• Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library

    Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose , CA, United States

    Third Thursday of Every Month Feature: Mighty Mike McGee open mic follows Willow Glen Library  1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or...

  • This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Sally Kohn

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

    Sally Kohn is currently a CNN political commentator and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Kohn was previously a Fox News contributor, and she has been...

    Free
  • Anna Yen

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

    Anna Yen has worked at a wide range of tech companies. She spearheaded investor relations for industry leaders such as Tesla Motors, Market Watch, and Pixar...

    $15 – $50
  • Carlo Rovelli

    Burlingame Theater 1 Mangini Way, Burlingame, CA, United States

    Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli is the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University and one of the founders...

    $15 – $50
  • San Jose Poetry Slam

    Gordon Biersch 33 E. San Fernando St., San Jose, CA, United States

    First Monday of each month with host Scorpiana Xlent

    $5 – $10
  • Well-RED

    Works/San José 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, United States

    features: Deborah Kennedy and Ken Weisner open mic follows at Works/San José 365 South Market Street in downtown San José doors open 6:30pm $2 admission, no...

    $2
  • Christopher Moore

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

    Christopher Moore is the author of fifteen previous novels: Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Lamb,...

    $15 – $50
  • Claudia Rankine at Stanford Live

    Bing Concert Hall 327 Lasuen St., Stanford, CA, United States

    African American poet Claudia Rankine speaks to the human condition in all its many manifestations. A winner of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and author of...

    $20
  • Simon Winchester

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

    Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who...

    $15 – $50
  • Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind

    Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, United States

    OFFSITE & TICKETED: Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome back Michael Pollan,...

    $33
  • Pamela Druckerman

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

    Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of Bringing Up Bébé; and Lust In Translation. She was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and has written for The...

  • Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

    Cubberley Theatre 4000 Middlefield Road, T2, Palo Alto

    Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, Yossi Klein Halevi directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in his new taut and provocative book,...

    $18 – $43
  • Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach

    Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, United States

    Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and...

    $20
  • Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad

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

    Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes beloved and best-selling author Laurie R. King back...

  • Well-RED with features: ASHA and Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour

    Works/San José 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, United States

    at Works/San José 365 South Market Street in downtown San José doors open 6:30pm $2 admission, no one turned away Works is on the Market Street...

    $2
  • Fiction Discussion Group

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

    Autumn by Ali Smith Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Two old friends--Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984--look to both the future and...

  • Tommy Orange, There There

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

    Tommy Orange, There There Monday, June 18, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Tommy Orange for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated debut...

  • Susie Bright, Santa Cruz Noir

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

    Susie Bright, Santa Cruz Noir Tuesday, June 19, 2018 - 7:00pm Local writer and editor Susie Bright will discuss and sign copies of her highly-anticipated...

  • Katharine Dion

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Launch celebration for her debut novel, The Dependents, a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. "A marvel of a...

  • Joel Selvin, Fare Thee Well

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

    Joel Selvin, Fare Thee Well Thursday, June 21, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes music journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin for a discussion...

  • Story is the Thing

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

    Join us on Thursday, June 21st for our quarterly reading series - Story is the Thing - that highlights established authors and stars on the...

  • Jonathan White, Tides

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

    Jonathan White, Tides Monday, June 25, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes marine conservationist Jonathan White for a reading and signing of his new book, Tides: The...

  • Michael Isikoff & David Corn, Russian Roulette

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

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Michael Isikoff and David Corn—"Two of the best and most accomplished investigative reporters of their generation... superpower reporting team" (Rachel Maddow)—for a...

  • Terry Brooks

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

    With 23 New York Times bestsellers and 21 million copies of his books in print, Terry Brooks is one of America’s most celebrated authors. Join...

  • Chloe Benjamin and Aja Gabel

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

    Friends and talented literary voices, Chloe Benjamin and Aja Gabel will be in conversation to discuss their fantastic new novels. Benjamin’s national bestseller and Bookshop staff...