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  • POETRY EVENT!

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

    Featured readers tba Curated by Aakash Tyagi

  • Jane Ira Bloom Quartet – Improvising Emily Dickinson

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

    Jazz’s greatest living soprano saxophonist performs with her spectacular quartet including pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Mark Helias, and drummer Bobby Previte. Possessing a painterly style...

    $30

  • Jackson Burgess

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

    Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection...

  • KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

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

    Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything was...

    $29

  • Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go

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

    Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie...

  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING

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

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...

  • Dubravka Ugresic

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

    Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels, Fox and American Fictionary. Praise for Fox "Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent, in part because within...

  • Preti Taneja reading from her new novel We That Are Young

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

    We That Are Young published by Alfred Knopf A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power...

  • THE RACKET! #23: The Dark

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

    The summer's over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let's gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on...

  • Léonora Miano

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

    City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present Léonora Miano celebrating the release of Season...

  • Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...

  • Zulema Renee Summerfield / Every Other Weekend

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

    Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel, Every Other Weekend. Please join us!   The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. The...

  • Christian Kracht

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

    Christian Kracht reads from his new novel, The Dead. Praise for Christian Kracht “Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl...

  • KSW Presents ‘All This Wreckage, In Your Own Language’

    Kearny Street Workshop 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    KSW Presents "All This Wreckage, In Your Own Language," a reading featuring two debut novelists-Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart, and Ingrid...

    $8 – $20.

  • Jessica Hopper presents Night Moves, in conversation with Carvell Wallace

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

    Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on...

    Free

  • SALLY FIELD

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

    SALLY FIELD Friday, September 28, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Sally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring...

    $29

  • Jessica Hopper

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

    Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic, dicusses her new memoir, Night Moves. Praise for Night Moves "Jessica Hopper's Night...

  • 11TH ANNUAL BEAT MUSEUM POETRY FESTIVAL

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    IN ASSOCIATION WITH 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE SAT. & SUN. SEPT. 29TH & 30TH, 1-6PM Two days of poetry and music, produced by Fred Dodsworth, Paul...

  • FRAN LEBOWITZ

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

    FRAN LEBOWITZ In Conversation with Lawrence Rinder Saturday, September 29, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 In a cultural landscape filled with...

    $29

  • KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music

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

    Details soon! Featured readers - Musical guests: With your host Bloodflower

  • Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel, The Shape of the Ruins

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

    Juan Gabriel Vasquez discusses his new novel, The Shape of the Ruins. Praise for Juan Gabriel Vasquez "Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Shape of the Ruins is a highly...

  • Odd Salon : Risk

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

    Tales of peril and possibility, jeopardy and chance; of flirting with danger and being willing to lose it all RISK Tuesday,  October 2nd Public Works...

    $15 – $25

  • BOOKSMITH: Yung Pueblo / Inward

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

    Booksmith hosts a special evening with Yung Pueblo, to celebrate his first book Inward. Please join us!   Please note: this is a ticketed event, to be held...

    $18.50

  • 7pm Book Club

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

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