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  • October Lyrics & Dirges!

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman.

  • Sarah Griffin

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Sarah Griffin: Spare and Found Parts Launch Party!

  • The Poetry Brothel: A Masquerade

    Slide 430 Mason St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    The Poetry Brothel is a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello.

    $25 – $75

  • Rod Smith + Lee Ann Brown

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Poets Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown, visiting respectively from Washington, D.C. and New York City, read their work and converse with the audience.

  • Emma Donoghue

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Admission price includes a signed copy of The Wonder.

    $30

  • Vinod Narayan + Open Mic

    Willow Glen Library 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose , CA, United States

    Free and open to the public.

  • Bookswap 2.0 w/ Ruth Galm

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out!

    $10

  • Pedestrian Prose #1 w/ Purnell + Zink

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    For our inaugural reading, we're proud to feature Laura Zink and Brontez Purnell.

  • Michelle Bitting + Ewa Chrusciel

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    Los Angeles poet Michelle Bitting, The Couple Who Fell to Earth, and poet in Polish and English Ewa Chrusciel, Contraband of Hoopoe.

    $3 – $5

  • DNA Hymn East Bay Book Launch

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    DNA Hymn's East Bay Book Launch w/ Maya Chinchilla, Tha Hood AlKemist, Crystal Azul Barr & Vanessa Rochelle Lewis!

  • Ari Banias + Margaret Ross

    DIESEL, A Bookstore 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    DIESEL, A Bookstore welcomes Ari Banias and Margaret Ross to the store on Friday, October 21st at 7pm as part of the FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series.

  • Book Party for HOUSE A

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

    There will be a reading, a projector with images, some form of favorite childhood snacks, adult drinks, and of course books for sale!

  • Gerald Fleming

    Book Passage Marin 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Gerald Fleming’s new book of prose poems (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn)—titled, simply, One, pushes the tensile strength of the English language.

  • Roastmeal: The Rage Issue Release

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    *Also* this might be our last issue ever, so we extra-hope you'll come hang out and get mad AF with a bunch of wonderful people who appreciate all your rage and feelings!

  • André Alexis

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

    André Alexis, winner of the prestigious Giller Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs, discusses his new novel, The Hidden Keys with Karen Joy Fowler.

  • Michael Krasny + Calvin Trillin

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In Conversation with Steven Winn.

    $29

  • Elliot Weinberger + Stephen Sparks

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

    Green Apple's Stephen Sparks talks with essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger about his new collection, The Ghosts of Birds.

  • Bay Area Generations

    Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Readings + a full bar!

    $7 – $10

  • Helen Klonaris + Amir Rabiyah

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A reading to celebrate the new anthology Writing Down the Walls: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, edited by Klonaris and Rabiyah, co-sponsored by Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.

  • Robert Olen Butler

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler shares his powerful new novel, Perfume River.

  • Gina Berriault Award Reading ft. Suzanne Rivecca

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca.

  • Literary Pop October Special!

    Doc's Lab 124 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Tickets are $9 in advance or $12 at the door!

    $9 – $12

  • Jonathan Lethem

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler's Anatomy.

  • Ibram X. Kendi

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

    Ibram X. Kendi discusses his National Book Award-nominated book, Stamped from the Beginning.