• Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university...

  • Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader

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

    Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry About Threshold Delivery Threshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at...

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  • Happy Endings: I Can’t Thank You Enough

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Gratitude is the moment. But we're kind of bad at it, right? Like, whenever someone says, "we should go around and say one thing we...

    $10
  • Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times

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

    Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the...

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  • GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book Gloria Steinem is a writer, speaker, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine, where...

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  • Peter Jan Honigsberg

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Peter Jan Honigsberg launches his new book A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices of Guantánamo, containing firsthand testimonies from Guantánamo Bay, inspiring future generations to never repeat...

  • Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas

    Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United States

    Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 7pm Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas Maurya Simon is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including Speaking in Tongues, a nominee...

  • Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part

    Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley

    Babar in Exile continues it’s November tradition with “Till Death Do We Part”, a reading that celebrates our vociferous dead and the living who go...

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  • Oakland | Ivanna Baranova CONFIRMATION BIAS Launch & Reading

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

    Since November 19th Guatemalan-Slovak poet Ivanna Baranova has been touring across Canada and the US with her debut full-length poetry collection CONFIRMATION BIAS (Metatron Press,...

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  • The Oakland Poetry Slam Ft. L7

    The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United States

    We're back and better than ever! Come join us at our new venue, The Flight Deck, conveniently located in Downtown Oakland near 19th St BART...

    $5 – $10
  • Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart

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

    Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart. Praise for Native Country of the Heart "I love A Native Country of the Heart's forthright blending...

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  • Wendy Taylor Carlisle & Kimi Sugioka

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    WENDY TAYLOR CARLISLE’s new book is The Mercy of Traffic. Tony Hoagland said, “Wendy Carlisle’s poems come out wearing their red shoes and ready to...

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  • MFA in Writing Reading Series – Jamel Brinkley

    USF Fromm Hall - FR 125 - Maraschi Room 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize,...

  • Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo...

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  • David L. Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

    UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

    In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation David L. Eng draws on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore how first- and second-generation...

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  • Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

    Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St Ste 290, Oakland, CA, United States

    The first book based on national survey data on Asian American religious practices, Family Sacrifices is a seminal text on the fastest-growing racial group in...

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  • The Racket #36 : SOUND

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    To celebrate our third year of existence we've decided to tap the senses, to trod upon that which is most audible, to get a bunch...

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  • Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

    Poetry Express 1585 University Ave., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Open Mic + free (except for restaurant purchases) 7pm. 11/18/2019 Joyce E. Young is the author of How it Happens, published by Nomadic Press. Her...

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  • East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

    The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    Join us for the East Bay release of "Disasterama", Alvin Orloff's fantabulous new memoir of '90's SF wild club kid, AIDS-activism, agitprop performance, and homocore...

    Free
  • Andrew McAfee

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Andrew McAfee, an MIT scientist and bestselling author, studies how modern digital technologies are reshaping our world.   Tickets will go on sale one month...

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  • Love in the Time of Piñatas

    Z Below 470 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Written and Performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez Directed by Richard A. Mosqueda You’ve been invited! Join the writer, comedian, and solo performer Baruch Porras Hernandez...

    $25
  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Writing Studio @ CCA 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection, a Barnes &...

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  • Savannah Shange

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

    discussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...

  • Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    AUTHOR Raquel Salas Rivera Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another...