This month, Shipwreck tries not to die of dysentery when we take it way back to Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Little House on the Prairie (et al.).
Discussing her new book Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones.
“Lucky Seven + One to Grow On” will feature the following eight acclaimed authors who’ve appeared at WTAW over the past seven years.
A reading with Julia Levine and C. Dale Young.
Part of the FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. .
Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Readings + Music.
Part of the Last Word Reading Series.
Join Macavity Award-winning author Terry Shames for a Launch Party celebrating her latest work, An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock. Terry will be in conversation with Susan Shea.
Presenters include Juan Felipe Herrera, Jonathan Franzen; New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, acclaimed poet and former United States Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Ishmael Reed, Jane Hirshfield.
Join Radar for our signature program, Drag Queen Story Hour! Welcome to people of all ages, but designed especially for kids. Come listen to children’s stories read by Panda Dulce! Then stay and get your face painted and eat some cookies.
A Moth-style evening of revelatory memoir.
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
This event is a benefit for International Institute of the Bay Area, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Transgender Law Center.
Camille Paglia discusses her work, hosted by City Arts & Lectures.
Books Inc. at Mountain View hosts a launch party for Susan Alice Bickford's new novel, A Short Time To Die.
Ian Rankin presents his newest novel Rather Be the Devil.
An Evening of Burmese & Burmese American Poets & Writers.
Let's start the hopefully far superior year of 2017 by indulging in the writing and reading of some grade-A food writers.
Lida Parent and Geddes Fielder read, followed by an open mic
Meredith will be in conversation with Michelle Richmond, bestselling author of the novel Golden State.
Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry writes thrillers that move “almost faster than a speeding bullet” (Wall Street Journal). The Old Man is his latest whip-smart standalone novel.
Queer Words presents four poets reading new poetry and prose.
Discussing his new memoir Sirens.
Drawing on 3,000 years of history and his personal experience, Charles Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective, and connected communities.
Join Sara for a special night in which she will do a reading dedicated to the memory of her father on the anniversary of his passing.
Family therapist and author Holly Brown shares her new psychological thriller, This Is Not Over.
An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit.
Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English, Savage Theories.
Come and join the chorus! Admission free.