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...
Throughout history, seekers, shamans, and mystics have found spiritual inspiration in the natural world - in wild places at the margins of human culture. Indigenous,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
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...
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,...
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...
? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens;...
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,...
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...
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 :...
Gregory Pond was born in Brooklyn, NY to Panamanian parents and moved to San Francisco in the late 1970’s. Author and publisher of four books...
Litquake is proud to again partner with San Francisco's annual edition of the global marathon event Night of Ideas (Nuit des Idées), at the city's Main Library. Presented...
Tommy Orange, author of one of the best books of 2019, There, There, is coming to Manny's!! One of the 10 best books fo the...
Smack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQIA community Our slogan? slogan “All ages, all genders, all the time.” We're the longest running QT...
Nancy Au (Spider Love Song), Anita Felicelli (Chimerica), and Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Harm's Way and Twice Shy) will read at Odd Mondays February 3, 6:30pm Folio...
The Bindery hosts Joshua Yaffa for his new book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putins Russia. He'll be in conversation with Mother Jones editorial director Amanda Silverman. Please...
Booksmith hosts Jennifer S. Hirsch, co-author with Shamus Khan of the new book Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus. Please join us!...