Bad Seeds--Presented by Back Pocket A storytelling event about: outliers, social pariahs, failures, and good people doing bad things. Featuring strangers, journalists, artists, and the...
Come Write With Us! Novelists, poets, nonfiction writers, artists, all genre/ genrequeer/ no genre. We'll bring a few writing prompts/ poems to help start you...
Welcome back! I'm excited to see my SNS family following our annual holiday hiatus, for our first reading of 2020. Our January theme (suggested by...
Bring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Readings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...
reading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...
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Norman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...
Crissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper published in Storm...
San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...
discussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...
Discussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity. Watch this space for info on ticketing. Wednesday, January 29,...
Buy Tickets Co-presented with JCCSF Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power....
Please join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...
Lizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...
THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...
OUR FIRST You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church - Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! $10 in advance &...
Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016, it was named...
Mary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
in conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...
Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...
It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau, Vincent Chu, Kevin Dublin, Lauren Ito,...
It's 2020! The future is here! We've got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it's the...
? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens;...
Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books, most recently Mostly Clearing, from Roof Books, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We...
InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name), Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories), Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road), Ari Moskowitz, and Munashe Kaseke, will take place at Laundry Gallery,...
What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...