Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse How are individuals and groups racially classified, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories,...
GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection, The Lumberjack's Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! “Serious art does not need to be weighty or...
reads from Daughter of Moloka'i, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka'i.
It was a simple test. Yet, the course of her life changed forever. Dani Shapiro, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass, Devotion, and...
Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...
Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." -Muriel Rukeyser Reading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. Join us...
reading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 pm The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University I eat crumbs out of the baby's neck I'm glad...
Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez, moderated by Lauren Schiller. Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7 p.m. The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco,...
Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...
Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped...
Oakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...
George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...
THERE 28 will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...
Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore...
James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...
Saturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM, Stories at 7:00 PM (NOTE: This is...
Saturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 9:30 PM, Stories at 10:00 PM (NOTE: This is...
More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with acclaimed FiveThirtyEight science writer Christie Aschwanden for her new book Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from...
Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas
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...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 With his stunning debut novel, There There, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and...
DESTINY BEYOND EARTH: INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL & IMMORTALITY WITH DR. MICHIO KAKU In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal Monday, April 8, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Conversations...
Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...
celebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...
Tuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...
The Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction,...