In the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco's Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne...
Voz Sin Tinta, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...
Celebrate Valentine's a day early with Red Light Lit. The show is a mashup of poetry, storytelling, and art set to a live score by...
Babar in Exile will be ending in May, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a...
City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland celebrating two...
ookshop welcomes Craig Vachon for a reading and signing of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley, his entertaining tale of a befuddled but highly capable venture capitalist who...
We are excited to have our Legal Advocacy Fundraiser, Sisters in Crime. Featured this year will be four local authors: The moderator Heather Haven has...
Heartbroken? Join us. Single? Join us. Not single? Well let's be real, you live in the Bay Area, so chances are you will be VERY...
You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... Open Mic at The Lost Church - San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk $10 in advance & at...
Robert Hass reads from his new collection, Summer Snow, in Point Richmond. A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In...
Featuring Kim Shuck and the legendary bloodflower. Featuring Jack Hirschman, Rusty Rebar, Wrob Rosenberger, Jack Mellender, James Zealous, and the legendary bloodflower! The second hour...
ENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance, curated by Shannon Prasad, Greg Pond, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels, in their...
Join this extraordinary evening to celebrate and honor one of America’s most important authors who gave voice to of the African American experience through the...
In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics...
Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading, interview, and discussion, featuring Rebecca Radner. Rebecca Radner, a Berkeley poet, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems...
Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell's first full-length collection of poetry, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location...
On February 15, 2020, three renowned poets will join voices to offer and unforgettable evening of poetry in support of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.)...
As a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in...
On February 16th the California Writers Club – Berkeley branch welcomes award-winning poet and activist Jan Steckel as a featured guest of the club. Steckel...
A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain...
About the Authors Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to HAIR, before migrating...
Join us for our semiannual Book Swap at Novel Brewing Co.! How does it work? Bring a book, or a few books. We prefer ones...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Conor Doughertyto read from his new book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America on Monday, February 17th...
In today's America, only a slim majority of eligible voters register to vote and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up...
Come out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and...
Join us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about...
Before ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era...
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She Published by Liveright Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the...