Egypt + Holiday Potluck
Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CAHolidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band...
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William Gibson / Agency
Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United StatesTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK Booksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He...
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D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesDS Marriot is a poet and critic, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in...
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Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United StatesWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016, celebrated...
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Marcia Falk & Steven Rood
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandMARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English...
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Poets Laureate on Social Justice
Alibi Bookshop 624 Marin Street, VallejoPoets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice....
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Palestinian Voices: Palestinians Tell Their Stories
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesStories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny's, in partnership with Mothers on the March, is putting together an events...
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#we – a talk and reading series of queer perspectives
E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United StatesPlease join us for the sixth installment of #we, a talk and reading series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two...
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Saturday Night Special presents: Obsession
Nick's Lounge 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, United StatesDon't miss the last SNS of the year! The last (fifth!) Saturday of November, right after Thanksgiving, we're celebrating OBSESSION. Every writer is obsessed with...
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Joan Baranow & Joan Aleshire
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandThis reading will feature a festive book launch for JOAN BARANOW’s new book of poems, In the Next Life. Alicia Suskin Ostriker says, “The lilt...
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Book Talk: Child of the Moon by Jessica Semaan
Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United StatesIn her debut collection, Semaan offers an upfront & moving glimpse into the true nature of healing: an imperfect, nonlinear journey. "Child of the Moon"...
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Enduring Struggle, Enduring Spirits
San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesENDURING STRUGGLE, ENDURING SPIRITS: Remembering Steve Abbott and Karl Tierney on World AIDS Day Location: Latino/Hispanic meeting room, Lower Level, San Francisco Public Library, 100...
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Scarlett Sabet
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United Statesreading from her new collection of poetry Camille Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ, Tatler, Constellation Magazine, The Violet Book and Dazed...
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Bazaar Writers Salon
Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReadings by Daniel Ari, Colby Cotton, Caroline Goodwin, and Ari Moskowitz Hosted by Peter Kline Daniel Ari serves as poet laureate of Richmond, California and...
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Beasts of Bourbon II
The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United StatesBeasts of Bourbon returns with a stellar lineup of kick ass writers poets and musicians to close out the New Year with it's second edition...
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Word for Word presents Alice Sola Kim
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWord for Word presents ALICE SOLA KIM An Off the Page Reading Monday, December 2, 7 PM at Z Below Off the Page staged readings...
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The Racket #37: Holiday
Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe holidays are a tinsel covered monster, roughly entangled in twinkling lights, half-choked on a nutcracker doll. The kind of slavering nog-soaked beast that comes...
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Book Release for STENCILS and Celebration of the Life and Art of David King
3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft 1687 Market Street, San FranciscoThis event had been planned for some time as a launch party for David King's long-overdue monograph featuring his iconic stencil-only designs. Sadly, David passed...
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The Bushwick Book Club Oakland – – There, There
East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, OaklandEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome The Bushwick Book Club Oakland on Sunday, November 3rd, from 6:30-8 pm (doors at 6). **Please Note** This event will take...
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Second Stutter Annual Release Party
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesHosted by Solomon Rino with readings by George Albon, Laura Moriarty, Joseph Lease, and Norma Cole Second Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal...
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Becoming Eve with Abby Chava Stein
CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United StatesAbby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century...
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Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMimi Lok discusses her new book, Last Of Her Name, with Rachel Khong. Praise for Last Of Her Name "Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and...
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Dave Eggers / The Captain and the Glory
Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWhen the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader vows to step forward. Though he has...
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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell: Book Discussion and Author Visit!
The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san francisco"I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, noncommercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for conviviality." —Jenny Odell Join...
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My Life, My Stories / Intergenerational Holiday Party
Red Victorian 1665 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWhen was the last time you went to a party with someone older than 70 who was not your grandma? Let's celebrate 2019 together! Please...
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Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington
City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesCharlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington discussing Charlton D. McIlwain's new book Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to...
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Michael Frank: What is Missing
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesMichael Frank discusses his new novel What Is Missing with Lindsey Crittenden. Praise for What Is Missing "Michael Frank’s masterful and psychologically acute first novel—which leads us with...
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Lunch Poems: Margaret Ross
Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMargaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations appear in The New Republic, The Paris Review, and POETRY. Her honors include...
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Teen Poetry Night
Mill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, United StatesA night for teens recite their original work. Teens from local high schools will perform: “A mic for your poem, your breath, and your soul....
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Peter Kline and Susan Steinberg
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesPeter Kline discusses his new poetry collection Mirrorforms with Susan Steinberg. Praise for Mirrorforms In Mirrorforms, Peter Kline has invented and perfected a new poetic form; in and...
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