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.
Each year the Center for the Art of Translation sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
FREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under, free.
Charmaine Craig shares her masterful new novel, Miss Burma.
The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity.
50+ Writers, 3 Minutes Each!
This appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos, bringing the total in the book to 70!
For Adults and High School Students only.
RHINO Poetry magazine's 40 Readings in 40 Cities tour as part of their 40th anniversary.
The Poets of Color Podcast is dropping June 2017 and your host's Asha Sudra & Chris "L7" Cuadrado need your help to make it happen!
Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.
Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in the library. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.
Poets Kim Shuck and Dan Vera will host a poetry workshop for young adults, by drawing on the poetry anthology, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands
All Ages Welcome!
Babylon Salon is a San Francisco-based showcase and community of writers, performers, readers, singers, musicians, magicians, imbibers (of spirits and spirit), and revelers.
Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras, identity, and art.
A one-day class on T.S. Eliot with Nils Peterson, discussing "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Wasteland" and one of the Quartets.
Banty Hen, Andrea Passwater, and Rosie Cima perform music to poetry.
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel, Touch.
Readings by Aamina Ahmad, Peg Alford Pursell, Michael Shewmaker, + Shelley Wong.
This will be a free show, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist.
This powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice.
A first come, first serve reading group.
Booksmith is thrilled to host writer and editor Lisa Locascio for the launch of Golden State 2017: New Writing from California.
A night of reading!
A night of Beat Poetry!
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Robert Hass, Douglas Manuel, and Charles Hood to the store to discuss and sign their latest works.
Reading from her short fiction debut, Large Animals.
Each reading will have a theme, June 7th being The Beautiful One's Birthday will be a tribute to Prince.
Booksmith is excited to host author Trina Robbins for her new graphic novel, A Minyen Yidn!