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  • September 2020

  • Wed 30

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery, Becoming a Good Creature

    September 30, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

  • Wed 30

    Rachel Hollis with Brit Barron – Didn’t See That Coming (Virtual Event)

    September 30, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    I want you to know that what’s been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock, a five year old showing you the...

  • Wed 30

    Virtual Event: francine j. harris

    September 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Wenesday, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection, Here is the Sweet Hand on...

    Free
  • Wed 30

    Virtual Event: francine j. harris

    September 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Wenesday, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection, Here is the Sweet Hand on...

  • Wed 30

    SFPL Live – Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez

    September 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate...

    Free
  • Wed 30

    VIRTUAL: Caitlin Doughty / Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    September 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Caitlin Doughty for the paperback release of her New York Times bestseller Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?! More information to...

    $21
  • October 2020

  • Thu 1

    Reverend Al Sharpton – Rise Up (Virtual Event)

    October 1, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    A rousing call to action for today's turbulent political moment, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Sharpton's unique experience as a politician, television and radio...

  • Thu 1

    Zoetrope Magazine Fall Issue Celebration

    October 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    City Lights celebrates the award winning literary periodical's fall issue. Editor Michael Ray and Managing Editor Manjula Martin are joined by several contributors in an...

  • Thu 1

    Daniel Mendelsohn Acclaimed writer discusses his new book, Three Rings, with local Chris Jennings

    October 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Daniel Mendelsohn is joined in conversation by Chris Jennings to discuss his latest book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (University of Virginia Press)....

  • Fri 2

    Virtual Event: Yamile Saied Méndez

    October 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us on Friday, October 2nd at 6pm PDT, when Yamile Saied Méndez dicusses her YA debut novel, Furia, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please click the...

    Free
  • Fri 2

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #29

    October 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...

  • Sat 3

    Conversations with Authors – P. J. O’Rourke (Virtual Event)

    October 3, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    P. J. O’Rourke‘s latest work, A Cry from the Far Middle, asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch, offering a new collection of...

  • Sun 4

    Conversations with Authors – Bobbie Ann Mason (Virtual Event)

    October 4, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Bobbie Ann Mason‘s new release, Dear Ann, is a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life...

  • Sun 4

    Barbara Kingsolver – How to Fly (Virtual Event)

    October 4, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless...

  • Mon 5

    Virtual Event: Aarti Namdev Shahani

    October 5, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    Join us on Monday, October 5th at 7pm PST when Aarti Namdev Shahani discusses her memoir, Here We Are, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info Please...

    Free
  • Tue 6

    Poised to Soar Helen Macdonald and Camille Dungy discuss Vesper Flights

    October 6, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Bestselling author Helen Macdonald is joined in conversation by Camille T. Dungy to celebrate the publication of Vesper Flights (Grove). This event is presented in...

    $20 – $35
  • Tue 6

    Mike Jung In Conversation with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich –VIRTUALLY!

    October 6, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a virtual conversation between Mike Jung and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich as they discuss Jung's new novel,The Boys in the Back Row. Jung will debut his forthcoming music video opus of absurdity,...

  • Tue 6

    [Virtual Ruby] Book Launch: A Good True Thai by Sunisa Manning

    October 6, 2020 @ 5:30 pm PDT

    Join us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of Ruby member Sunisa Manning's debut novel, A Good True Thai (Epigram Books, September...

    Free
  • Tue 6

    Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present... The Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH, a novel, featuring reading, discussion, and music by author Robert Duncan,...

    Free
  • Tue 6

    VIRTUAL: Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr / A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with the authors of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr. ** Please note ** > ...

  • Tue 6

    Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell | GGP Online Book Club

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, HAMNET. The...

  • Tue 6

    Virtual Event: Robert Duncan and Gary Wilson

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Three Rooms Press and Green Apple Books present the Official West Coast Launch for LOUDMOUTH, a novel, featuring reading, discussion, and music by author Robert Duncan, former...

  • Tue 6

    Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation

    October 6, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music One of today’s most influential and well-respected writers on...

    $15
  • Tue 6

    Colossus:Home Reading

    October 6, 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm PDT

    Paul Corman Roberts  CV Devorah major- special guest Deborah Fruchey Hannah Ingebretsen Halim Madi Peggy Morrison  Abe Becker  Sheryl Bize-Boute Lisa Lim

  • Wed 7

    Katherine May On Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    October 7, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Katherine May joins us from the UK to discuss her new book, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Riverhead Books). “Every bit as...

  • Wed 7

    Contemporary Classics – Call Me Zebra

    October 7, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    Patricia Holt, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, continues her popular book group, “Contemporary Classics.” A book should stand the test of time...

    $20
  • Wed 7

    Virtual Event: Kazim Ali, Gillian Conoley, and Brian Teare

    October 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm PST when Kazim Ali is joined by poets Gillian Conoley and Brian Teare to celebrate his new...

    Free
  • Thu 8

    Fowzia Karimi

    October 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    Fowzia Karimi is a writer, illustrator, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weeklydescribes, her illuminated debut novel Above Us...

    Free
  • Thu 8

    Bathsheba Demuth and Elizabeth Rush Discuss the award-winning environmental history, Floating Coast

    October 8, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Bathsheba Demuth and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Elizabeth Rush join us for a conversation about Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton). This event will...

  • Thu 8

    Patti Smith

    October 8, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

    Bay Area Book Festival in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers present Extraordinary Dreamer: Patti Smith on "Year of the Monkey" Patti Smith in an intimate...

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