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About the Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair Bookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book...

Novelist, memoirist, essayist, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression, poetry—here in a publishing first, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold...

The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! A bracingly...

  Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. About Made By Mary   When Mary and Ann...

Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book, You Bring the Distant Near, is an unforgettable story that...

The Bindery hosts a launch party for Caroline Paul's new book, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. Bring the family and join us for...

When living in a world that is still learning about the gender spectrum, forms of expression become survival tools helping trans and nonbinary people live...

Featured readers - James Zealous Christine No Tifa Love Clara Hsu Sarita de la Madrid Musical guests: Brother Spellbinder Ed Dang With your host Bloodflower

As part of a series for meet and greet opportunities with San Francisco's mayoral candidates, we are pleased to host London Breed on Sunday, May 20 starting...

It feels like The Racket has skewed dark as of late - obsession, grief, ghosts - so we thought, let's try something a little more...

Rachel Kushner discusses her new novel, The Mars Room. Prasie for Rachel Kushner “Kushner is a young master. I honestly don’t know how she is able...

The Bindery presents former Mythbusters' host Kari Byron for her new book Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life's Toughest Questions. Crash test...

Booksmith hosts Bernie Sanders campaign advisor Heather Gautney for her new book Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement. Please join us! Senator...

The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. Please join us!   When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists...

Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8pm $10 online & at the door... TICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2k4yp1g YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open...

Jenny Xie   reading from her award winning poetry collection Eye Level published by Graywolf Press Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy...

The Bindery hosts Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Rabih Alameddine about her new novel, The Evolution of Love. Please join us! “She’d told herself, and her husband Tom, that...

Daegan Miller   discussing the subject of his new book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent from University of Chicago Press "The...

Booksmith hosts Andrew Sean Greer for the paperback launch of Less, one of our favorite novels of 2017 and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Joining...

Aja Gabel discusses her new novel, The Ensemble. Praise for The Ensemble "Aja Gabel's powerful debut offers a sensitive portrait of four young musicians forging their...

Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. This is a Reading, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love...

Booksmith welcomes Chuck Klosterman back to the store for the paperback release of X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Please join us!...

Weimar Mirror: Revisiting Alfred Döblin Introduction by Peter Maravelis (City Lights Booksellers) Opening Statement and moderation by William T Vollmann (National Book Award winner, EUROPE CENTRAL) Presentations and roundtable...

The Bindery hosts an evening salon exploring the body in fiction and nonfiction with Lone Mørch, Sarah Kornfeld, September Williams and Kristin Kaye, all reading from their new books. Please join...