• Colossus: Home Reading

    Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf

  • Alta Asks Live: Keenan Norris

    Author Keenan Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight on Wednesday, November 4 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time for an intimate discussion...

  • Berkeley Lunch Poems: Aria Aber

    Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...

  • Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryke

    Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryker, 2020–22 Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor of Women's Leadership (RSVP to receive the event link) Thursday, November 5, 2020...

  • Writers Against Trump

    Writers Against Trump Join us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event...

  • Virtual Reading: Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain

    Join us on Thursday, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...

  • Mauro Javier Cárdenas

    reading from his new novel Aphasia published by Farrar Straus Giroux Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—"an original, insubordinate novel" (New...

  • Ayşegül Savaş Reading

    You must register to attend this event! Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. Ayşegül...

    Free
  • November Manuscript Intensive Program

    Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one...

    $770.00
  • Odd Mondays Reading “Far Away Places”

    Odd Mondays Reading "Far Away Places" Now that the election is (sort of) over, are you looking for escape? Or were you already ready to...

    Free
  • San José Poetry Slam

    San José Poetry Slam Sunday, November 8, 6:30pm sign-ups, 7pm slam! Featuring Michael Jasso Hosted by San Jose Slammaster Scorpiana Xlent! Zoom information to be announced...

  • Bookseller Happy Hour: GIFT PICKS

    Make gift giving easy! Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers share terrific books that make great gifts...

  • Well-RED

    Well-RED Reading Series Tuesday, November 10, 7:00pm featuring "California Burning: NorCal and Coast" online on Zoom register here and join at the event time! or phone...

    Free
  • Chris Hedges: The Culture of Despair

    online

    Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Project Censored Hosted by Mickey Huff With the election over, it's the perfect time to get the reliably candid...

    $5 – $20.
  • Alta Asks Live: Eddie Muller

    Grab your popcorn and settle in for a chat with Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley and founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation....