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  • EXIT Press Playwrights Panel

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak.

  • MPC Stump the Laureate: Dana Gioia

    Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    Come and recite your favorite poem by a published author. California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem.

  • José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader - An Evening of Poetry.

  • Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)

    Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    One of England’s finest and most loved writers, Alan Bennett, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story.

  • Sarah Ladipo Manyika

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun.

  • Dani Shapiro

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

    Dani Shapiro reads from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage.

  • Lunada Literary Lounge & Free Me Fast

    Galería de la Raza 2857 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    An evening of youth spoken word, song, + community Open Mic.

    $5

  • Benjamin Ludwig

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Discussing Ginny Moon.

  • Dodie Bellamy + Kevin Killian

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

    Celebrating the release of Writers Who Love too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997

  • Marissa Moss

    Books Inc. Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.

  • Why There Are Words: Suggestible

    Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United States

    Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11, 2017, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible.

    $10

  • Evolving American Dream

    SHED 25 North Street, Healdsburg, CA, United States

    Two contemporary master story tellers, who focus on the immigrant experience, talk about how their novels and stories portray the current immigrant experience.

    $15

  • Glori Simmons

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection, Suffering Fools, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.

  • Laura McBride

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

    Laura McBride reads from her new novel 'Round Midnight.

  • Two Voices Salon: Simon Wickhamsmith

    Center for the Art of Translation office 582 Market St #700, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito converse about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era

  • Rewrite Your Life

    Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    A 3 day intensive workshop on healing through writing.

    $750

  • THERE 15

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

    It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest.

  • Anne Lammott: On Writing

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Join Anne Lamott, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview, a lecture, and a Q&A session.

    $160

  • “Say her name!”: Writing the poetry of witness

    Temescal Art Center 511 48th Street, Oakland, United States

    In this workshop, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay, Patricia Smith, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection, creative response, and action.

    $3.80 – $8.54

  • Butchertown Book Release Party!

    Stookey's Club Moderne 895 Bush St. at Taylor, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The first official book release party for Butchertown, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay.

  • Tenderloin Museum Turns Two

    Tenderloin Museum 398 Eddy St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/General Fund Portion of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.