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  • How The Irish Won The West

    Charley's Los Gatos 15 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, CA, United States

    Discussing + music.

    $25

  • Peninsula Literary readings

    Gallery House 320 California Ave., Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Join us for a reading of poetry and prose!

  • Viet Thahn Nguyen: Houston Lecture

    Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

    Viet Thanh Nguyen is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer, a New York Times bestseller. His current short story collection The Refugees has also become a bestseller.

  • San Jose Poetry Festival

    History Park San José 1650 Senter Road, San Jose , CA, United States

    The Third Annual San José Poetry Festival will celebrate our community's diverse ethnic and cultural heritage with a wide range of topics and literary styles reflected in performances and workshops.

  • An Evening w/ David Sedaris

    Center for the Performing Arts 255, Almaden Blvd, CA, United States

    As always, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections, as well as a Q&A session and post-show books signing.

  • Red Wheelbarrow 2017

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

    Issues of the new Red Wheelbarrow 2017 available for sale.

    $2

  • phren-Z, Live Reading

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

    Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work.

  • Flash Fiction Forum

    Works Gallery 364 S. Market St., San Jose, CA, United States
    Free

  • Michio Kaku

    San Mateo Performing Arts Center 600 N Delaware St., San Mateo, CA, United States

    Michio Kaku is the cofounder of string field theory, science advisor to CBS This Morning, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including The...

    $15 – $50

  • Rebecca Skloot and Family of Henrietta Lacks

    Cemex Auditorium, Zambrano Hall Knight 641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, United States

    Join us for an evening with both Rebecca Skloot and members of the Lacks family to discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks, the subject of...

    Free

  • Flash Fiction Forum

    Works Gallery 364 S. Market St., San Jose, CA, United States

    Works Gallery –  364 S. Market St. (street edge of the Convention Center), San José, California.

    Free

  • Don George

    SJSU MLK Library 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA, United States

    National Geographic has called Don George “a legendary travel writer and editor.” Don’s new book is The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George. He also...

    Free

  • Junot Diaz

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

    From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power...

    $5 – $25

  • LEGACY OF POETRY SLAM: FINALS

    Student Union Theater, San Jose State University 1 Washington Square, San Jose , CA, United States

    The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the...

    FREE

  • Legacy of Poetry Slam: Finals

    Student Union Theater, San Jose State University 1 Washington Square, San Jose , CA, United States

    The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the...

    Free

  • Leonard Mlodinow with Michael Shermer

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

    Out of the exploratory instincts that allowed our ancestors to prosper hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans developed a cognitive style that Mlodinow terms...

    $15 – $50

  • Luis Alberto Urrea

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

    Bookshop welcomes award winning author Luis Alberto Urrea for a book discussion and signing of The House of Broken Angels. In his final days, beloved and...

    Free

  • Katherine Applegate

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

    Meet beloved author Katherine Applegate  and fall in love with Wishtree, a heartwarming story that reveals the powers of love, healing, and community Red is an...

    Free

  • Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones

    Oshman Family JCC 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

    Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may...

    $10 – $36

  • Legacy of Poetry Festival: Javier Zamora

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library 150 East San Fernando Street Room 590, San Jose, CA, United States

    Poetry reading and conversation with Javier Zamora. Meet one of the most important younger poets emerging in the United States, Javier Zamora. Author of the...

    Free

  • Michael Gazzaniga with Kara Platoni

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

    Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the...

    $15 – $50

  • ‘Every Note Played’

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

    "Every Note Played" vividly depicts ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). As author Lisa Genova did in her previous New York Times bestselling novels, "Still Alice," "Inside...

    $10 – $28

  • Poetry/Karaoke Dinner

    PACC - Pakistani American Community Center 372 Turquoise St, Suite # 4, Milpitas, CA, United States

    This is an informal monthly program on every second Friday of the month. You can recite your favorite poem or sing a song. Dinner is...

    $10

  • This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Leslie Jamison on Alcoholism

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

    Leslie Jamison is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Harper's, among others, and she...

    Free

  • Lewandowski Poet: Peter Balakian

    Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Ozone Journal, Peter Balakian shares a reading and conversation with San José State University President Mary Papazian....

    $10 – $50

  • Peter Balakian

    Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

    Lewandowski Poet In conjunction with Legacy of Poetry Day.

  • William Vollmann

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

    William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both...

    $15 – $55