• Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)

    Qulture Collective 1714 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O'Neal and Janae Johnson. Every...

    Free
  • Shiv Kotecha, Ed Steck, and Syd Staiti

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! Shiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015). Writing can also...

  • Katy Butler, The Art of Dying Well

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • Carolyn Forché

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

    Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. Praise for What You Have Heard Is True...

  • BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Siri Hustvedt / Memories of the Future

    Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Berkeley Arts & Letters presents international bestselling author of The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt for Memories of the Future, a provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination...

    $12 – $48
  • Karen Russell and Michael Ray

    Karen Russell discusses her new story collection, Orange World with Zoetrope editor Michael Ray. Praise for Karen Russell “Amidst the leading pack of talents Karen Russell writes the...

  • THE RACKET!

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

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Ruby Ray

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

    celebrating the release of Ruby Ray: Kalifornia Kool / Photographs 1976-1982 Introduction by Carl Abrahamsson published by Trapart Spanning music, art and literature, the industrial...

  • Adam Morris and Chris Jennings

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

    Adam Morris discusses his new book, American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation with Chris Jennings. About American Messiahs A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our...

  • EAR HUSTLE In Conversation with Al Letson

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Friday, March 29, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Social Studies Tickets Sold Out! Ear Hustle presents stories of life inside prison, shared by those living...

    $29
  • LAUNCH for Cindy Derby / How to Walk an Ant

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Cindy Derby's debut picture book, How to Walk an Ant. Please save the date and join us...

  • POETS! – Michael Koch + Robert Anbian followed by an open mic

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    A Night Horn Press celebration...  On April 1st, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate...

  • Laurie Halse Anderson

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    We are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for her new book, SHOUT, a memoir and call to action...

    $5 – $22
  • Clive Thompson on the Future of Coding

    HanaHaus 456 University Ave, PAlo Alto, CA

    A comprehensive cultural portrait that Kirkus recommends for fans of John Markoff and Ari Levy, Clive Thompson offers smart, funny, necessary reporting with Coders: The...

    $10 – $40
  • K Chess

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

    This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. K Chess discusses her new novel, Famous Men Who Never Lived. Praise for Famous Men Who...

  • Unnamed Press @ City Lights with Rheea Mukherjee & Adam Nemett

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

      Rheea Mukherjee reads from The Body Myth Adam Nemett reads from We Can Save Us All About The Body Myth: A moving exploration of loss, Mukherjee delivers...

  • Meredith May – – The Honey Bus

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Meredith May to discuss her new new book The Honey Bus, on Tuesday, April 2nd at 7pm. An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather...

  • Laurie Halse Anderson, SHOUT

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson for a discussion and signing of her new book, SHOUT – a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo...

  • BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Nathan Englander / Kaddish.com

    Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Pulitzer finalist Nathan Englander for his new novel, Kaddish.com. More information to come, but save the date and join us!   Please note:...

    $12 – $46
  • T Kira Madden and Pam Zhang

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

    T Kira Madden discusses her new memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, with Pam Zhang. Praise for Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls...

  • Lynn Breedlove

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

    reading from his new book 45 Thought Crimes from Manic D Press 45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in...

  • April in Paris: Springtime in Blossom

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

    Featured readers: James Cagney, Sara McAulay, George Korolog, Lucille Lang Day. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....

  • RACHEL KLEINFELD at Books Inc. Berkeley

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld discusses her comprehensive work, A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to...

  • MARGARET DUMAS at Books Inc. Palo Alto

    Books Inc. Palo Alto 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Local author Margaret Dumas shares the first book in her humorous mystery series, Murder at the Palace: Movie Palace Mystery #1. Welcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing:...