San Francisco

Charlie Getter has been the ringleader for the poetry that happens in the 16th & Mission BART plaza for a decade.  Aqueila M. Ross, we'll...

with special guests Mauro Javier Cardenas and Dick Cluster celebrating the release of Poso Wells published by City Lights Books An ABA Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Selection Celebrated...

Booksmith hosts an evening with Arjun Singh Sethi, editor ofAmerican Hate: Survivors Speak Out. More information TBA soon -- save the date and join us!   “Why...

Lydia Kiesling joins us to celebrate the release of her new novel, The Golden State, with Ismail Muhammad. Praise for The Golden State “The Golden State is a perfect...

The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mia Ayumi Malhotra's debut collection of poems, Isako Isako. Joining Mia areJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems) and the experimental...

Jacqueline Doyle, Chiyuma Elliott, Tracy Jane Gregory, Steve Gutierrez, Carla Harryman, Persis Karim, Caroline Kessler, Rae Liberto and Dean Rader read pieces from They Said: A Multi-Genre...

In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to...

Join us for this rare reading at The Poetry Center by poet-translator — and SF State alum — Forrest Gander, just in time for the debut...

The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for the new W. W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, featuring readings by local contributors. More TBA...

Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel, Home Fire. Praise for Home Fire “Home Fire left me awestruck, shaken, on the...

Babylon Salon presents our Fall Reading Saturday, September 8, 2018, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring -- Daniel Mallory Ortberg...

2018 California Book Award Finalist Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet. "Reyes...

Writer-contributors read to celebrate the publication of "Giving Voice: Laborfest Writers Anthology, 2005-2017"

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