AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners
The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san franciscoJean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...
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VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Melanie Abrams & Andrew Altschul
Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...
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Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves
Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...
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Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends
Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...
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Sasha Abramsky – Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar
Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLittle Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...
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America’s Most Unusual Marriage: Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein
Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...
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Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System
So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...
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DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...
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Hanif Abdurraqib with Jeff Chang
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Special Events Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He...
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Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi
Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi celebrating Ali Araghi's new novel The Immortals of Tehran published by Melville House --------- This is a virtual...
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Zeyn Joukhadar – The Thirty Names of Night
Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFive years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new...
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Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesEric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. Praise for Cuppy and Stew "CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the...
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We Are the Voices & City Lights Live Present: Alli Warren + Cedar Sigo
celebrating the release of Alli Warren's new poetry book Little Hill published by City Lights Event co-presented by We Are the Voices This is a virtual...
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Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes...
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VIRTUAL: Meredith Talusan in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan / Fairest: A Memoir
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She'll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in...
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YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.
Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. an online community event for enlivening...
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Quarantine Storytime // Miah Jeffra
During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our final...
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The Racket Weekly : A Necessary Distraction
The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION, JUNE 4th, 7PM ZOOM LINK TO COME You know what's good right now? Distraction. We know it looks...
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Author Alex George Discussing THE PARIS HOURS | GGP Online Zoom Chat
Please join us on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George, discussing his new historical fiction...
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Eves At The Virtual Beat
During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...
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Bill McKibben, Sy Montgomery, Jennifer Ackerman, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
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VIRTUAL: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with Eileen Donahoe / Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life
Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book, co-authored with Zara Houshmand, Running Toward Mystery:...
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Zoom Forward! #12 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #12
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Eric Cervini and Johnny Sibilly
Join us on Crowdcast on Friday June 5th at 7PM PDT for a conversation between author Eric Cervini and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly on The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of...
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Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave: A Zoom Puppet Story
Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon...
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Marianne Ingheim – Out of Love
Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United StatesWe all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion, we can rewrite...
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Babylon Salon
presents a special online performance Saturday, June 6, 2020 5pm PST / 8pm EST Register for our Zoom gathering presents a special online performance Saturday,...
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Zoom Forward! Catamaran Summer 2020 Issue Launch
VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event celebrating the Summer 2020 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post. This...
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Kathy Evans – Trespassers Welcome
Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United StatesKathy Evans's full-length debut, Trespassers Welcome, is an extravaganza of imaginative leaps, bounds, and deep dives, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections—from...