Murakami has a new book out on 10/9 (preorder link below), and censors in Hong Kong have declared it 'obscene,' so naturally, we're going in. Don't worry...
Multi-media conceptual artist, writer and activist visits City Lights to celebrate the release of his video poem chapbook, A Blazing Grace and the AfroDixieRemixes: The San...
Red Light Lit is a mashup of live music, photography, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featuring musician Josiah Johnson (The Head and...
Man Booker International Prizewinners Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft discuss Flights. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. About Flights Flights is a novel about travel in...
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Join us for a family friendly night of live music, storytelling, art making and community! Come get down with the GRAMMY nominated Oakland based children’s...
Friday, October 5 7:00pm MORE INFO TO COME Event date: Friday, October 5, 2018 - 7:00pm Event address: East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue Oakland, CA 94618
Lezlie Lowe discusses the history and current dilemmas of public bathrooms. Everybody must use them, so how come public restrooms still aren’t universally accessible? And...
Sunday, October 7 3:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday, October 7th at 3pm. Terese Svoboda will...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings by children's books authors Jim Averbeck (Trevor), Julie Downing (Tessa Takes Wing), Christy Hale (Water Land: Land and Water Forms from Aroud the...
Join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Sunday, October 7th at 7:00 p.m. to welcome Terrian Walling and George Gerard as they read from their (with...
East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan, on Monday October 8th at 7pm. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old,...
"Hitler My Neighbor: Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939" is about Edgar Feuchtwanger's unique experience as a young boy, watching Hitler from inside the windows...
The Bindery hosts the launch party for Cary McClelland andSilicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of The Valley, an intimate, eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed...
FREE! Enjoy line breaks during your lunch break, as some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors....
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present hopeful readings from various Queer Authors written during time of oppression
with Mateo Hoke, Taylor Pendergrass, and Mohammed "Mike" Ali celebrating the release of Six By Ten: Stories From Solitary Confinement Edited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass, published by Haymarket...
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the...
The Bindery hosts Lisa Brennan-Jobs for Small Fry, her smart, frank, and captivating coming-of-age memoir. Note: Seating is limited for what will surely be a big night....
Tuesday, October 9, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. In China, capitalist development since the...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. LOCATION: Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575...
Rachel Kramer Bussel (Best Women's Erotica, Sex and Cupcakes) Cassandra Dallett (Collapse) Christine No (The Rumpus, Story Magazine) Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away...
Heather Havrilesky discusses her new essay collection, What If This Were Enough? Praise for What If This Were Enough? "Heather Havrilesky is a singular talent and...
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The Irish Arts & Writers Festival brings together Irish writers and audiences in the historic and intimate town of Los Gatos, CA (located an hour...
When : Thu, October 11, 6:30pm – 9:00pm Description : Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month's readers TBD.
Fellow poets and friends Steven Seidenberg and Jared Stanley, respectively from San Francisco and Reno, Nevada, will read from their work then join in conversation...
reading from his new novel John Woman published by Atlantic Monthly Press Walter Mosely requires no introduction. His award-winning, critically-adored body of work has sold...
Join Why There Are Words on October 11, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration when our WTAW Press authors Sarah Stone and Angela Mitchell will read...
Thursday, October 11, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Katya Cengel discusses Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. “Exiled” traces the story of violence through three...