Featuring Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize winning author of All the Light We Cannot See and The Shell Collector; R.O. Kwon, bestselling author of The Incendiaries; and Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning...
Booksmith and Quiet Lightning present The Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett for his only San Francisco/Bay Area. He will be reading from and discussing his memoir, Hollywood Park. Please note:...
My Shadow is My Skin (University of Texas Press) is a new nonfiction anthology exploring the meaning of being Iranian-American. The collection brings together thirty-two...
A special on-line reading featuring Connie Post and Kelly Grace Thomas open mic to follow! REGISTER HERE FOR LINK (Free) This is a special event...
.Interactive reading on Creativity and Activism by 30 Bay Area writers of color and allies. Health care providers, educators, and community activists will share prose and poetry...
Bazaar Writers Salon goes virtual! Sunday, May 3rd, 6:00 p.m. Readings by Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Jennifer Lewis, and Kendra Tanacea Hosted by Peter Kline Full details...
Moderated by Sunita Puri, MD Program will air Sunday May 3rd, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a time where...
discussing the subject of her new book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another from The MIT Press In the bestselling...
a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. join our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a...
Virtual Quiet Lightning, Monday May 4, 2020 We’ll be streaming at this link. Doors at 7pm. Readings at 7:15pm. Other ways to connect: Meeting ID:...
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she...
Editors (and Moe's workers) Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill introduce the contributors to Akashic's latest city noir anthology. Celebrate Berkeley on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley brings...
Moderated by Laurie King Program will air Tuesday May 5th, 7:00 PM PST Registration (for free) to watch this program’s debut “Suspense is like a woman,”...
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from...
Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel Death in Her Hands. Praise for Death in Her Hands “When it comes to evoking the jagged edge of contemporary...
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St. Marys...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Online https://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vp0qde6upz8sb00VbumXa71hDPDicEk64A DESCRIPTION: THEN WE CAME TO THE END Whether your...
Book Club Discussion of Alfred Camus The Plague featuring Emily St John Mandel, Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan Sponsored by Alfred Knopf and City Lights **This is a virtual event that...
This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other...
Join us on Zoom on Wednesday, May 6 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen's favorite books of the...
We've partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF '16–'19). Join Tanea Lunsford...
celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection Sansei and Sensibility published by Coffee House Press Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's...
This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This free event will take place at...
New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel, Death In Her Hands. From one of our most...
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. LOCATION: Soda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94575 View a...
Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir, Stray. About Stray From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and...
One of the year’s liveliest events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well...
My dear friends and readers, I am inviting you all to the launch of my book Only the River. I hope you can attend. I...
discussing Peniel E. Joseph's new book The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. published by Basic...