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  • Kevin Killian

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

    Kevin Killian celebrating the release of Fascination: Memoirs from Semiotexte A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents...

  • Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski

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

    Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski in conversation with Cynthia Haven celebrating the release of three new books from New York Review Books: Inhuman Land: A Wartime...

  • Sarah Stone

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

    Sarah Stone discusses her new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater. Praise for Hungry Ghost Theater "Sarah Stone traces out the quirky, fateful dramas of one family, while...

  • Voices from the Resistance: A Conversation with Angela Davis

    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Voices from the Resistance: Angela Davis in Conversation with Olga Talamante Moderated by Chelis Lopez A fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE Book and the Chicana Latina Foundation...

    $25 – $80

  • SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND

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

    SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND In Conversation with Marisa Lagos Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Kirsten Gillibrand has served as United...

    $29

  • Babylon Salon

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Babylon Salon presents our Winter Reading Saturday, Dec 1, 2018, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring -- Vanessa Hua is...

  • 2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair FIGHTING FOR THE AIR WE BREATHE

    CCSF mission campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, United States

    CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history, past, present and future. This...

    $5

  • GERD STERN @ 90

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

    SUN. DEC. 2ND, 7PM Gerd Stern joins the circle of Beat nonagenarians this year, and we’re hosting a gathering to celebrate! Gerd has worn many...

  • City Arts & Lectures NADINE BURKE HARRIS

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

    In Conversation with Indre Viskontas Monday, December 3, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: "On Arts" Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program  Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 As...

    $29

  • Norma Cole with Steve Dickison: An Omnidawn Party

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

    celebrating the release of two new books of poetry from Omnidawn Press Fate News by Norma Cole and Inside Song  by Steve Dickison about Fate News:...

  • Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg

    Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    On December 4, The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes Parkland activist, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and author David Hogg, to San Francisco...

    $30 – $60

  • The Wall of Birds

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

    Jane Kim and Thayer Walker discuss their new book, The Wall of Birds:One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years. About The Wall of Birds A celebration...

  • 1st Tuesday’s Spoken Word & Open Mic

    Cafe Envy 1701 Yosemite Ave, San Francisco

    1st Tuesday's Spoken Word TV showcase is a community event that creates a positive space for expression through the arts. We highlight local talent and...

    Free

  • George Lakey

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

    discussing the subject of his new book How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning by George Lakey from Melville House A lifetime...

  • 2ND SET: ‘OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM’ ANTHOLOGY RELEASE

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

    WED. DEC. 5TH, 7PM By popular demand, we’ve added a second night of readings from the newly released Overthrowing Capitalism: Volume Five. Featured readers: Lincoln Bergman...

  • BINDERY: Poetry from USF’s Graduate Program in Writing

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts the concluding event in Prof. D. A. Powell's "San Francisco Poetics," an open classroom experience celebrating poets in San Francisco. The founding director...

  • Joshua Rivkin and R.O. Kwon

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

    Joshua Rivkin discusses his new biography, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly, with R.O. Kwon. Praise for Chalk “Reviled when young, revered when old,...

  • Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson

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

    celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar's new book White Dancing Elephants from Dzanc Books In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse...

  • InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS

    Edinburgh Castle Pub 950 Geary St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary Street, San Francisco, Thursday December 6th, 7-9 pm, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree), and others. lapsarians...

  • WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?

    The Stud Bar 399 9th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT? A multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of '80s and '90s underground clubbing by pájaros, maricones, mariposas, mariquitas...

    Free

  • Writers with Drinks

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

    Jaymee Goh (The Sea is Ours: Steampunk Tales of Southeast Asia) Jennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems) Bryan Thao Worra (On the Other Side...

    $5 – $20

  • Tongues of Fire Reading Series

    Bound Together Bookstore 1369 Haight St,, San Francisco, CA, United States

    TONGUES OF FIRE Reading Series 8pm bound together anarchist collective bookstore, 1369 Haight St. Featuring Anna Allen, James Warner, Phyllis Oscar, and others!

  • Poetry Event: 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...