Conversations with Authors – Lan Cao (Virtual Event)
Lan Cao’s dual first-person memoir, Family in Six Tones—co-authored with her American daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao—explores their complicated relationship, culture clash, and how they have...
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Poetry Mentorship with Brian Tierney
This remote poetry “class” offers a unique opportunity for personal and intimate poetry instruction. Students will work with Brian Tierney one-on-one, via written correspondence over...
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Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado
This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...
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VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She'll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! ** Please note **...
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Deborah Madison, An Onion in My Pocket
Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...
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Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion
onlineBrandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...
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Tiffany Shlain with Arianna Huffington – 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection (Virtual Event)
Winner of The Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award • People’s New Book Worth Reading • Entrepreneur’s 12 Productivity and Time-Management Books to Read “I’m won over to...
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Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna
celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...
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VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity
Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He'll be in conversation...
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A Witch In Time by Constance Sayers | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Constance Sayer's new novel, A...
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Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)
Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...
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Writers Who Want to Get Noticed: Online Literary Profiles, with Lyzette Wanzer (via Zoom), Oct. 21
WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 21 — DEC. 2 | One of the biggest challenges writers face is getting their work the recognition it deserves. You’ve been sending...
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Yotam Ottolenghi – Ottolenghi Flavor (Virtual Event)
The New York Times bestselling author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ innovative, super-delicious, plant-based...
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Beast Generation Uprising
onlineBeast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....
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Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!
We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone's favorite construction crew is back...
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SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
onlineThe riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...
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Third Man Books Night @ City Lights
Celebrating three awesome new books! Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...
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VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago
Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...
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Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery
onlineJohn Darnielle (Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, the Mountain Goats), Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown), Daniel Lavery (Something That May...
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Publish Your Opinion, with Laird Harrison (via Zoom), Oct. 22
HURSDAYS, OCT. 22 — 29 |Your opinion matters. You have taken the time to research an issue and think it through. Now how can you...
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Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen (Virtual Event)
In between World Wars, during the Great Depression, American democracy was threatened by a shadow Nazi party, complete with a self-proclaimed American Hitler and a...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas
onlineAn afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...
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Funeral Diva
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...
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Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh
Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...
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Jumpstart Your Memoir Writing! with Kerry Muir
Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools...
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Writing the Big Themes with Erin Rodoni
Love. Loss. Transformation. These themes are so integral to the human experience that writers have returned to them again and again for centuries. But how...
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Creative Writing 101 with Kathy Garlick
“Have you wanted to test the waters of creative writing but don’t know where to begin, or how?" asks instructor Kathy Garlick. “Have you waded...
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On Point: Crafting a Short-Form Point of View Piece with David Jacobson
“Many people are driven to write by the simple human need to express ourselves,” says instructor David Jacobson. “There may be no better way to...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Libby Copeland, The Lost Family
onlineThe Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...
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Conversations with Authors – Claire Messud (Virtual Event)
Claire Messud‘s latest release, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, opens a window on her own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm,...