TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Social Studies Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California,...
Thursday, April 9th, 2020 at the Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA Remember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM, Stories at 8:00 PM Want a sample...
Join us for a special Ruby happy hour in honor of National Poetry Month featuring readings by Monica Sok, Safia Elfhillo, Claire Meuschke, and Taneum...
Joanne McNeil discusses her new book Lurking: How A Person Became a User with Jenny Odell. Praise for Lurking “The internet isn’t ‘out there’ somewhere; it’s coextensive...
Author Event with Maritere R. Bellas //// Parenting Expert Topic - Bilingualism, Biculturalism, Multiculturalism & Award-Winning Author, Influencer, Speaker, Podcast Host, Features Writer
Juliana delgado Lopera (Fiebre Tropical) Cyrus Grace Dunham (A Year Without a Name) Julia Serano (Whipping Girl, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel) Tara...
Lisa Brown discusses her new book, Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in 3 Panels. About Long Story Short Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable...
Bonnie Tsui discusses her new book, Why We Swim, with Caroline Paul. Praise for Why We Swim “A beautifully written love letter to water and a...
discussing the subject of her new book Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism from Repeater Books Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu...
Algerian author Kaouther Adimi discusses his new novel Our Riches. Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Praise for Our Riches "An understated, lyrical story...
Booksmith hosts a special evening with beloved Bay Area writers Aaron Shurin (The Blue Absolute) and Gillian Conoley (A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and...
celebrating the release of Tess Taylor's Rift Zone:poems published by Red Hen Press and Last West published by Museum of Modern Art Books about Rift Zone...
Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel, The Glass Hotel. Praise for The Glass Hotel "Long-anticipated... At its heart, this is a ghost story in...
Get ready, matchmakers: we're going back to Austenland for a night of charming romantic misunderstandings and youthful hubris. Join us to wreck EMMA from the...
The Bindery hosts a special evening with Jennifer Hasegawa to launch her debut book, La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living. More information to be announced soon, but...
Join Litquake for our annual National Poetry Month celebration, at Grace Cathedral atop the city's Nob Hill, for readings from some of America's best poets:...
In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell, by City Lights...
TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Social Studies Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is the author of...
discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton In the tradition of Edward Said's Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White...
ohn Kaag discusses his new book, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. Praise for Sick Souls, Healthy Minds "Kaag's reading of...
Kawai Strong Washburn discusses his debut novel Sharks in the Time of Saviors. Praise for Sharks in the Time of Saviors “Sharks in the Time of...
Celebrate the release of Ho Sok Fong’s Lake Like a Mirror, translated by Natascha Bruce, at The Ruby SF, an arts and letters-focused work and...
Under the heading “A border, like race, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino's remarkable book, Cruel Fiction—Trevino, The Poetry...
Robert Hass and Matthew Zapruder read from their new poetry collections, Summer Snow and Father's Day. About Summer Snow A major collection of entirely new poems from the...
Under the heading “A border, like race, is a cruel fiction”—a line drawn from one of the poems in Wendy Trevino's remarkable book, Cruel Fiction—Trevino, The Poetry Center's...
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...
Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World About We Cast a Shadow: "An incisive and necessary" (Roxane Gay) debut for fans...
All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It published by Verso Books (part of the Jacobin Series) American history...
celebrating the release of Little Hill published by City Lights Books Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of...
John Kaag discusses his new book, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. Praise for Sick Souls, Healthy Minds "Kaag's reading of...