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  • Happy Endings

    Happy Endings: I Can’t Thank You Enough

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

    Gratitude is the moment. But we're kind of bad at it, right? Like, whenever someone says, "we should go around and say one thing we...

    $10

  • Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times

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

    Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the...

    Free

  • GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book Gloria Steinem is a writer, speaker, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine, where...

    sold out

  • Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart

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

    Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart. Praise for Native Country of the Heart "I love A Native Country of the Heart's forthright blending...

    Free

  • MFA in Writing Reading Series – Jamel Brinkley

    USF Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize,...

  • Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo...

    Free
  • flier for The Racket

    The Racket #36 : SOUND

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    To celebrate our third year of existence we've decided to tap the senses, to trod upon that which is most audible, to get a bunch...

    Free

  • Andrew McAfee

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

    Andrew McAfee, an MIT scientist and bestselling author, studies how modern digital technologies are reshaping our world.   Tickets will go on sale one month...

    TBA
  • flier for Love in the Time of Piñatas

    Love in the Time of Piñatas

    Z Below 470 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Written and Performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez Directed by Richard A. Mosqueda You’ve been invited! Join the writer, comedian, and solo performer Baruch Porras Hernandez...

    $25
  • photo of Ingrid Rojas Contreras by Jeremiah Barber

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Writing Studio @ CCA 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes &...

    Free

  • Savannah Shange

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

    discussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...

  • Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    AUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...

  • Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want

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

    Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...

    Free

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...

  • Jerome Rothenberg

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

    celebrating two new books The President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press The Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally...

  • Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games

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

    Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including, Busted!, a game from the 1970s about trying to start...

    Free

  • The Best Small Fictions 2019

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

    Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody, Natalie Hernandez, Joy Lanzendorfer, Kim Magowan, J.L. Montavon, and Kara...

    Free
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    Ben Lerner

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In conversation with Maggie Nelson Genre-bending poet, novelist, essayist, and critic Ben Lerner has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, Howard, and MacArthur Foundations. His...

    $29
  • flier for KSW's A History of Our Naming

    KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming”

    Arc Studios & Gallery 1246 Folsom St., San Francisco, California

    Kearny Street Workshop's bi-monthly reading series celebrates new poetry releases by Michelle Peñaloza and Đỗ Nguyên Mai. About this Event On Friday, November 22nd, KSW...

    $8 – $20
  • flier for The Bridge

    The Bridge: Between Poetry and Improv

    StageWerx 466 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Have your heart twisted and tickled by this hilarious and inspiring show that blends some of the best slam poetry and improvised comedy the Bay...

    $15
  • flier for A World Without Wars - Part 1

    A World Without Wars – Part 1

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

    IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY MAHNAZ BADIHIAN JIM NORMINGTON JOHN CURL BARBARA PASCHKE NELLIE WONG RAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ LYNNE BARNES...

    Free

  • William Gibson / Agency

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

    TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK Booksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He...

    $20

  • D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry

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

    DS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in...

    Free

  • Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...

    $30
  • flier for Palestinian Voices

    Palestinian Voices: Palestinians Tell Their Stories

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    Stories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny's, in partnership with Mothers on the March, is putting together an events...

    Free

  • Book Talk: Child of the Moon by Jessica Semaan

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    In her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront & moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear journey. "Child of the Moon"...

    $5