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  • Alta Live: Mark Bittman and Alice Waters

    online CA, United States

    Food doesn’t just keep us alive—it’s a vital and constantly evolving part of our global culture. Author and food journalist Mark Bittman’s new book, Animal, Vegetable,...

    Free

  • Virtual Event: Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren

    online CA, United States

    Join us on Wednesday, May 12 at 6pm PT when Peter Filkins and Rosanna Warren join us to discuss their latest collections, Water/Music and So...

    Free

  • Jhumpa Lahiri – Whereabouts (Online Event)

    A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies—her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in...

  • Forrest Gander: Twice Alive

    online

    Litquake's Epicenter: A Virtual Series Bringing writers from around the world to your computer screen Co-presented by City Lights Books & Booksellers Litquake is thrilled...

    Free

  • Stacey Abrams in conversation with Rebecca Traister

    online CA, United States

    Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS Stacey Abrams was instrumental in driving an enormous number of voter registrations in Georgia, including some 800,000 new voters...

    $49

  • Reading: Rick Barot & Barbara Jane Reyes

    online CA, United States

    This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and...

    Free

  • Poetry y Platica Live Online at The Green Arcade

    online CA, United States

    Wow! Black Freighter Press (new press whose co-founder is San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin) just published Josiah Luis’ book. The poems in Baby Axolotls &...

    Free

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Robert Ritchie, The Lure of the Beach

    Robert C. Ritchie will be in conversation with Gary Griggs about Ritchie's fascinating new book, The Lure of the Beach: A Global History—a chronicle of humanity's history with...

  • On Awakening Your Inner Shaman

    Virtual

    The stress, conflict, and crises of the outer world are a signal: the time has come to awaken your inner shaman. However, you don't need...

    $10.

  • Virtual Event: Kristin Hersh and Black Francis

    online CA, United States

    Join us on Friday, May 14 at 6pm PT when Kristin Hersh is joined by Black Francis to discuss her latest book, Seeing Sideways: A...

    Free

  • Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #58

    online CA, United States

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9 If you enjoy spaces like this...

    Free

  • Rikki Ducornet and Jeff VanderMeer

    Jeff VanderMeer joins Rikki Ducornet for a conversation about her new novel, Trafik (Coffee House Press). “Surrealism meets space opera in Trafik, Rikki Ducornet’s startlingly original look at a...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Julia Alvarez, Afterlife

    Bestselling author Julia Alvarez (In the Time of the Butterflies, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón about Alvarez's most...

  • Memory, Meaning and Memoir

    online CA, United States

    Presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival. A presentation of readings by...

    Free

  • Michael McClure: East Coast Memorial & Tribute

    Please join The Poetry Project and City Lights as we celebrate and remember Michael McClure, poet and beloved friend. Featuring readings and remembrances from: Ammiel Alcalay, David Brazil, Garrett Caples, Francesco Clemente, David...

  • Lone Glen: de la Perrière/Hong/Hume

    online CA, United States

    On Tuesday May 18th, the Lone Glen series will feature writers Donna de la Perrière, Anna Maria Hong, and Christine Hume. Join us on zoom...

    Free

  • Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger

    online

    City Arts & Lectures presents: Jhumpa Lahiri in conversation with Monica Seger Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS This event appears in the...

    $29

  • Virtual Event: Kevin McIlovy and Peter Orner

    online CA, United States

    Join us on Tuesday, May 18 at 6pm PT when Kevin McIlvoy discusses his latest novel, One Kind Favor, with Peter Orner on Zoom! Zoom...

    Free

  • Virtual Get Lit #72

    online

    We're in our 6th consecutive year as we continue to celebrate 12–15 writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time...

    Free – $200

  • Aminatta Forna

    reading from The Window Seat: Notes From a Life In Motion published by Grove Press ---------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted...