See No Stranger: A Radical Vision for Mending our World
online CA, United StatesThis is the book we have been waiting for. It calls us up and calls us into the hard and necessary work to heal our...
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Virtual Event: Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi
onlineJoin us on Sunday, May 2nd at 1pm PT for an afternoon with Kazuo Ishiguro and Yaa Gyasi in celebration of Ishiguro's new novel, Klara...
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Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
onlineWhen bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our...
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Astra Taylor with Robert Reich
online CA, United StatesSunday, May 2, 2021 1:00pm Pacific Time KQED Broadcast: 05/02/2021, 05/04/2021, 05/05/2021 DONATE Astra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through...
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Bazaar Writers Salon – May 2021
online CA, United StatesKim Addonizio is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton)....
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When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild
online CA, United StatesOrville Schell, Adam Hochschild, Yiyun Li In a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano, eyes closed, playing “Jesu,...
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Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
onlineQuiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: SIDE...
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Allison Cobb discusses her new book, Plastic: An Autobiography
Allison Cobb in conversation about her book, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). "Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history, biology, poetry, and chemistry, gathering centripetal force...
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Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner
aunch party for the new book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America published by University of Chicago Press ---------- This is a virtual...
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Odd Mondays Reading “Arisa White & Friends”
online CA, United StatesCelebrate the publication of Arisa White's new poetry collection, WHO'S YOUR DADDY, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3....
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Interior Chinatown, Tinseltown, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
online CA, United StatesWhen Trevor Noah of The Daily Show asked Charles Yu why he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel, the devastating “parable for outcasts” (Kirkus) Interior Chinatown, in the...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again
FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun, the wonderfully original author of Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi...
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Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
online CA, United StatesWatch & share this talk on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Long Now Live. What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For...
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Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
Fans of Stacey Lee’s wonderful historical fiction rejoice! We are thrilled to announce we are launching Stacey Lee’s powerful and critically acclaimed new novel, Luck...
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Virtual Event: Ian Manuel with Messiah Ramkissoon
online CA, United StatesJoin us on Tuesday, May 4 at 6pm PT when we welcome Ian Manuel for the launch of his book, My Time Will Come: A...
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VIRTUAL: Jonny Sun / Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host Jonny Sun again, for his new book Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations! We are also pleased to announce we have...
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Erica Hunt and Michael Palmer
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. reading from new works Jump The Clock by Erica...
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Virtual Event: Ian Manuel
JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MAY 4 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE WELCOME IAN MANUEL FOR THE LAUNCH OF HIS BOOK, MY TIME WILL COME: A MEMOIR OF CRIME,...
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Epicenter of Girlhood: Carol Edgarian and Vendela Vida on Coming of Age in San Francisco
online CA, United StatesVendela Vida, Cherilyn Parsons, Carol Edgarian From the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to the tech takeover, San Francisco has always been a city in...
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Book Launch for YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with Author Jenny True
Please join us on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of YOU LOOK TIRED: AN EXCRUCIATINGLY HONEST GUIDE TO NEW PARENTHOOD with author...
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Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
online CA, United StatesWednesday, May 5, 2021, 2:00pm via Zoom Ismail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer, a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, and a board member at...
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New Voice Series, featuring Dan Lau, with others tba
onlineRemote access event, free and open to the public Registration link pending, will be announced here With emcee, Carlos Quinteros III The Poetry Center is...
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Thalia Field and Anakana Schofield
Anakana Schofield joins Thalia Field for a conversation about her latest experimental work on animal rights, Personhood (New Directions). This event is presented in conjunction with Community Bookstore in Park...
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Imagine Us, the Swarm Book Launch
online CA, United StatesWednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST via Zoom no fee KSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung's...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Renée Watson, Ways to Grow Love
VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Renée Watson for an online event celebrating Ways to Grow Love, the newest title in her Ramona-esque series...
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Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
online CA, United StatesAnnalee Newitz, Nathaniel Rich, Bonnie Tsui More than 150 years ago, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement:...
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Seismic Salon: Natalie Baszile
onlineBuy Tickets Litquake is excited to welcome Natalie Baszile, author of the New York Times bestseller Queen Sugar (now a series on OWN network) to our Seismic Salon series!...
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Michelle Zauner & Bowen Yang
onlineMichelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music...
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Kate Durbin and Alex Dimitrov
Kate Durbin celebrates her new collection of poetry HOARDERS published by Wave Books This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...
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Lager and Love Can’t Pay the Bills: 2020 Booker Prize Winner Douglas Stuart on his Masterpiece, Shuggie Bain
online CA, United StatesDouglas Stuart enraptured readers worldwide in 2020 when his heart-stopping debut novel, Shuggie Bain, took the world’s top literary award, the Booker Prize. While Stuart may...
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