Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything was...
Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie...
Monday, September 24, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Fifty years later, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge...
discussing the subject of We Build the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond by Eileen Truax...
Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...
Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels, Fox and American Fictionary. Praise for Fox "Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent, in part because within...
Tuesday, September 25, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Solano Kathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection, Riding Waves. Kathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of...
Afternoon Craft Conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928...
Sara Nicholson READINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
We That Are Young published by Alfred Knopf A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India: the tale of a battle for power...
The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...
"Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff" (Atria Books) by two-time Academy Award(R)-winning actor, writer and director Sean Penn, is Mr. Penn's first novel. The darkly...
The summer's over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let's gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on...
City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present Léonora Miano celebrating the release of Season...
The Poetry Center's Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker, who collectively organize Antena, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,...
Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel, Every Other Weekend. Please join us! The year is 1988, and America is full of broken homes. The...
Christian Kracht reads from his new novel, The Dead. Praise for Christian Kracht “Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl...
We're incredibly excited to be hosting the author, Léonora Miano, in collaboration with the Cultural Services French Embassy in the US. We'll have more info about...
NEXT THERE: THERE 24 – Friday, September 28, 2018, with a great lineup of writers and musicians to be announced. See you in the fall! THERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a...
Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month's show features TBD and TBD! Music...
KSW Presents "All This Wreckage, In Your Own Language," a reading featuring two debut novelists-Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart, and Ingrid...
Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on...
SALLY FIELD Friday, September 28, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Sally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring...
Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic, dicusses her new memoir, Night Moves. Praise for Night Moves "Jessica Hopper's Night...
IN ASSOCIATION WITH 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE SAT. & SUN. SEPT. 29TH & 30TH, 1-6PM Two days of poetry and music, produced by Fred Dodsworth, Paul...
FRAN LEBOWITZ In Conversation with Lawrence Rinder Saturday, September 29, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 In a cultural landscape filled with...
Details soon! Featured readers - Musical guests: With your host Bloodflower
Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____ Readers: Info To Come Doors open at 6:30pm. Readings begin at 7:00pm sharp.
Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Best Reporting, Harvard's Goldsmith Prize for...
Setting is a device used in writing fiction. A particular setting can be exotic to one reader and prosaic to another. Odd Mondays has asked...