Enter Generations
Counterpulse 80 Turk St, San FranciscoENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance, curated by Shannon Prasad, Greg Pond, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels, in their...
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A Tribute to Toni Morrison
Mechanics Institute Library 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin this extraordinary evening to celebrate and honor one of America’s most important authors who gave voice to of the African American experience through the...
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‘Heartbeat’, A Film by Will Combs featuring Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline, ‘Hube the Cube’ and others
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAs a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in...
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Clement: Schulkind, McClung, Grafton, & Barnes
Green Apple Books Clement Street 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, United StatesAbout the Authors Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to HAIR, before migrating...
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Dia Felix and Matt Longabucco
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCome out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and...
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Gish Jen at The Ruby: Potluck and Discussion!
The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san franciscoJoin us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about...
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Typewriter Art: Typestracts, Artyping, and Constellation Poetry
San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesBefore ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new...
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Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesWhat's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She Published by Liveright Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the...
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Conor Dougherty: Golden Gates
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesConor Dougherty discusses his new book Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. Praise for Golden Gates “Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay...
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Vincent Meis Reads at Dog Eared Books Castro
Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesNovelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel, Four Calling Birds, 7pm, Wednesday, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro,...
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Catana Chetwynd / Snug
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! Please note: This is...
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Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFeaturing the Chapters Retablos, The Way Over, Consuelo, El Judío, La Migra, La Llorona, Nothing Happens, The Quince, Mexican Apology, El Segundo, Neto, My Right...
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Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
El Rio 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers...
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Catana Chetwynd / Snug
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBooksmith presents Catana Chetwynd, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! PLEASE NOTE: >> ...
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William T. Vollmann
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from his new novel The Lucky Star: A Novel published by Viking/Penguin The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the...
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The Racket : Revenge
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThere are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and...
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In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This...
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Paul E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic Books This dual biography of Malcolm...
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Jenny Offill: Weather
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. Praise for Weather “This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong “Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds...
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Diane Keaton
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAcademy-award winning actress Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The First Wives...
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In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism....
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Two Remarkable Poets on Disability Poetics and Activism
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event,...
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Cliterary Salon: the Heart is a Meat Pump
Perdita 323 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesCliterary Salon is a monthly literary show focusing on work not traditionally prioritized in the mainstream by writers who subvert convention. To learn more, please...
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Stephen Ratcliffe and Kyle Schlesinger at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesStephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books! ...
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Ann Harleman Reading from TELL ME, SIGNORA
Book Passage 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAnn Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel, TELL ME, SIGNORA. Kate Hagesfeld, a recent widow, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to...
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Alan Kaufman, Maxine Chernoff, and Jake Marmer – Three Jewish Writers at The Beat Museum
The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United StatesALAN KAUFMAN Alan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers,...
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Sean Negus and Caroline Goodwin at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin).
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Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Lucky 13’th Anniversary
Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesSEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at...
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Bawdy Storytelling’s Best of Bawdy 2020!
Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesSEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! Saturday February 22nd, 2020 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) (NOTE: This is...
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Silent Book Club SF
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesBring 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...
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