Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present....
Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass was a prominent Harvard psychology professor who partnered with Timothy Leary in psychedelic research, and later traveled to India and met his...
discussing Tasting the Past: One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines. "Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins...
discussing their new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape. Every Bay Area gardener needs this book written and photographed by the same...
bout the Event Part hilarious prophet, part tender interpreter of the human condition, Booker Prize winner George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has been called...
reading her timely book The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America's Presidents, an inspiring and informative book for kids about the past and...
JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...
JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 12PM PT WHEN MICHELLE GALLEN DISCUSSES HER NOVEL, BIG GIRL, SMALL TOWN, WITH CRISSY VAN METER ON ZOOM! Zoom Login...
discussing Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani published by Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press)...
Dr. Laurel Yourke will speak on the heart of revision-it's not just polishing or substituting one word for another. Instead, look at revision as viewing...
Transformational questions for personal and collective change. In this time of global reckoning, revolution, and reinvention, authors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond invite you to...
Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020, Rise & Shine...
London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world...
Learn about The Art of Impossible from bestselling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler as he decodes the secrets of those elite performers—athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs...
This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...
This event is online. Webinar access comes with one copy of Land. ----- The story of the world is the story of land: stories of...
Authors, S.A. Cosby, Kellye Garrett, Gar Anthony Haywood and Cheryl A. Head discuss the history of Black writers of crime fiction and the future of...
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event Floaters MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has...
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 19 @ 7 PM PST Please join us on Tuesday,...
LUSH: A SOMArts Series launches on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. The first of three virtual programs, this event features readings, a panel discussion, and Q&A with Juli...
Please join us on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of The City We Became by N.K....
Join us on Wednesday, January 20th at 6pm PT when James J. Siegel, Ben Kline, and Caroline Earleywine read from their work to celebrate Siegel's...
JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 AT 6PM PT WHEN JAMES J. SIEGEL, BEN KLINE, AND CAROLINE EARLEYWINE READ FROM THEIR WORK TO CELEBRATE SIEGEL'S LATEST COLLECTION, THE GOD OF...
Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? In this 8-week craft workshop, you will learn structured techniques...
Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel, WIDER THAN THE SKY, with author...
discussing (with wine) Lethem's latest novel The Arrest, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car....
VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...
Join us on Friday, January 22 at 6pm PT when Rebecca Fishow discusses her latest collection, The Trouble with Language, with Emily Schultz on Zoom!...
JOIN US ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN REBECCA FISHOW DISCUSSES HER LATEST COLLECTION, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, WITH EMILY SCHULTZ ON ZOOM! Zoom Login Info Please...
The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers, poets, artists,...