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  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

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

    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...

  • Luis Alberto Urrea / The House of Broken Angels

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

    Booksmith hosts Luis Alberto Urrea in celebration of the paperback release of his widely acclaimed novel The House of Broken Angels. Please join us!   “All we do,...

  • Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America

    Noe Valley Library 451 Jersey Street, San Francisco

    Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin,...

    Free

  • Happy Endings: Bad Advice and Lucky Breaks

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers will...

    $10

  • Nina Revoyr

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

    reading from her latest novel A Student of History from Akashic Books A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable...

  • Small Publishers Night book exhibition & readings

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The consolidation of publishing house after publishing house into five mega book businesses foretold a future where reading choices for the many would be controlled...

    Free

  • Ali Liebegott with special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian

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

    Ali Liebegott reads from The Summer of Dead Birds published by Feminist Press joined by special guests: Doddie Bellamy and Kevin Killian "A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in...

  • Chip Conley The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur, founding boutique hotel brand Joie de Vivre Hospitality at 26 and running it as CEO for 24 years. He...

    Price TBA, free for members

  • Story Time with Christian Robinson

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    In Another, his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree and store favorite Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful,...

  • Cara Black Takes Us to Paris! reading & talk

    La Boulangerie de Noe 3898 24th Street, San Francisco

    Each year, Noe Valley author Cara Black takes a few lucky readers on a real tour of the Paris she writes about in her bestselling...

    Free

  • Sally Wen Mao

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

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods

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

    Eleanor Burke, author of A Walker's Sketchbook of San Francisco, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods. About Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods is a...

  • Mesha Maren and Randal O’Wain

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

    Mesha Maren discusses her new novel, Sugar Run with Randal O'Wain. Praise for Sugar Run “A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . ....

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

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

    Thurday, February 14, 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 w/Ned Buskirk $10...

    $10

  • Word for Word Reads “The Widow Dreams”

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Members of the Charter Group of Word for Word, a program of Z Space will present a reading of "The Widow Dreams," a narrative of...

    Free

  • Helen Oyeyemi and Stephen Sparks

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

    Helen Oyeyemi discusses her new novel, Gingerbread with Stephen Sparks. About Gingerbread The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a...

  • Alice Pettway

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

    Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017), Moth (2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry, nonfiction...

  • Salvatore Scibona

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

    Salvatore Scibona discusses his new novel, The Volunteer. Praise for The Volunteer “Salvatore Scibona is gravely, terminally, a born writer—a high artist and exquisite craftsman. Yes...

  • Richard Chiem

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

    Richard Chiem discusses his debut novel, King of Joy. Praise for King of Joy "What a funny, fresh, bittersweet masterpiece—there is no one else in the...

  • Jacob Tobia / Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Jacob Tobia for their first book, Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story. Please join us!   A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to...