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    Virtual Quiet Lightning!

    Virtual Quiet Lightning, Monday May 4, 2020 We’ll be streaming at this link. Doors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. Other ways to connect: Meeting ID:...

    Free

  • Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands at Bookshop Santa Cruz

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

    From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she...

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  • Berkeley Noir

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley

    Editors (and Moe's workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic's latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley brings...

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    Alia Volz in conversation with Paul Yamazaki

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

    Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from...

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  • Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands

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

    Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. Praise for Death in Her Hands “When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary...

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  • Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett

    De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge 928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA, United States

    DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St. Marys...

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  • Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett

    DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Online https://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vp0qde6upz8sb00VbumXa71hDPDicEk64A DESCRIPTION: THEN WE CAME TO THE END Whether your...

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  • HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS! A Virtual Book Club

    Book Club Discussion of Alfred Camus The Plague featuring Emily St John Mandel, Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan Sponsored by Alfred Knopf and City Lights **This is a virtual event that...

  • Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

    A Great Good Place for Books 6120 La Salle Ave., Oakland, California

    Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, May 6 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen's favorite books of the...

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    Karen Tei Yamashita

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

    celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection Sansei and Sensibility published by Coffee House Press Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's...

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  • Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel, Death In Her Hands. From one of our most...

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    Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett

    Soda Center, Claeys Lounge SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA, United States

    DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: Soda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View a...

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  • Stephanie Danler: Stray

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

    Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir, Stray. About Stray From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and...

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    Lunch Poems: Student reading

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    One of the year’s liveliest events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well...

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    Margaret Randall in conversation with Garrett Caples

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

    discussing the subject of Margaret Randall's new book I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary from Duke University Press In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret...

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  • JIA TOLENTINO & JENNA WORTHAM

    Watch the upcoming webcast on our YouTube channel → You can support the cost of this public webcast by making a tax-deductible donation. Thank you...

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  • Tolentino and Wortham

    Jia Tolentino & Jenna Wortham

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

    TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Social Studies Called “the best young essayist at work in the United States” by...

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  • Anne Raeff: Only the River

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

    Anne Raeff discusses her new novel Only the River with ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon. Praise for Only the River “In this novel, Anne Raeff weaves a multigenerational tale of love and...

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