Silent Book Club SF
The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United StatesBring a book, bring a friend, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All books and all ages...
Free
30 events found.
-
-
Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReadings by Susan Browne, Peter Kline, Emily Pinkerton, and Marco Rafalà Hosted by Brittany Perham Susan Browne’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, Subtropics,...
Free -
Anna Wiener: Uncanny Valley
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesAnna Wiener discusses her new memoir Uncanny Valley. Praise for Uncanny Valley "I've never read anything like Uncanny Valley, which is both a searching bird's-eye study of an...
Free -
Andre Perry / Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from his new book Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now: a collection of essays published by 2 Dollar Radio With luminous insight and...
Free -
Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United StatesThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...
Free -
Bob Perelman, Norman Fischer, James Sherry
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYNorman Fischer is a poet, essayist, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are the serial poems On...
Free -
Crissy Van Meter: Creatures
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCrissy Van Meter discusses her new novel, Creatures. Praise for Creatures “Creatures is the kind of beautiful book that makes you want to lick the salt from...
Free -
Journalism and Politics in the Corn Belt: Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan
Sibley Auditorium University of California, Berkeley, Bechtel Engineering Center, Berkeley, CA, United StatesPulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen in conversation with Michael Pollan Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a family-run newspaper published in Storm...
-
Author Talk: Lincoln Mitchell
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, SF Main Library 100 Larkin St, San FranciscoSan Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell will discuss his new book with Penelope Houston, the singer for the seminal San Francisco punk band The Avengers and...
Free -
Samuel C. Woolley / The Reality Game
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesdiscussing his new book The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth published by Public Affairs Fake news posts and...
Free -
Peggy Orenstein
First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDiscussing Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity. Watch this space for info on ticketing. Wednesday, January 29,...
TBD -
Poet Danez Smith: Homie
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBuy Tickets Co-presented with JCCSF Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power....
$20 -
#we music – a talk and performance series of queer perspectives
ProArts 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza (around the corner from Awaken Café), Oakland, CAPlease join us for the seventh installment of #we, a talk and performance series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
Free of charge and a hat will be passed -
Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105
Rebound Bookstore 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA, United StatesOur first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas, and poet Kat Crawford. Terry Lucas is the author of two full-length...
Free -
Lizzie O’Shea: Future Histories
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesLizzie O'Shea discusses her new book Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology. Praise for Future...
Free -
The Berkeley Slam ft Mycah Miller!
The Starry Plough 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTHE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...
$7 – $10 -
You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes – Santa Rosa
The Lost Church - Santa Rosa 427 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA, United StatesOUR FIRST You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church - Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! $10 in advance &...
$10 -
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race, Resegregation, and Public Art
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive 2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesJeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016, it was named...
-
Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMary Ladd, author of The Wig Diaries, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. The Wig Diaries is...
Free -
Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesin conversation and celebrating the release of Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House published by Graywolf Press In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's...
Free -
Orin & Manjula Martin, Fruit Trees for Every Garden
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United StatesJust in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz, and...
Free -
Literary Speakeasy’s toast to 2020
Martuni's 4 Valencia St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesIt’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau, Vincent Chu, Kevin Dublin, Lauren Ito,...
Free -
The Racket 38 : Flight
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIt's 2020! The future is here! We've got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it's the...
Free -
The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross
CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States? ? ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens;...
$10 -
Poets Michael Gottlieb, Brian Ang, Sara Larsen, and James Sherry
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesMichael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books, most recently Mostly Clearing, from Roof Books, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We...
Free -
InsideStorytime: Convergence
THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San FranciscoInsideStorytime CONVERGENCE, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name), Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories), Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road), Ari Moskowitz, and Munashe Kaseke, will take place at Laundry Gallery,...
$5 -
Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United StatesWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...
$30 -
Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in San Francisco
Brava Theater Center 2781 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesProject VOICE is proud to present a special evening of live performance with two world-renowned spoken word poets: Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye. Showtime :...
$21 – $30 -
Bay Area Poets Coalition
Strawberry Creek Lodge 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
Free -
Carmen Maria Machado with Clara Sherley-Appel
Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United StatesNational Book Award Finalist and winner of the Shirley Jackson award, author of the bestselling Her Body and Other Parties , Carmen Maria Machado’s writing...
$30