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  • October 2020

  • Sat 10

    Every Day We Get More Illegal

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year! A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino...

  • Sat 10

    Libra Party Online

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Please register in advance for this party: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN... come celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we'll...

  • Sat 10

    Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson

    October 10, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River, Drop...

  • Sat 10

    Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George – One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)

    October 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of...

  • Sat 10
    Bawdy Storytelling

    Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure

    October 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
    online

    Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• “Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” - Oprah Magazine https://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• This Kinktacular Evening...

    $10 – $69.69
  • Sun 11

    Conversations with Authors – Catherine Grace Katz (Virtual Event)

    October 11, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Catherine Grace Katz's first book, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans — A Story of Love and War, draws on newly accessible sources to...

  • Mon 12

    Virtual Event: Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua

    October 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT
    virtual

    Join us on Monday, October 12 at 5pm PST when Caroline Kim and Vanessa Hua read from their work to celebrate Caroline's new collection, The...

    Free
  • Mon 12

    Conversations with Authors – Michael J. Sandel with Pete Buttigieg (Virtual Event)

    October 12, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Michael J. Sandel’s new book, The Tyranny of Merit, offers an alternative way of thinking about success—a view more attentive to the role of luck in...

  • Mon 12

    More with Less: Short Story Workshop with Hannah Michell

    October 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    The short story accomplishes a feat that feels impossible--it gives us deep insight into characters and emotional resonance in the space of only a few pages. In...

    $245
  • Mon 12

    LOGIC BOOKS FESTIVAL

    October 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    City Lights in conjunction with Gray Area and FSG Originals present three days of discussion exploring the way we interact with technology and how it...

  • Mon 12

    Intro to Fiction: Laying the Foundation with Junse Kim

    October 12, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    "We writers too often need others to tell us that our writing is good," says instructor Junse Kim. "And this is where it all goes...

    $295
  • Tue 13

    Rick Riordan

    October 13, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    GREAT NEWS! Join us to hear Rick Riordan chat about The Tower of Nero, the fifth and final installment in #1 New York Times bestselling...

    $25 – $32
  • Tue 13

    VIRTUAL: An Evening with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country) and Alia Volz (Home Baked)

    October 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Kendra Atleework (Miracle Country: A Memoir) and Alia Volz (Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco) in conversation...

  • Tue 13

    Joe Cottonwood

    October 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Currently, one of Joe Cottonwood’s poems is on display on an 8-foot-tall billboard in the Kew Gardens in London, England. He is widely published around the world. His new book of poetry...

  • Tue 13

    Virtual Happy Hour: Cookbooks & Cocktails

    October 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as our booksellers preview some of this season's great new culinary and cocktail titles. We...

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Tim Hwang / Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

    October 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    The Internet Archive and Booksmith present the virtual launch for Tim Hwang's new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet....

  • Wed 14

    Conversations with Authors – Elizabeth Lesser (Virtual Event)

    October 14, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Elizabeth Lesser’s newest book Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes reveals how humanity has outgrown its origin tales and hero myths, and empowers...

  • Wed 14

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Eddie R. Cole, The Campus Color Line

    October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with author Eddie R. Cole to discuss his new book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and...

  • Wed 14

    Poetry Workshop II with Hollie Hardy

    October 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    You already know how to write a poem, but you want to reinvigorate and nourish your writing practice. If you’re looking for feedback, community, a...

    $375.00
  • Wed 14

    Virtual Event: Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Wedneday, October 14 at 7pm PST when Bett Williams joins us to discuss her new book, The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey, with Juli Delgado Lopera....

  • Wed 14

    Flash Fiction Forum’s Fall Reading Series

    October 14, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us for a night of micro stories and narrative poems - live on Zoom!

  • Thu 15

    Creative Writing: At The Intersections with Taneasha White

    October 15, 2020 @ 12:00 am - 1:00 am PDT

    Creative Writing: At The Intersections focuses on the identities we hold and how they contribute to making up who we are. Sometimes we don't have the...

    $25.00
  • Thu 15

    Writing from Your Life, with Meghan Ward (via Wet Ink), Oct. 15

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 am - 8:00 am PDT

    THURSDAYS, OCT. 15 — NOV. 19  | Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours in 2020 with Writing From Your Life, an asynchronous six-week...

    $375.00
  • Thu 15

    Conversations with Authors – Steph Kent & Logan Smalley (Virtual Event)

    October 15, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Steph Kent and Logan Smalley’s book, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book, is a revival of the yellow-pages directory you remember, but instead of contact information, it is...

  • Thu 15

    VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...

  • Thu 15

    C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN

    October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...

  • Thu 15

    The Memoir of Childhood: Memoir Workshop with Tommy Mouton

    October 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    We understand the sheer power of our respective childhood and adolescent memories. But how can we harness this power to propel a narrative as well as capture...

    $245
  • Thu 15

    San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    online

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...

    Free
  • Thu 15

    Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...

  • Thu 15

    Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom

    October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...

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