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  • Cara Black Takes Us to Paris! reading & talk

    La Boulangerie de Noe 3898 24th Street, San Francisco

    Each year, Noe Valley author Cara Black takes a few lucky readers on a real tour of the Paris she writes about in her bestselling...

    Free

  • Sally Wen Mao

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...

  • Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan’s Neighborhoods

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Eleanor Burke, author of A Walker's Sketchbook of San Francisco, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods. About Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods is a...

  • Why There Are Words Presents: Witness

    Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United States

    Join Why There Are Words on March 14, 2019, at Studio 333 in Sausalito and bear witness to a spectacular evening of readings, as six...

    $10

  • Mesha Maren and Randal O’Wain

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

    Mesha Maren discusses her new novel, Sugar Run with Randal O'Wain. Praise for Sugar Run “A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . ....

  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Thurday, February 14, 2019 7:30 PM  10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk $10...

    $10

  • Word for Word Reads “The Widow Dreams”

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

    Members of the Charter Group of Word for Word, a program of Z Space will present a reading of "The Widow Dreams," a narrative of...

    Free

  • Helen Oyeyemi and Stephen Sparks

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

    Helen Oyeyemi discusses her new novel, Gingerbread with Stephen Sparks. About Gingerbread The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a...

  • Lisa Moore Ramee with Sabaa Tahir

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate the launch of Lisa Moore Ramee’s highly anticipated, funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel A Good Kind of Trouble,  about...

  • Helen Oyeyemi – – Gingerbread

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Helen Oyeyemi to discuss Gingerbread, on Saturday, March 16th at 7pm. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen...

  • Alice Pettway

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Alice Pettway is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger (2017), Moth (2019) and Station Lights (forthcoming 2021). Her poetry, nonfiction...

  • Lea Kirk at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library 1550 Oak Street, Alameda

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

    Free

  • Spanish Book Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Patria - Fernando Aramburu Please note: the Spanish Book Group will not be meeting in February. El dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de...

  • Salvatore Scibona

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

    Salvatore Scibona discusses his new novel, The Volunteer. Praise for The Volunteer “Salvatore Scibona is gravely, terminally, a born writer—a high artist and exquisite craftsman. Yes...

  • Shobha Rao

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

    Tuesday March 19, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Shobha Rao’s novel Girls Burn Brighter, longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First...

  • Moira Crone, Rodger Kamenetz, and Ariel Resnikoff

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

    Two New Orleans based writers--poet and dreamworker Rodger Kamenetz and fiction writer Moira Crone--join forces with East Bay native and recent returnee Ariel Resnikoff for...

  • Lloyd Khan, Driftwood Shacks

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails....

  • Paul Beatty

    Hammer Theater Center 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk, San Jose, CA, United States

    TUESDAY March 19, 2019 7PM Hammer Theatre 101 Paseo de San Antonio San José, CA Reading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by Associate...

  • Richard Chiem

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

    Richard Chiem discusses his debut novel, King of Joy. Praise for King of Joy "What a funny, fresh, bittersweet masterpiece—there is no one else in the...

  • Jacob Tobia / Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Jacob Tobia for their first book, Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story. Please join us!   A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to...

  • Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)

    Qulture Collective 1714 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O'Neal and Janae Johnson. Every...

    Free