Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! Mortal Trash by Kim Addonizio Passionate and...
presents Vigilance is No Orchard, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.
ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING Storytelling is about building a connection. So is sex. For the past 11 years, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex, kink,...
Friday, June 22nd · 7:00pm Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, has traveled across...
Join us at 23rd and Telegraph in Oakland for a six-slot open mic alongside two amazing features. This month's show features Daphne Gottlieb and Sage...
Julian Francis Park lives in Oakland and writes poems, narrative, literary criticism, and social theory. Through the Bay Area Public School Julian facilitates a writing...
Poetry with Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, Brittany Perham Friday, June 22, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Pegasus welcomes renowned poets Kim Addonizio, Donna Masini, and Brittany Perham, for...
Presents Sprig the Rescue Pig, nspired by the true story of a feisty swine who escapes a delivery truck and ends up at an animal sanctuary, this...
SAT. JUNE 23RD, 4-6PM TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY Join us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady, eldest daughter of Neal and...
Rodney Koeneke, Dodie Bellamy, and Ross Simonini Hosted by Kevin Killian
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome back our friends from Poetry Flash on Sunday, June 24th at 3pm. The month's feature poets are Kim Addonizio,...
Goethe-Institut San Francisco | ART-Lounge | 530 Bush Street (entrance street level) | San Francisco, California Join us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut...
Jonathan White, Tides Monday, June 25, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes marine conservationist Jonathan White for a reading and signing of his new book, Tides: The...
Poetry Express presents a reading with Sandra Anfang, Looking Glass Heart, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00
The Bindery is delighted to host Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley for Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip. Please join us! The Grateful Dead...
Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco discussing Glen David...
Please join us on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. Praise...
Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group...
Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including his most recent collection, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology...
June 26, 2018, 7:30pm Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley Tickets available now! For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most...
Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Dan Pfeiffer is Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast Pod Save America. In his forthcoming book, Yes We...
June 27 (wednesday) in the evening time from 6:30-8pm The Event Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays Come to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text...
Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four East Bay queer zine creators: Erin Stokes, Lawrence Lindell, Maira, and Nia King
Who Will Speak For America? Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco with Veronica Scott Esposito, Charlie Jane Anders, and Craig...
The beloved spiritual teacher builds on the message of his enduring New York Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements with this profound guide that takes us...
Booksmith hosts an evening with the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, Porochista Khakpour for her new book Sick: A Memoir. Porochista will be in conversation...
appearing with Jack Hirschman and Jessica Loos Works honors the longtime Long Shot magazine, credo of “Writing from the Real World.” This collection of poems traverses a course...
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Michael Isikoff and David Corn—"Two of the best and most accomplished investigative reporters of their generation... superpower reporting team" (Rachel Maddow)—for a...
Local author Yang Huang’s new novel My Old Faithful, a Juniper Prize winner, depict the lives of one family over thirty years in China and the...