MARC BRACKETT presents PERMISSION TO FEEL: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF EMOTIONS TO HELP OUR KIDS, OURSELVES, AND OUR SOCIETY THRIVE Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7:00pm Hillside...
celebrating the release of his new novel Only Americans Burn in Hell published by We've Heard You Like Books 'Brilliantly funny ... the best satire...
A LITERARY SOIREE WITH ELIZABETH STROUT In Conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie Offsite & Ticketed Event at DNA’s Comedy Lab Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at...
Gary Janetti discusses his new book, Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me). Praise for Do You Mind If I Cancel? "Gary...
Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our October book at the September...
Hannu Rajaniemi, Meg Elison, Annalee Newitz discuss their contributions to Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrowwith editor Torie Bosch. About Future Tense Fiction Future Tense Fiction is a...
JOHN LITHGOW In Conversation with Calvin Trillin Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 John Lithgow is an award-winning actor...
Susan Steinberg presents Machine Wednesday, October 30, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Susan Steinberg discusses Machine: a haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning,...
Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly...
Join on First Friday. Book description: SoMa Lurk is a collection of poems and photographs by José Vadi that documents, channels, and writes from the...
Join Sarah Kobrinsky for the celebration of the launch of her new book, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press). Expect a...
Word for Word Presents: “EXACTLY!” THEY SAID… A Festival of Short Stories by California Writers Brought Straight to the Stage SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED November 1-7...
Mikhal Dekel discusses her new book, Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. Praise for Tehran Children “A revelatory history, a saga of flight and welcome, of...
BAPC OPEN POETRY READING Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 201 November 2, December 7 3:00 - 5:00 PM STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St.,...
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel, Holding on to Nothing. Praise for Holding on to Nothing “Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the...
50 Hikes with Kids Reading and Nature Scavenger Hunt Pegasus Books Solano Sunday, November 3, 2pm - 3pm Pegasus families, come join author Wendy Gorton...
discussing his new book Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow Published by The MIT...
Monday, November 4 in the Doolan-Larson Building a literary mixtape, featuring: A.A. Vincent Noah Sanders Anna Allen Chelsea Davis Kelly Alsup Abe Becker Emilie Osborn Genie Cartier...
Raina Telgemeier OFFSITE TICKETED EVENT presents Guts, a true story from the bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts. Telgemeier once again brings a thoughtful, charming, and funny tale about...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30pm Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., 13th Floor, Oakland Poems...
Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...
Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses. Praise for On Swift Horses “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such...
Andre Aciman is a memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name, Aciman’s best-known novel, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel, Find...
Wednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...
Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...
We're excited to read Back in the Frame by Jools Walker for our November meeting. Jools Walker, the writer behind the blog VeloCityGirl, rediscovered biking in her late...
The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary...
Give Us The Word, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom, words of resistance, words to inspire, words that heal. Words that help...
Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered...
In 2002, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, in his freshman year, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007, Hughes left Facebook to...