San Francisco

Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

Author Gary Gach points out that just because our eyes are open doesn’t mean we’re awake. He invites us to shift from our “auto-pilot” approach...

Alexandra and David Brown discuss their new book, A Year Off: A Story About Traveling the World-and How to Make it Happen for You. About A...

On their first date, David started describing to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation...

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.

celebrating the release of The Incendiaries  from Riverhead Books Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Time, Parade, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, PBS, Vulture,Buzzfeed, BookRiot, PopSugar, Refinery29, Bustle, The Rumpus, Paste, BBC. A shocking...

Our ancestors can be the real people who came before us or the imagined people of literature or the real people who imagined that literature....

The Bindery hosts Claudia Dey for her American debut, Heartbreaker! Please join us.   An isolated town. The remains of a mysterious cult. And a woman who disappears....

Elaine Mokhtefi discusses her new book, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers. Praise for Algiers, Third World Capital “Algiers, Third World Capital is a...

Poets Maw Shein Win, Melissa Stein, Margaret Stawowy & Miriam Bird Greenberg

celebrating the release of her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree  from Random House A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo...

The Bindery hosts the launch party for Marilyn Berlin Snellfor her new book Unlikely Ally: How the Military Fights Climate Change and Protects the Environment. Please join...

Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm

Booksmith hosts beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf Jane Mount for Bibliophile. Please join us! Book lovers, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish, Jane Mount brings literary...

Julie Bruck reads from her new poetry collection, How to Avoid Huge Ships. Praise for Jule Bruck "She is the poet laureate of aftermath, of what...

We're looking forward to a terrific evening, with friends and fellow Whiting Award 2018 recipients (respectively, for poetry and fiction) Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell, reading and in...

Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Todd Stadtman as he reads from his newest novel, So Good...

Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium. Praise for Mysterium Praise for Mysterium “Mysterium is a beautifully rendered exploration of the essential role that landscape plays in the...

Pride Poetry Palooza usually comes but once a year but everyone had so much fun in July we decided to do it all over again!...

Jerry Ferraz's Trump Poem

POETS! - Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd, followed by an open mic

celebrating the release of Time's Language: Collected Poems from Wings Press Ultimately, there are two kinds of poets: those who have a long vitae and...

Roni Ben Hur - Harvie S - Sylvia Cuenca

Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us!     Come West and...

Giants: The Global Power Elite By Peter Phillips Introduction by William I. Robinson published by Seven Stories Press Who holds the purse strings to the...

Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl. Praise for Coyote Doggirl "Lisa's work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one's imagination. She...

celebrating two new books: Be With - by Forrest Gander - from New Directions Widows Notebook - by Jonathan Santlofer - from Penguin Books about Be With: Drawing...