• Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...

  • Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    TBD
  • Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, ca

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

    Free
  • Tommy Orange

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

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 With his stunning debut novel, There There, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and...

    $29
  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...

  • Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon

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

    celebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...

  • Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Tuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...

  • Charlie Jane Anders

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

    The Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction,...

    Free
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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

         reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...

  • Nona Caspers and Friends

    James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers' latest book, the novel, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal...

    Free
  • Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    #we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...

    Free
  • Lloyd Kahn

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

    A Celebration of The Pacific Ocean: Lloyd Kahn's Latest Book, Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast from Shelter Publications Preceded by Discussion and Vintage...

  • Renowned SF Poet Lew Ellingham Celebrates Birthday With Book Launch

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

    Come celebrate Lew Ellingham's 80+ (?) birthday wherein he will launch his new book, 2018; new narrative exponent, poet, and playwright Kevin Killian talks about...

    Free
  • Jill Abramson: This Is Now with Angie Coiro

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

    One of the news media's most qualified voices examines critical information battlegrounds: old media vs. new, documented veracity vs. clickbait. Jill Abramson follows four companies—...

    $15 – $45
  • REBECCA SOLNIT

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

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Rebecca Solnit is an incisive voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, western and indigenous history to literary criticism,...

    $29
  • THE RACKET!

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Nayomi Munaweera

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

    THURSDAY February 28, 2019 7PM MLK Library, Room 225/229 San José State University Reading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Professor of...

  • Jen Beagin

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

    Jen Beagin discusses her new novel, Vacuum in the Dark Praise for Jen Beagin “How can you resist a love story in which the object of...

    Free
  • James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River

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

    About the Book Tens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book...

    Free
  • WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? Film screening and discussion with director Astra Taylor

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

    Thursday, February 28, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form,...

    $29
  • Lord: Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris on João Gilberto Noll

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street | San Francisco, CA RSVP Translators Edgar Garbelotto and Adam Morris join forces to discuss “one of Brazil’s true...

  • Children’s Storyteller Series

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    CHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Come enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children's book series "Too-Tall Foyle"....

    Free
  • What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    ***Friday, March 1st, Wolfman Books, Downtown Oakland, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By Alec West Philip...

  • Teen Poetry Open Mic

    Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Bring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate - Oakland Samuel...

    Free
  • After Hours – Record Listening Night: 1972

    Main Reading Room, Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    After Hours - Record Listening Night: 1972 Friday, March 1st · 7:00pm The year of the Watergate break-in, the first Price is Right, and the release...