• Evening Literary Seminar: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward This gorgeous, down-to-earth National Book Award Winner is not to be missed. It’s not enough to say that Salvage...

    $48
  • Daytime Literary Seminar: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward This gorgeous, down-to-earth National Book Award Winner is not to be missed. It’s not enough to say that Salvage...

    $48 – $160
  • Lisa Locascio, Open Me

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Lisa Locascio for a reading and signing of her evocative novel, Open Me—the final event in our Debuts of Summer series.    Roxana...

  • Amplify: A Storytellling Conference for People of Color

    UC Berkeley

    Featuring workshops with Shanthi Sekaran on Writing Outside Your Cultural Experience, Norman Antonio Zelaya on Cadence, Community and Representation, and Vanessa Hua on Narrative Journalism, amongst others....

    $30
  • An Evening with Sean Penn, Author of ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’

    Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

    "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" (Atria Books) by two-time Academy Award(R)-winning actor, writer and director Sean Penn, is Mr. Penn's first novel. The darkly...

    $36 – $55
  • ‘Hitler, My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939’

    Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

    "Hitler My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939" is about Edgar Feuchtwanger's unique experience as a young boy, watching Hitler from inside the windows...

    $8 – $26
  • Litquake 2018

    Full schedule is here

  • Irish Arts & Writers Festival

    Los Gatos CA Los Gatos, California, CA

    The Irish Arts & Writers Festival brings together Irish writers and audiences in the historic and intimate town of Los Gatos, CA (located an hour...

    $50 – $150
  • Red Light Lit at lille æske

    lille æske 13160 Central Avenue, Boulder Creek, CA, United States

    Saturday, December 1, 2018 8pm | Doors at 7:30pm Tickets: $10-$20 Sliding Scale Red Light Lit is a mashup of live music and poetry set to...

    $10 – $20
  • Red Light Lit at lille æske

    lille æske 13160 Central Avenue, Boulder Creek, CA, United States

    Saturday, December 1, 2018 8pm | Doors at 7:30pm Tickets: $10-$20 Sliding Scale Red Light Lit is a mashup of live music and poetry set to...

    $10 – $20
  • San José Poetry Slam

    Cafe Stritch 374 S. First Street, San Jose, CA, United States

    Sunday, December 9 hosted by Mighty Mike McGee, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate feature: tba Doors and sign up list opens at 5:00pm Sign up...

    $5 – $10
  • MICHELLE OBAMA at SAP Center at San Jose

    SAP Center 525 W Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA, United States

    Books Inc. will be selling copies of Becoming, the memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, at her December 14 event with Michelle Norris...

    $95 – $126
  • NYMBC Presents KIERSTEN WHITE & ADRIENNE YOUNG at Palo Alto

    Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Not Your Mother's Book Club presents New York Times-bestselling author Kiersten White in celebration of Slayer--book one in her brand-new series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kiersten...

  • Paul Skenazy, Temper CA

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • AZATI SEHATTI at Books Inc. Mountain View

    Books Inc. Mountain View 301 Castro St, Mountain View , CA, United States

    Family nurse practitioner, nutritional consultant and health educator Azati Sehatti discusses her critical guides The Inner Control Is the True Control: Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes and The Inner Control Is the...

  • Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop is delighted to welcome Lyndsay Faye, author of the best-selling staff favorites Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham, for a reading and signing of her new novel, The...

  • RANDY SHAW at Books Inc. Mountain View

    Books Inc. Mountain View 301 Castro St, Mountain View , CA, United States

    Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, discusses his compelling new book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. Generation Priced...

  • Kristin Wilson, Others’ Milk

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • Mary Pipher: This is Now with Angie Coiro

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age It's one of our American ironies: our culture values older women less, just as...

    $15 – $45
  • YANovCon at the Millbrae Library

    Millbrae Library 1 Library Avenue, Millbrae, CA, United States

    The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today's top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates...

  • Spanish Book Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    El Impostor - Javier Cercas ¿Quién es Enric Marco? Un nonagenario barcelonés que se hizo pasar por superviviente de los campos nazis y que fue...

  • Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    "America does not negotiate with terrorists." But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist...

  • The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quest for a New Form of Matter

    Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

    When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all conceivable forms of matter. "The Second Kind of Impossible"...

    $10 – $18
  • MIKE CHEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto

    Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With pieces featured in The Mary Sue, The Portalist, and Tor, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel, Here and Now and Then. To save his daughter, he'll...

  • Pam Houston, Deep Creek

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir, Deep Creek:...

    Free
  • Analicia Sotelo

    San Jose Museum of Art 110 Market St, San José, CA, United States

    Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art THURSDAY February 7, 2019 7PM...