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Kathleen McClung is the author of two collections of poetry, The Typists Play Monopoly (2018) and Almost the Rowboat (2013). Her poetry, memoir, and fiction...

an evening of poetry with Matt Potter, Carly Moore, and Dia Felix Hosted by Kevin Killian

Join Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc series (set in Paris) AND Noe Valley resident for a special Summer Stride...

Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Praise for Rising “Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a...

The Bindery hosts the launch event for Heather June Gibbons' Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize. More information to be announced...

About Hard To Do From Jane Austen to Taylor Swift, a look at the surprising politics of romantic love and its dissolution.   Whatever the...

Join feminist artists and activists Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl—the Bay Area duo behind the New York Timesbest-selling books Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, for the San Francisco...

Release party for "the World has a Timestamp, and so do I" by Ash Tre` Philips

SF Zine-fest hosts hosts a pop up in the back gallery featuring work from local artists, writers and zine-makers   Reading at 7 (readers TBA)

PINBALL. BOOZE. LIT. A brief reading and free party from TYRANT BOOKS to drop-kick UNDER THE SEA, a new book by Mark Leidner, out into...

Doors open: 6:00pm Event starts: 6:30pm The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina San Francisco, CA Books for sale via Borderlands Books The SF in SF podcast...

Writer and labor lawyer Jonathan Karmel has written Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace, about the cost to workers and their...

It's summer time and instead of throwing on a banana hammock and crisping our flesh to a chestnut glow, we're going to get a bunch...

Rachel Heng discusses her new novel, Suicide Club with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Praise for Suicide Club “How can such a young writer know all these things? Rachel Heng’s first...

On Doing Nothing by Roman Muradov In an age of obsessive productivity and stress, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and...

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - 6 p.m. LOCATION: Main Library, 100 Larkin St. San Francisco, CA 94102 View a map and get...

Join us when Cara Black reads from her new Aimée Leduc novel Murder on the Left Bank.  In this novel a confession fifty years in the...

The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of...

Please join us for a lively discussion about “Hasta no verte Jesus Mio” by Elena Poniatowska To join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com

The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleepfeatures hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and...

The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. POETS: Mahnaz...

Please join us on Clement street on Thursday, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Elizabeth Cooperman & Thomas Walton to celebrate the release of their new book...

Victoria Patterson discusses her new story collection, The Secret Habit of Sorrow. Praise for The Secret Habit of Sorrow “Patterson is on a mission to bring our ghosts...

Join us for our monthly Russian book club, literary discussion, and/or poetry recital.   Koret Auditorium Main Library