Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen (Virtual Event)
In between World Wars, during the Great Depression, American democracy was threatened by a shadow Nazi party, complete with a self-proclaimed American Hitler and a...
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Berkeley Poetry Festival
The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city's poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas
onlineAn afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...
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Funeral Diva
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...
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Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh
Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...
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Jumpstart Your Memoir Writing! with Kerry Muir
Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools...
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Writing the Big Themes with Erin Rodoni
Love. Loss. Transformation. These themes are so integral to the human experience that writers have returned to them again and again for centuries. But how...
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Creative Writing 101 with Kathy Garlick
“Have you wanted to test the waters of creative writing but don’t know where to begin, or how?" asks instructor Kathy Garlick. “Have you waded...
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On Point: Crafting a Short-Form Point of View Piece with David Jacobson
“Many people are driven to write by the simple human need to express ourselves,” says instructor David Jacobson. “There may be no better way to...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Libby Copeland, The Lost Family
onlineThe Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...
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Conversations with Authors – Claire Messud (Virtual Event)
Claire Messud‘s latest release, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, opens a window on her own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm,...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Before Columbus Foundation 41st Annual American Book Awards
onlineThe Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...
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Eoin Colfer
THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...
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Eastwind Book Club: Minor Feelings
Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...
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VIRTUAL: Omnidawn Fall Book Launch
Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....
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Writing for Power & Resiliency with Thea Matthews
You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. –Maya Angelou “The power of language, of the voice, is not...
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Conversations with Authors – Marilyn Chase (Virtual Event)
Marilyn Chase’s compelling new biography, Everything She Touched, recounts the life of WWII prison camp survivor Ruth Asawa, who broke barriers of race and gender to...
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Colossus: Home Reading
D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello
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Kandinsky: Dramatist, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud
Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the...
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Magical Feminism: An Editorial Discussion
onlineElectric Literature executive director Halimah Marcus talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet, 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Safe as Houses) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic,...
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Book Passage & Left Coast Writers®: America After November 3rd (Virtual Event)
This special event will introduce Left Coast Writers® to the broader community and showcase the many programs that it offers to authors. As part of...
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VIRTUAL: Inter•Col•Lab: A Reading and Film Screening with Valerie Witte, Sarah Rosenthal, and Ayana Yonesaka
Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra
onlineWe will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...
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Sandor Ellix Katz: James Beard Award-winner discusses his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor
Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). This event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit...
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Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the...
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Blogging 101: Publish Your Passion with Allison Landa
Blogging began in earnest the better part of three decades ago, and today there are an estimated 600 million blogs worldwide, with 31 million active...
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VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love
Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...
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Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou
Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...
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Marketing Your Nonfiction Book: Build the Platform, Send the Query, Sign the Deal with Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
Your memoir, hybrid memoir, or nonfiction book is in the works. Maybe you’re halfway through and are wondering how to build your platform or make...
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Try it Again: The Art of Revision, with Audrey Ferber (via Zoom), Oct. 28
WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 28 — DEC. 2 | “My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov Have you “finished” a story or personal essay that you know...
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