• Stephen Kessler

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Stephen Kessler joins us on Thursday, August 9th to read from his collection, Garage Elegies. About Garage Elegies In Garage Elegies, Stephen Kessler records with grief and wit, documentary realism and ranging...

  • Katharine Dion, The Dependents

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Katharine Dion, in conversation with Elizabeth McKenzie, for her new book, The Dependents—a wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting...

  • Zines on desire // reading & release party

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    to celebrate our printing and release of read this when hungry, we're hosting a reading and sale !! including other zines on desire: symbiotic sexting...

  • Why There Are Words Sausalito Presents: Back from Vacation

    Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United States

    Join Why There Are Words on August 9, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when the following seven acclaimed authors read from their works to welcome us “Back from Vacation!” Doors...

    $10
  • BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. With Keith in conversation will be The Millions' Lydia Kiesling. Please join...

  • Jason Morris / Levon Helm

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith is proud to host the San Francisco launch for Jason Morris' first full-length collection of poetry, Levon Helm. Reading with Jason is the poet Nicholas James Whittington. Please...

  • The Parliament of Poets, An Epic Poem, at the Shelton Theater

    Shelton Theater 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco

    Shelton Theater - The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. August 10, Friday, 7:30 to 9:00 pm. https://sheltontheater.org/the-parliament-of-poets-an-epic-poem/ The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem In 1977,...

    $15.00 – $20.00
  • Neighborhood Event: PASEO ARTISTICO

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    1-3pm Kid's Craft Table 4pm Peggy Reskin:  Dynamic Speaker and Author of Barefoot Frontrunners; Sex Women and Power 6:30pm Poetry - Per-versions with your host Arturo...

  • Epic Poetry Reading, Frederick Glaysher, at Sacred Grounds

    Sacred Grounds 2095 Hayes, Sacred Grounds

    In 1977, Frederick Glaysher took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting...

    Free
  • Nona Caspers

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Nona Caspers discusses her new novel, The Fifth Woman. Praise for The Fifth Woman “The Fifth Woman is stealthily astonishing from its first line to its last....

  • Big Ideas Reading Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration:...

  • Writers with Drinks

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (A Kind of Freedom) Hannah Pittard (Visible Empire) Cassandra Khaw (A Song for Quiet, Bearly a Lady) Marlee Jane Ward (Welcome to...

    $5 – $20
  • Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Jessamyn Stanley, Every Body Yoga

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    This event will be a part of Bookshop Santa Cruz's Women's Voices effort in August. You can read more about the program here. Bookshop is delighted...

  • Non-Fiction Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Sapiens by Yuval Harari One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens....

  • R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel, The Incendiaries, on Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm. Joining...

  • Paula Saunders, The Distance Home

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. In...

  • Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend The Middle Grade Writers’ Craft Discussion Group meets monthly to discuss children’s novels aimed at a...

  • Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Queer authors Jim Provenzano, Margo Perin, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors

  • Well-RED Reading Series

    Works/San José 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, United States

    features: Joyce E. Young and David Denny open mic follows at Works/San José 365 South Market Street in downtown San José doors open 6:30pm $2 admission,...

    $2
  • BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us!   Growing up as a fat girl,...

  • Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Anil Ananthaswamy discusses Through Two Doors at Once: the intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam...

  • Paul Matthew Maisano

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel, Bindi. Praise for Bindi “Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly...

  • BOOKSMITH: Launch for Vanessa Hua / A River of Stars

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith welcomes Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities) back to the store to launch her debut novel, A River of Stars. Joining her in conversation is Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon....

  • Porch light Storytelling Series: TATTOO TALES

    Contemporary Jewish Museum 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Stories by Shotsie Gorman, TK Moyer, Taemon Omololu, Dominic Riley, Karen Roze, and Penelope Starr.

    $5 – $15
  • InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE

    THE LAUNDRY 3359 26th Street, San Francisco

    will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take), Dickson Lam (Paper Sons), Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics), Lisa Galloway, and Lila Vasudevan. The Thursday September 20th, 7-9pm, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...