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  • Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    TBD

  • Tommy Orange

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 With his stunning debut novel, There There, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and...

    $29

  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...

  • Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    celebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

         reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...

  • Nona Caspers

    Nona Caspers and Friends

    James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers' latest book, the novel, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal...

    Free

  • Lloyd Kahn

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    A Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn's Latest Book, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast from Shelter Publications Preceded by Discussion and Vintage...

  • Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Come celebrate Lew Ellingham's 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book, 2018; new narrative exponent, poet, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about...

    Free

  • REBECCA SOLNIT

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Rebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, western and indigenous history to literary criticism,...

    $29

  • THE RACKET!

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Vacuum in the Dark

    Jen Beagin

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Jen Beagin discusses her new novel, Vacuum in the Dark Praise for Jen Beagin “How can you resist a love story in which the object of...

    Free

  • WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Thursday, February 28, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form,...

    $29

  • Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco, CA RSVP Translators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true...

  • Babylon Salon

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Babylon Salon presents our Spring Reading Saturday, Mar 2, 2018, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring -- Joe Loya Joe...

  • Bazaar Writers Salon

    Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us on Sunday, March 3rd for an intimate evening of poetry at the next installment of Bazaar Writers Salon. Readings by Esther Lin,...

  • Morgan Parker

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral...

  • Quiet Lightning

    The Bar at Hotel Kabuki 1625 Post St, San Francisco, CA

    Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! Curated by Christine No + Chad Koch, submissions are open through Feb 6. The Bar at Hotel...

  • DOOMED

    Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits...

    $12 – $25

  • LOGIC Turns Two

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    LOGIC A magazine about technology Host: Jim Fingal, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey, Alexis C. Madrigal, Fred Turner, Ellen Ullman, and Julia Carrie Wong Two years ago, Logic...

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:30 PM  10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church...

    $10

  • Najwa Zebian / Sparks of Phoenix

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special evening with Najwa Zebian, to celebrate her new book, Sparks of Phoenix. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join...

    $18.50

  • Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

      celebrating the release of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh published by Melville House The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they...

  • Carolyn Burke

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

      celebrating her new book Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury published by Alfred Knopf A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship...