These moving and dramatic poems tackle the pain of the opioid addiction in West Virginia, how it affects family, addicts and the community. Brewer manages...
Join us on Thursday, May 31st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Vincent Pizzuto as he reads from his new book Contemplating Christ. The incarnation has made mystics of us...
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Friday, June 1st · 7:00pm Whether stories are hilarious, poignant, suspenseful, or heartwarming, the one thing you can count on is that our next edition...
Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by...
Booksmith hosts Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss, in town to present Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails. Join us! Based...
BAPC OPEN POETRY READING Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018: March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2 3:00 - 5:00 PM STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE...
You're invited to "soirée rosé: the art of happy hour" presented by Author L.B. Lewis to celebrate the pre-release of her third book, One Way...
Come join us Saturday, June 2, when Babylon Salon welcomes novelist and NEA Literature Fellow R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries); novelist and Fulbright Scholar Michael David Lukas...
Monday, June 4, 2018, 7pm First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley Tickets available now! When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and...
City Arts & Lectures presents Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Alexis Madrigal. Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice...
SIN Tales of vice and veniality, peccadillos, trespasses, and indiscretions from the faux pas to the unforgivable Featuring: Nadya Lev ~ Eating Ortolans & Other...
An epileptic Black ballerina and a Powwow dancer meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in 1973 Cold War Berlin. During...
Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is...
Readings by TONYA M. FOSTER LINNEA OGDEN ARISA WHITE Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Doors: 6:30 p.m. Program: 7:00 p.m. Free Entry I.O.U. Institute Of advanced...
This is a book launch and celebration for Alexandra Mattraws new book, small siren. Alexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern...
OFFSITE & TICKETED: Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome back Michael Pollan,...
First reading of the season! This year we are offering a showcase of our own board members in a Cavalcade of Marin Poetry Center Board...
Pamela Druckerman is a journalist and the author of Bringing Up Bébé; and Lust In Translation. She was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and has written for The...
Tuesday, June 5, 7:30 pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. People love hearing jazz...and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles...
The Bindery hosts a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff (Detroit: An American Autopsy), reading from and discussing his new book Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing ....
Hazel White is the author of Vigilance Is No Orchard, just published by Nightboat Books. And also of Peril as Architectural Enrichment, from Kelsey Street...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Charlie LeDuff to the store to discuss his new book, Sh*tshow!: The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great, on Wednesday, June 6th at 7pm. ...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives Edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen from Abrams Image Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), and contributors Thi Bui (The Best We...
Featured readers: Sara McAulay, Amos White, Jon Sindell, Jacqueline Doyle. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic...
Please join us for an evening of relaxing ambient electronic music and dreamy acoustic sounds by Andrew Weathers (TX)/Rootless (LA) / and Oakland's own Forest...
Mariko Tamaki, author of the Caldecott Honor and Eisner Award-winning This One Summer, and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones (Lady Killer) combine forces for Supergirl: Being Super!...
Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, Yossi Klein Halevi directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in his new taut and provocative book,...
Meet authors Rachel Hall, Elizabeth Rosner and Hilary Zaid as they read from their work and discuss how the Holocaust continues to resonate in their...