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  • Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club

    Sierra Club National Headquarters 2101 Webster St, 13th Floor, Oakland, CA - California

    Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30pm Jane Hirshfield & Ellery Acres A Benefit Reading for the Sierra Club 2101 Webster St., 13th Floor, Oakland Poems...

    $20

  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...

    Free

  • Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses

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

    Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel, On Swift Horses. Praise for On Swift Horses “Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such...

    Free

  • ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Andre Aciman is a memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name, Aciman’s best-known novel, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel, Find...

    $29

  • Tamim Ansary discusses The Invention of Yesterday

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

    Wednesday, November 6, 730pm Pegasus Books Downtown Tamim Ansary discusses and signs copies of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and...

  • Monica Youn

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently BLACKACRE (2016), which won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America...

  • Women* Bike Book Club: Back in the Frame

    Oakland Public Library - Golden Gate Branch 5606 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, CA

    We're excited to read Back in the Frame by Jools Walker for our November meeting. Jools Walker, the writer behind the blog VeloCityGirl, rediscovered biking in her late...

    Free

  • Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, José Antonio Villarán

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

    The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary...

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    Give Us The Word

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

    Give Us The Word, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom, words of resistance, words to inspire, words that heal. Words that help...

    Free
  • Mary Ladd & Julia Scheeres

    Julia Scheeres hosting Q & A with author Mary Merv Ladd

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Mary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author and journalist Julia Scheeres. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered...

    Free

  • CHRIS HUGHES In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In 2002, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, in his freshman year, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007, Hughes left Facebook to...

    $29
  • flier for Eves at the Beat

    Eves at the Beat: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free

  • Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology

    Perch Coffee House 440 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

    Perch Coffee House and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and...

    Free
  • flier for Shanthi Sekaran, Rachel Howard, and Nathaniel Popkin

    Shanthi Sekaran, Rachel Howard, and Nathaniel Popkin

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

    Parents and Children, Hope and Despair: Three Novels Join Wolfman Books for an evening of fiction with Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy), Rachel Howard (The Risk...

    Free
  • flier for the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival 2019

    SFCohenFest: A Night of Cohen Poetry, Literature, and Music

    Cafe du Nord 2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival - A Celebration of Leonard's Music, Poetry, Insight & Humor - Night #1 Readings, recitations, and reflections on Leonard's...

    $15

  • Esti Skloot: Uprooted

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

    Esti Skloot discusses her new book, Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage. About Uprooted When pregnant Esther--a young, adventurous, British-born Israeli--follows her new husband, Steve, to...

    Free

  • Writers with Drinks

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

    Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It's more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand...

    $5 – $20

  • Heather Christle: The Crying Book

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

    Heather Christle discusses her new book, The Crying Book. Praise for The Crying Book  "In The Crying Book, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of...

    Free
  • flier for Ethel Rohan @ Hinterland West

    The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan

    Mechanics Institute 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom, San Francisco, CA, United States

    As well as being an accomplished novelist -- her 2017 debut, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book -- Ethel Rohan...

    Free
  • SF IN SF

    SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, in conversation with Bay Area writer, editor, and...

    $10

  • Odd Mondays Non-Fiction November: Three Histories

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco, 3957 24th St. Join us...

    Free

  • Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university...

  • Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader

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

    Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry About Threshold Delivery Threshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at...

    Free
  • Happy Endings

    Happy Endings: I Can’t Thank You Enough

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

    Gratitude is the moment. But we're kind of bad at it, right? Like, whenever someone says, "we should go around and say one thing we...

    $10