San Francisco
Events
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Ayesha Harruna Attah
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from The Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel published by Other Press Based on true events, a story of courage, forgiveness, love, and freedom...
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Marlon James
Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBuy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Marlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings, John Crow’s Devil, and The Book of Night Women, all...
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GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesGennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection, The Lumberjack's Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! “Serious art does not need to be weighty or...
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Chloe Aridjis
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...
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Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThursday, February 21 - 7:00 pm The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University I eat crumbs out of the baby's neck I'm glad...
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Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
The Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San FranciscoGloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez, moderated by Lauren Schiller. Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7 p.m. The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco,...
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Marina Mularz
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMarina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...
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Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesEdna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped...
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Creating Leonardo: Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo’s Legacy
Marines' Memorial Club 609 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesHumanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore...
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Bawdy Storytelling “Dirty Dozen”
Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesSaturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM, Stories at 7:00 PM (NOTE: This is...
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Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Best of Bawdy’ (10 PM, SF)
Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesSaturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 9:30 PM, Stories at 10:00 PM (NOTE: This is...
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Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing
San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CAMore than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...
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Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesThe Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from...
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Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAnya Martin and Nick Mamatas
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Tommy Orange
Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBuy 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...
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DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesDESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal Monday, April 8, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Conversations...
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SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...
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Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statescelebrating 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...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...
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Nona Caspers and Friends
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin 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...
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Lloyd Kahn
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesA 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...
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Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCome celebrate Lew Ellingham's 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book, 2018; new narrative exponent, poet, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about...
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REBECCA SOLNIT
Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBuy 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,...
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BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBerkeley Arts & Letters presents a panel discussion on the future of artificial intelligence and the nature of human existence. Please note: This event is...
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THE RACKET!
Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesDetails soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
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Mikhail Iossel, author of Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesIn Conversation with Will Durst Come to the scathing! Join Russian émigré Iossel (journalist, novelist) and the Bay's most illustrious political satirist Durst in what...
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Jen Beagin
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJen 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...
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WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThursday, 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,...
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Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll
The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThe Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco, CA RSVP Translators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true...