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  • BINDERY: Chaya Bhuvaneswar / White Dancing Elephants

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with Chaya Bhuvaneswar for her debut story collection, White Dancing Elephants, winner of both the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize and...

  • Nick Mamatas & Michael Marshall Smith

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

    Doors open 6:00pm Event begins 6:30pm At the American Bookbinders Museum   Please join us for an evening with author Nick Mamatas reading and in conversation...

  • May-Lee Chai and Jamel Brinkley

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

    May-Lee Chai discusses her new story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants with Jamel Brinkley. Praise for Useful Phrases For Immigrants "May-lee Chai’s Useful Phrases for Immigrants holds multitudes, taking us into...

  • ODD SALON SAVANT

    Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    NOVEMBER 20 @ 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM $15 - $25 Join us for tales of unbound genius and uncanny intellect, mad scientists, extraordinary artists, and cunning masterminds Tuesday,...

    $15 – $25

  • The Racket #24: AFTER LIFE w/ Nona Caspers

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

    We're celebrating our two year anniversary with cake, beer, champagne and the absolutely amazing Nona Caspers reading from her debut novel The Fifth Woman. Nona's picked 5...

  • Bill Berkson Tribute

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

    Bill Berkson Tribute with appearances by Constance Lewallen Chou Chou Gordon Knos Jonathan Lewallen Siobhan Mora-Lopez Amanda Eicher Mac McGinnes celebrating the release of Since...

  • Writers & Poets Literary Salon+Reading: Bay Area Generations #63

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Bay Area Generations presents a literary salon and reading featuring live curated works of San Francisco Bay Area poets, writers and storytellers, with musical guest....

    $10

  • Jeffrey Yang

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

    Jeffrey Yang reading from new poetry and a new book: Hey Marfa: poems published by Graywolf Press Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the...

  • JONATHAN FRANZEN

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

    JONATHAN FRANZEN Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Cultural Studies  Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Since his debut novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen has...

    $29

  • Kevin Killian

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

    Kevin Killian celebrating the release of Fascination: Memoirs from Semiotexte A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents...

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a...

  • Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski

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

    Eric Karpeles on Józef Czapski in conversation with Cynthia Haven celebrating the release of three new books from New York Review Books: Inhuman Land: A Wartime...

  • Sarah Stone

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

    Sarah Stone discusses her new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater. Praise for Hungry Ghost Theater "Sarah Stone traces out the quirky, fateful dramas of one family, while...

  • Voices from the Resistance: A Conversation with Angela Davis

    Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Voices from the Resistance: Angela Davis in Conversation with Olga Talamante Moderated by Chelis Lopez A fundraiser for MAESTRAPEACE Book and the Chicana Latina Foundation...

    $25 – $80

  • SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND

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

    SENATOR KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND In Conversation with Marisa Lagos Friday, November 30, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Kirsten Gillibrand has served as United...

    $29

  • BAPC OPEN POETRY READING

    Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018: November 3, December 1 3:00 – 5:00 PM STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block...

  • Babylon Salon

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Babylon Salon presents our Winter Reading Saturday, Dec 1, 2018, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring -- Vanessa Hua is...

  • JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2018: COVENANT

    Nomadic Press: Uptown 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! It's going to be an amazing evening of readings,...

  • Red Light Lit at lille æske

    lille æske 13160 Central Avenue, Boulder Creek, CA, United States

    Saturday, December 1, 2018 8pm | Doors at 7:30pm Tickets: $10-$20 Sliding Scale Red Light Lit is a mashup of live music and poetry set to...

    $10 – $20

  • 2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair FIGHTING FOR THE AIR WE BREATHE

    CCSF mission campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, United States

    CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street The Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history, past, present and future. This...

    $5

  • Flight of Poets: Pairings for the Senses

    Sonoma Valley Museum of Art 551 Broadway, Sonoma, United States

    The best of California art, poetry, food, and wine all come together at our 3rd annual Pairings event. Meet Sonoma winemakers, chefs, and artists along...

    $25 – $35

  • GERD STERN @ 90

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    SUN. DEC. 2ND, 7PM Gerd Stern joins the circle of Beat nonagenarians this year, and we’re hosting a gathering to celebrate! Gerd has worn many...

  • City Arts & Lectures NADINE BURKE HARRIS

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

    In Conversation with Indre Viskontas Monday, December 3, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: "On Arts" Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program  Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 As...

    $29