

    Free
  • The Racket 38 : Flight

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

    It's 2020! The future is here! We've got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it's the...

    Free
  • The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    ? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens;...

    $10
  • InsideStorytime: Convergence

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name), Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories), Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road), Ari Moskowitz, and Munashe Kaseke, will take place at Laundry Gallery,...

    $5
  • Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...

    $30
  • Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in San Francisco

    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Project VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. Showtime :...

    $21 – $30