This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements,...
Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading, "Murderous Fiction: 3...
Carmen Giménez Smith Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco celebrating the release of Cruel Futures City...
IT'S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Come celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press' Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago, we have been graced with the...
Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker, Nellie was honored by Oakland...
The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel, Shadow Child. Please join us! Shadow Child is a gorgeous novel about...
Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel, How to Set Yourself on Fire. PRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE “How to Set Yourself on Fire is...
Mark Greenside Reads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, a sequel of sorts to I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do), about which the San...
Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station....
Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image, music and silence, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko...
Street Sheet, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the...
radical poesies Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin Curated by Tongo Eisen-Martin Wednesday! May 16th Doors 6:30PM Program7PM FREE
Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms from Feminist Press The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed...
African American poet Claudia Rankine speaks to the human condition in all its many manifestations. A winner of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and author of...
The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and...
Born in New York, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from...
Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . DeMareon Gipson Liz Green Barbara Jane...
Israeli novelist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, author of Waking Lions, talks about her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch. Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions, a...
William Middleton discussing the subject of his new book Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil published by...
Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer's Ross Simonini -- please join us! Please note: this event begins...
Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster St, Oakland, on Thursday May 17th, 7-9 pm, will feature, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass), Townsend Walker (3 Women 4...
Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San José, CA, 95125 (408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361 Free and open to the public. Mike brings out a...
Thursday, May 17 7pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel, It Needs to Look Like We Tried, on Tuesday, May 17th at 7pm. “Todd Robert...
Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman, Lori Ostlund, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly...
Free readings!
Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press About Carry You In Carry You, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child...
The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me,...
Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough, or otherwise—without the sting.”...
YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... is an open mic event, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death...
Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco CA Remember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM, Stories at 8 PM...