Joanna Ho
online CA, United StatesRSVP This is an online event Join us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book, Playing at the Border: A Story...
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Carolina de Robertis in Conversation, The President and the Frog
VirtualCarolina de Robertis discusses her latest book and the craft of writing and translating. Featuring a former Latin American president reminiscing on his remarkable life,...
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An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai
De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge 928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA, United StatesDATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St....
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Readers from ZYZZYVA No. 121, The Family Issue
San Francisco Public Library - Virtual LibraryCome celebrate the release of ZYZZYVA No. 121—The Family Issue—with a night of readings featuring contributors from the issue. ZYZZYVA is the award-winning literary magazine...
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Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold
De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge 928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA, United StatesDATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View...
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Mary Roach
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWednesday, September 29, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Mary Roach is the author of the books STIFF, SPOOK, BONK, GULP, GRUNT, and PACKING FOR MARS,...
$36
The Merwin Conservancy presents Garden of Verses
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/garden-of-verses-2021/register 74 Anuenue Pl, Kula, HI, United StatesOn Thursday, September 30th at 12:00 pm Hawai‘i (3:00 pm Pacific, 6:00 pm Eastern), The Merwin Conservancy will gather virtually with friends around the world...
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Bikes to Books 8-Year Anniversary Ride
Jack London Street Jack London Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIt’s a party and you’re all invited! Our signature 7.1 mile bicycle tour of literary San Francisco combines San Francisco history, art, literature, cycling, and...
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9th Ave: Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero and Noah Warren
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday, October 5th at 6pm PT when Sandra Lim, Natalie Shapero, and Noah Warren join us for an evening celebrating their latest...
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Seeds Bursting Open in Fire: Poetry & Justice Event
online CA, United StatesSeeds Bursting Open in Fire is a free virtual event featuring poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil (World of Wonders), Tamiko Beyer (Last Days), and Gabrielle Civil (( ghost gestures )) who will be reading...
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Matthew Clark Davison in conversation with Michael Nava
online CA, United StatesMatthew Clark Davison will be joined by Michael Nava to discuss his debut novel, Doubting Thomas. Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay...
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Rhys Bowen – God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen
online CA, United StatesBook Passage Presents Thurs., Oct 7, 2021 • 1:00pm PT • Live • Online Signed Copies Available! BUY THE BOOK WATCH HERE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER This event...
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Everyone’s a Critic
Whether it’s the role of take-downs, accusations of smarm, writers rebutting their reviews, or the daily Twitter discourse, the role of criticism in our culture...
$10
Joshua Ferris – A Calling for Charlie Barnes
online CA, United StatesBook Passage Presents Thurs., October 7, 2021 • 5:30pm PT • Live • Online BUY THE BOOK WATCH HERE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR E-NEWSLETTER This event will be...
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Gary Paulsen, How to Train Your Dad
online CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed and bestselling author Gary Paulsen for a virtual event celebrating his new middle grade novel, How to Train...
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9th Ave: Lilly Dancyger and Nina Renata Aron
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Friday, October 8th at 6pm PT when Lilly Dancyger reads from and discusses her memoir, Negative Space, with Nina Renata Aron at...
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The Five Senses of Community
Little Raven Gallery 1015 Howard St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us for a transmedia exploration of what makes & breaks community in the year 2021. How has a year of involuntary isolation for some...
$10
Offsite: Shrimp ‘N Lobster at the SF Botanical Gardens!
San Francisco Botanical Garden 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco, CA - CaliforniaJoin us on Saturday, October 9th at 1pm at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens with author Charlotte Rygh for an afternoon of drawing and fun...
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Steel Yourself Before You Reveal Yourself
A good journalist reports the story, but never becomes the story. But as essayists and non-fiction writers, we're not journalists. Sometimes our lives are, in...
$10
Rick Riordan
online CA, United StatesTICKETS RICK RIORDAN IS BACK! Join us online to hear Rick Riordan tell us all about his new action-packed underwater adventure, Daughter of the Deep, an exciting...
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Virtual Event: Victoria Chang and Ari Banias
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday, October 12th at 6pm PT when Victoria Chang and Ari Banias celebrate the launch of their latest books Dear Memory: Letters on...
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Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Saul Griffith with Laura Fraser / Launch for Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
online CA, United StatesBooksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are thrilled to present the launch for Saul Griffith and his book Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future. He'll be in...
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An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Christopher Feliciano Arnold
De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge 928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA, United StatesDATE & TIME: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View...
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Pitch Roulette
What goes through an editor’s mind when they read a pitch? What turns them off, and what grabs their interest? One of our most popular...
$10
Susan Orlean
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWednesday, October 13, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean has written with wit and endless curiosity...
$36
Atsuro Riley
online CA, United StatesReads from his highly anticipated collection of poems, Heard-Hoard Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 7:00pm Crowdcast Tickets: Sliding scale ($0-$100) Atsuro Riley reads from Heard-Hoard (University...
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Adam Schiff
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThursday, October 14, 2021 7:30pm Pacific Time Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS Congressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th Congressional District. In his 11th term in the House of...
$49
George Saunders: The Art of Story & Story Structure
online CA, United StatesIn the age of mass infotainment, how do we make our stories on the page shine through a crowded visual world? Join bestselling author and...
$169
The Hollywood Muse Masked Ball
Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesBird and Beckett Bookstore 653 Cheney San Francisco, Ca 415-586-3733 www.birdbeckett.com Poet, Tony Seymour Violinist, India Cooke Piano, Bill Crossman The Hollywood Muse Masked Ball:...
$20.00
Amy Tan & Michael Krasny
The Commons, KQED Headquarters 2601 Mariposa Street, San FranciscoAuthor Amy Tan joins KQED veteran and literature professor Michael Krasny for a conversation on how personal and cultural histories fuse with imagination in her...
$10