• Works in Progress Women’s Open Mic (WOMEN-ONLY event)

    Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church 424 Monte Vista, Oakland

    WORKS IN PROGRESS, An Open Mic for Women a WOMEN-ONLY event Featuring singer/songwriter Karen Mullally $7 - $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one...

    $7
  • Faith G. Harper: Unf#ck!

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Saturday, Jun 08, 2019 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location:  In the basement of the store 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Website Moe's welcomes Faith G....

  • Writers with Drinks : Special Latin American Night!

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Saturday, June 8, 2019: Special Latin American Night! Mauro Javier Cardenas (The Revolutionaries Try Again) Rachelle Linda Escamilla (Imaginary Animal) Cristina Rivera Garza (The Taiga...

    $5
  • Bay Area Poetry Marathon

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    * Saturday, June 8 ____ Guest co-curators: Eric Dolan & Lisa Wenzel ____ Readers:  Tongo Eisen-Martin  *  Jennifer Elise Foerster Stacy Johnson  *  Jevohn Newsome  *  Linda Norton Djenanway...

  • Night Shift: A Jewish Cultural Experience

    Town and Country Village El Camino Real & Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto

    Night Shift is a Jewish cultural experience. It's a new take on Shavuot-the holiday that celebrates Jewish culture and literacy. Come gather at Town and...

    $18 – $25
  • Poetry in Chinatown: Greg Pond and Dee Allen. Book Launch

    Clarion Music Performing Arts Center 816 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Poets Greg Pond and Dee Allen. will read from their new publications. They will be joined by trumpeter Greer Rocket. Greg Pond is an American...

    Free
  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • LOTERIA READING SERIES, No. 3: La Luna, El Arbol, El Pino

    Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] 296 Ivy Street, btwn. Gough and Franklin, San Francisco

    INSTITUTE OF (advanced) UNCERTAINTY + McROSKEY 3RD FLOOR FACTORY LOFT  are pleased to present: LOTERIA READING SERIES, No. 3: La Luna, El Arbol, El Pino  J.K. FOWLER MARGUERITE MUNOZ...

    Free
  • Best Breakup Ever Book Launch Party

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Come to a book party that is an experience of celebration for those who are single, happily coupled, heartbroken, recently divorced. Come one come all....

  • New Literary Genre–Senior Adult–launches in Rossmoor

    Stanley Dollar Clubhouse 1015 Rossmoor Parkway, Walnut Creek

    With his 16th novel, "The Third Half of Our Lives," Jon Foyt, age 87, will launch his book and with it a new literary genre...

    Free
  • Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Monday, Jun 10, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  In the basement of the store 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Website Join us for a very special early...

  • Michael Chabon: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

    moe's books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley

    Join us for a very special early Father's Day event. Michael Chabon will read from "Pops", due out soon in paperback. “Magical prose stylist” Michael...

    Free
  • Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square

    Jessie Square 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.

    Free
  • Allan Peterson

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading poetry from This Luminous: New and Selected Poems from Panhandler Books From the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural...

  • Kathryn Scanlan / Aug 9—Fog

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Kathryn Scanlan for her first book,Aug 9—Fog. More to be announced soon, but please save the date and join us! Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan...

  • Ryan Jacobs

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Ryan Jacobs discusses his new book, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive...

  • An evening with Ishmael Reed

    Pro Arts Gallery 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, United States

    Time is a pendulum.    Not a river.    More akin to what goes around comes around.   –Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo   Ishmael Reed...

  • William E. Jones / I’m Open to Anything

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts William E. Jones for his debut novel I'm Open to Anything, out now from We Heard You Like Books. More information to come soon, but...

  • Alix Ohlin

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Alix Ohlin discusses her new novel, Dual Citizens. Praise for Dual Citizens “Ohlin’s story of sisters wraps its tendrils deep as any family. Dual Citizens leads a reader...

  • Erik Davis

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    discussing the subject of his new book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies from MIT Press A study of the spiritual...

  • Why There Are Words Presents: Origins and Destinations

    Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United States

    There’s no better place to begin and end your Thursday evening than with Why There Are Words on June 13, 2019, at Studio 333 in...

    $10
  • Louise Aronson

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Louise Aronson presents Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, an essential, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. "In the latter years there...

  • Ted Chiang and Robin Sloan

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Ted Chiang discusses his new story collection, Exhalation, with Robin Sloan. Praise for Ted Chiang “Ted Chiang’s stories are lean, relentless, and incandescent.”—Colson Whitehead, author...

  • Clearly Meant presents Adam David Miller

    Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Adam David Miller reads his poems, followed by an interview and discussion Adam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a...

    Free
  • Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch reading from Chapter Ten of James Joyce's Ulysses recalling Dublin on June 16, 1904 . Join us for Guinness, Irish soda...