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  • May 2020

  • Fri 29

    Gennifer Choldenko, Avi And Aimee Lucido For Towne Center Books

    May 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    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...

    Free – $100
  • Fri 29

    Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir

    May 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...

  • Fri 29
    Literary Pop!

    Literary Pop!

    May 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Eastwind (virtual) Book Club

    May 30, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...

  • Sat 30
    Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic & Other Earthly Ills

    Poetry in the Time of the Pandemic & Other Earthly Ills

    May 30, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm PDT

    This is an online event on Zoom. After purchasing a ticket, you can access the registration link. More ticketing info below. Purchase tickets on Eventbrite:...

    $6 – $30
  • Sat 30

    Saturday Night Special presents: Escape Online

    May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...

    Free
  • June 2020

  • Mon 1

    AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners

    June 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT
    The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san francisco

    Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...

    Free
  • Tue 2

    VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Melanie Abrams & Andrew Altschul

    June 2, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery, in partnership with Zyzzyva, present Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a weekly salon, Tuesdays at 11am PST. Lockdown Literature is a group of authors with books published during...

  • Tue 2

    Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves

    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...

    Free – $5
  • Tue 2

    Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends

    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...

  • Tue 2

    Sasha Abramsky – Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar

    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...

  • Tue 2

    America’s Most Unusual Marriage: Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein

    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...

    Free
  • Tue 2

    Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System

    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...

  • Tue 2

    DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club

    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...

  • Tue 2
    photo of Hanif Abdurraqib by Marcus Jackson

    Hanif Abdurraqib with Jeff Chang

    June 2, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    TICKETSTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears in the series Special Events Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He...

    $29
  • Wed 3

    Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi

    June 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Ali Araghi in conversation with Laleh Khadivi celebrating Ali Araghi's new novel The Immortals of Tehran published by Melville House --------- This is a virtual...

  • Wed 3

    Zeyn Joukhadar – The Thirty Names of Night

    June 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new...

  • Wed 3

    Eric Goodman: Cuppy and Stew

    June 3, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Eric Goodman discusses his new novel Cuppy and Stew. Praise for Cuppy and Stew "CUPPY AND STEW is completely natural, poignant, and riveting from the...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    We Are the Voices & City Lights Live Present: Alli Warren + Cedar Sigo

    June 4, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    celebrating the release of Alli Warren's new poetry book Little Hill published by City Lights Event co-presented by We Are the Voices This is a virtual...

  • Thu 4

    Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You

    June 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes...

    $1 – $5
  • Thu 4

    VIRTUAL: Meredith Talusan in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan / Fairest: A Memoir

    June 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Meredith Talusan for her new memoir Fairest. She'll be in conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan (Long Black Veil; Good Boy: My Life in...

  • Thu 4

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE.

    June 4, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: YOU. ARE. NOT. ALONE. an online community event for enlivening...

    $10 – $50
  • Thu 4

    Quarantine Storytime // Miah Jeffra

    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our final...

    Free
  • Thu 4
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    The Racket Weekly : A Necessary Distraction

    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

    The Racket Weekly : A NECESSARY DISTRACTION, JUNE 4th, 7PM ZOOM LINK TO COME You know what's good right now? Distraction. We know it looks...

    Free
  • Thu 4

    Author Alex George Discussing THE PARIS HOURS | GGP Online Zoom Chat

    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Please join us on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Alex George, discussing his new historical fiction...

  • Thu 4
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    Eves At The Virtual Beat

    June 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    Bill McKibben, Sy Montgomery, Jennifer Ackerman, Mary Ellen Hannibal For Books On B

    June 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm PDT

    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...

    Free
  • Fri 5

    VIRTUAL: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi in conversation with Eileen Donahoe / Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of An Unconventional Life

    June 5, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book, co-authored with Zara Houshmand, Running Toward Mystery:...

  • Fri 5

    Zoom Forward! #12 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White

    June 5, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward...

  • Fri 5

    Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #12

    June 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....

    Free
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