Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST 2020 SCHEDULE Welcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians https://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0 September 2, 1pm PT Burlingame Public Library...
30 events found.
Events
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Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua
virtualJoin us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...
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Conversations with Authors – Michael J. Sandel with Pete Buttigieg (Virtual Event)
Michael J. Sandel’s new book, The Tyranny of Merit, offers an alternative way of thinking about success—a view more attentive to the role of luck in...
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More with Less: Short Story Workshop with Hannah Michell
The short story accomplishes a feat that feels impossible--it gives us deep insight into characters and emotional resonance in the space of only a few pages. In...
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LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL
City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it...
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Intro to Fiction: Laying the Foundation with Junse Kim
"We writers too often need others to tell us that our writing is good," says instructor Junse Kim. "And this is where it all goes...
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Rick Riordan
GREAT NEWS! Join us to hear Rick Riordan chat about The Tower of Nero, the fifth and final installment in #1 New York Times bestselling...
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VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation...
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Joe Cottonwood
Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry...
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Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails
Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season's great new culinary and cocktail titles. We...
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VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet....
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Conversations with Authors – Elizabeth Lesser (Virtual Event)
Elizabeth Lesser’s newest book Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes reveals how humanity has outgrown its origin tales and hero myths, and empowers...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line
Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and...
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Poetry Workshop II with Hollie Hardy
You already know how to write a poem, but you want to reinvigorate and nourish your writing practice. If you’re looking for feedback, community, a...
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Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera
Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera....
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Flash Fiction Forum’s Fall Reading Series
Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems - live on Zoom!
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Creative Writing: At The Intersections with Taneasha White
Creative Writing: At The Intersections focuses on the identities we hold and how they contribute to making up who we are. Sometimes we don't have the...
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Writing from Your Life, with Meghan Ward (via Wet Ink), Oct. 15
THURSDAYS, OCT. 15 — NOV. 19 | Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours in 2020 with Writing From Your Life, an asynchronous six-week...
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Conversations with Authors – Steph Kent & Logan Smalley (Virtual Event)
Steph Kent and Logan Smalley’s book, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book, is a revival of the yellow-pages directory you remember, but instead of contact information, it is...
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VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...
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C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...
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The Memoir of Childhood: Memoir Workshop with Tommy Mouton
We understand the sheer power of our respective childhood and adolescent memories. But how can we harness this power to propel a narrative as well as capture...
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San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
onlineSan Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...
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Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...
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Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...
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Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CAA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
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THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar
ZOOOMTHE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...
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Terry Tempest Williams
Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....
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ACCENTED | She Who Has No Master(s): Would That
The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit "Would That" at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery The...
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Life in Space: Translation of a Poetry Book by Galina Rymbu
Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу), translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky,...