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  • January 2021
  • Wed 13
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    January 13, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown

    Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Story Time with Joanna Ho

    This is an online event Join us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Robert Jones Jr. – The Prophets (Virtual Event)

    Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He'll be in conversation...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Women Lit presents Ann Patchett

    We are partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival to present a virtual event with bestselling author (and bookstore owner) Ann Patchett. Visit the Book...

    $15 – $30
  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Madeleine Watts

    Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel, The Inland Sea (Catapult). "Full of heart and disquiet, astute and precise, almost savage in its eloquence, illuminated about...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Mary Ziegler with Becca Andrews / Abortion and the Law in America: Roe V. Wade to the Present

    Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present....

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Rameshwar Das (Virtual Event)

    Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass was a prominent Harvard psychology professor who partnered with Timothy Leary in psychedelic research, and later traveled to India and met his...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Kevin Begos in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    discussing Tasting the Past: One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines. "Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt in Conversation–virtually

    discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape. Every Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same...

  • Fri 15
    January 15, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: George Saunders and Tobias Wolff

    bout the Event Part hilarious prophet, part tender interpreter of the human condition, Booker Prize winner George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has been called...

    $40
  • Sat 16
    January 16, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

    Kate Messner on Instagram Live IGTV

    reading her timely book The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents, an inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and...

  • Sat 16
    January 16, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Michelle Gallen and Crissy Van Meter

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    JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

    Free
  • Sat 16
    January 16, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Michelle Gallen and Crissy Van Meter

    JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...

  • Sun 17
    January 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Mahmood Mamdani in conversation with Gil Anidjar

    discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)...

  • Sun 17
    January 17, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Learn Deep Revision Techniques

    Virtual

    Dr. Laurel Yourke will speak on the heart of revision-it's not just polishing or substituting one word for another. Instead, look at revision as viewing...

    $5 – $10
  • Sun 17
    January 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond with Whitney Leigh Morris – What’s Your Story? (Virtual Event)

    Transformational questions for personal and collective change. In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 9:00 am - March 9, 2021 @ 11:00 am PST

    Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes

    Virtual

    Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...

    Free
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Paraic O’Donnell with Helen MacDonald – The House on Vesper Sands (Virtual Event)

    London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

    Steven Kotler – The Art of Impossible (Virtual Event)

    Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This is Now: Simon Winchester

    This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This is Now: Simon Winchester

    This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST

    Panel: Black Crime Writers – Celebrating the Past, Looking Toward the Future

    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    Authors, S.A. Cosby, Kellye Garrett, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of...

    Free
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters

    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event Floaters MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has...

    $1 – $20
  • Tue 19
    0119 City We Became@2x-8
    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club

    The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 19 @ 7 PM PST Please join us on Tuesday,...

  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series

    SOMArts 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    LUSH: A SOMArts Series launches on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The first of three virtual programs, this event features readings, a panel discussion, and Q&A with Juli...

    $5 – $20
  • Tue 19
    January 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K....

  • Wed 20
    January 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine

    Join us on Wednesday, January 20th at 6pm PT when James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine read from their work to celebrate Siegel's...

    Free
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