“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” — Joan Didion Susan Choi is the award-winning author of five...
discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...
Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...
During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...
Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...
Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...
Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...
Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...
Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...
This is an online event on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket, you can access the registration link. More ticketing info below. Purchase tickets on Eventbrite:...
SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...
Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...
Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...
Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...
Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...
Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...
Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...
So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...
Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...
TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Special Events Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He...
Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi celebrating Ali Araghi's new novel The Immortals of Tehran published by Melville House --------- This is a virtual...
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new...
Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. Praise for Cuppy and Stew "CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the...
celebrating the release of Alli Warren's new poetry book Little Hill published by City Lights Event co-presented by We Are the Voices This is a virtual...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes...
Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She'll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in...
Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. an online community event for enlivening...
During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our final...