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...
Free
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...
Free
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...
Free
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...
Free
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...
Free
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
Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Adam Hochschild on her new book Orwell’s Roses
3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft 1687 Market Street, San FranciscoSparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing...
One free ticket with purchase of the book
Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady with Morgan Parker & Cameron Awkward-Rich
On October 20th, at 5pm pacific, we’ll welcome poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady (author of Hardheaded Weather) to the ARC virtual stage, along with two...
Free
An Evening with Alicia Garza
VirtualOneof the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza's work has helped shape the discourse on activism and empowerment for...
$20.
Virtual Event: Tiphanie Yanique and Edwidge Danticat
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Thursday, October 21st at 6pm PT when Tiphanie Yanique discusses her novel, Monster in the Middle, with Edwidge Danticat on Zoom! Zoom Registration Praise for Monster...
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Rev. Al Sharpton: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads
VirtualKPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Marcus Books presents: Reverend Al Sharpton + Greg Bridges Rise Up: Confronting a Country at a Crossroads ................................................................................................. "Reverend Sharpton...
$5 – $20.
Chef Bryant Terry
The Commons, KQED Headquarters 2601 Mariposa Street, San FranciscoChef Bryant Terry joins "Check Please! Bay Area" Producer Cecilia Phillips to discuss his new book, Black Food, which explores Black foodways around the U.S....
$15
9th Ave: Teresa K. Miller with Roxane Beth Johnson and Jenny Qi
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Friday, October 22nd at 7pm PT when Teresa K. Miller is joined by fellow poets Roxane Beth Johnson and Jenny Qi to celebrate her collection, Borderline Fortune, at...
Free
Virtual Event: Warren Ellis on Nina Simone’s Gum with Joe Cardamone
Green Apple Books 9th Avenue 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin us on Saturday, October 23rd at 12pm PT when Warren Ellis joins us to discuss his book, Nina Simone's Gum, with Joe Cardamone on Zoom! THIS IS A TICKETED...
$32.00
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
virtualLavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to the bright lights...
Free; donations appreciated
Lessons on Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
VirtualWe all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from underneath us and what we relied on as steady...
$10.
Nikki Giovanni: Make Me Rain
VirtualPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Marcus Books Hosted by Nina Serrano Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened, and captivated generations of readers. She...
$5 – $20.