Happy Endings: I Can’t Thank You Enough
Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesGratitude 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...
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Sarah Henry hosting Q&A and book-signing with author Mary Ladd
Rakestraw Books 3 Railroad Avenue, DanvilleMary Ladd will co-host a book-signing and Q&A with author Sarah Henry. The Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book, delivered with bold...
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10th Anniversary Party for Wherever There Is A Fight with co-authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesWe had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago, and this history of the...
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Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMatt 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 StatesOrchestra 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 StatesPeter 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...
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Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas
Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United StatesThursday, 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...
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The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee, reading and in conversation
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesThursday, November 14 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm The Poetry Center, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University The Poetry Center Book Award Reading, co-sponsored this year by...
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Babar in Exile #21: Till Death Do We Part
Himalayan Flavors 1585 University Avenue, BerkeleyBabar 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 StatesSince 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 StatesWe'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...
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Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCherríe 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, BERKELEYWENDY 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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You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes at TLC
The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesYou're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... Open Mic at The Lost Church - San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk $10 in advance & at...
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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 StatesJamel 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,...
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Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesDespite 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 StatesIn 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 StatesThe 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 StatesTo 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 StatesOpen 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 StatesJoin 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...
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Andrew McAfee
SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAndrew 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 StatesWritten 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...
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Writing Studio @ CCA 195 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIngrid 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 Statesdiscussing the subject of her new book Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco from Duke University Press San Francisco is the endgame...
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FeaturedBig Familia Book Launch
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandI am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. It's...
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Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAUTHOR 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...
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Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesLiska Jacobs discusses her new novel, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. About The Worst Kind of Want A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires...
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Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEYCO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST MARILYN CHIN's new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said,...
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Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United StatesWednesday, November 20, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning...