mmy Award winner Henry Winker and Lin Oliver are back for the second installment of the New York Times bestselling middle grade series that Diary of a Wimpy...
The Distance Between Us BY REYNA GRANDE Grande puts a human face on the fraught issue of immigration in her acclaimed memoir. At age nine,...
Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. San Francisco’s school...
Booksmith and The Bindery host New York Times bestselling author and artist Reza Farazmand for his first graphic novel City Monster! Please note: This is a ticketed event, with each...
Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal...
Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library Thursday, November 19, 7:00pm featuring Patricia J. Machmiller & Mimi Ahern online on Zoom (login to come) or find your...
"A Border, like race, is a cruel fiction." Mazza Writer in Residence Wendy Trevino, with Zaina Alsous, reading and in conversation Thursday, November 19 -...
Join the bookstore's Stephen Sparks and a panel of writers for a discussion of the work of the late Charles Bowden, whose "Unnatural History of...
Please join us on Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on adult nonfiction in this third episode of our Great...
A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
W. KAMAU BELL: RACE & JOURNALISM in conversation with Chan’Cellore Makanjuola Co-presented with UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm Pacific Time...
Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series, with a roundtable...
In "One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father’s Russia" San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through one...
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium RSVP for Zoom link: spt-nov.eventbrite.com Mary Burger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland CA....
Weekly Zoom performance series "for the foreseeable future." ZAZA SIXTEEN is Taylor Johnson and Edmund Berrigan Friday, November 20, 6 pm PST / 8 pm...
Join us on Friday, November 20 at 6pm PST when Simon Han discusses his debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened, with Meng Jin on Zoom! Preorder here and receive a...
Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and Marcus Books present: A virtual event with Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation with Adam Serwer, on Friday, November...
Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to...
From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. Facing You is a collection of love...
Join CHSA in welcoming brothers Jim & Philip Chiao for an exploration into the history of Chinese in the Pacific salmon canning industry. In 1852,...
JT ft Tongo Eisen-Martin, William Archila, Barbara Jane Reyes Named after the Fruitvales’s historic neighborhood in Oakland, Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly...
Deborah Madison’s An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables is a warm, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. Deborah...
Jamie Ritchie, head of Sotheby’s wine, is proud to present The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia, an essential reference for oenophiles—long used as the go-to text for...
a reading and discussion of the great Romanian-born poet Paul Celan on the occasion of his 100th birthday with Judith Butler, Fady Joudah, and more guests TBD...
Tuesday, November 24 at 7:00 PM | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Environment/Nature Women/Gender Camille T. Dungy, Helen Macdonald Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H is For Hawk, a transcendent...
Please join us on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett's new novel, THE...
Fifteen years ago, Kathleen became the owner of A Great Good Place for Books. On this Saturday, we'll celebrate Kathleen throughout the day. Please come...
Well friends, 2020 has been a hell of a year. And here we are, almost at the end of it. Join me this traditional season...
This particular version of Round Robin with a run time of three weeks is built with the holidays in mind. It is designed to offer writers a...
Marlena Fiol, author of Nothing Bad Between Us, will be in conversation with renowned author Joshua Coleman in a very special virtual event. Join them on Sunday, November...