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Walker Talks The last Sunday of each month (except June/July and December) from 2:30 to 4 pm The last Sunday of every month (except the...

Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. Praise for The Undying “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention...

Booksmith hosts editor Belo Miguel Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir) for Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities, alongn with contributors Caitlin Hernandez andDavid-Elijah Nahmod. Please join us! Take...

celebrating the relase of the latest issue of Freeman's Freeman's: California published by Grove Press Featuring work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Kushner, Mai...

EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel, Royal Holiday, on Tuesday, October 1st at 7pm. From the New...

Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. Green Apple Books and Music 506 Clement...

Reading excerpts from the new translation of his short fiction collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and other stories by Maxim Osipov Preface by Svetlana Alexievitch, edited...

The Bindery hosts the launch party for Jon Roemer's debut novel Five Windows. More to be announced soon, but please save the date and join us! At...

Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying dicuss their new cookcbook, The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider. About The Gaijin Cookbook...

discussing the subject of Ian Brennan's new book Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth published by PM Press Popular culture has woven itself into...

BINDERY: LAUNCH for Taneum Bambrick / Vantage and Graham Barnhart / The War Makes Everyone Lonely, with Rita Chang-Eppig & Claire Meuschke Thursday, October 3, 2019...

Max Tomlinson joins us to discuss his novel, Vanishing in the Haight. About Vanishing in the Haight Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying...

Sean Gasper Bye, Elisabeth Jaquette, Julia Sanches, Jeremy Tiang and Jeffrey Zuckerman, members of Çedilla & Co., a collective of literary translators representing a wide range of writers, languages,...

The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series, supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, re-commences this Fall 2019 with a double-program featuring outstanding composer-improvisers Fay Victor, visiting from...

  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 7:45 – 9:30 p.m. Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry,...

John James and Julia Guez read from their new poetry collections, The Milk Hours and In an Invisible Glass Case Which is Also a Frame. About The Milk...

The Bindery hosts a special event for the new comics anthology Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival, with contributing editor Diane Noomin and contributors Tyler...

Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space...

Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer, The Delineator, and Hambone. The Spoonlight...

Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses his new novel, David Mogo, Godhunter. Praise for David Mogo, Godhunter “A number of books have been termed ‘godpunk,’ but Suyi Davies...

Join us for a reading and discussion of Cantoras, the newly acclaimed novel by Uruguayan American author Carolina de Robertis. A Bay Area resident, De...

Nick Flynn's latest book is I Will Destroy You, poetry that interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive, to remake and reform. But first...

Ian Haney López in conversation with Eva Paterson Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Presented by City...