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  • September 2020

  • Tue 15

    Virtual Event: American Short Fiction presents Esmé Weijun Wang for Green Apple Books

    September 15, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Join us on Tuesday, September 15 at 4:30pm PDT when American Short Fiction hosts Esmé Weijun Wang as a part of their My Constellation of 8 series benefitting Green Apple...

  • Tue 15

    Story Time with Drew Daywalt

    September 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome back Drew Daywalt, (The Day the Crayons Quit), one of our all-time favorite picture book authors, for a...

  • Tue 15

    Chasten Buttigieg in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer – I Have Something to Tell You (Virtual Event)

    September 15, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    Join us for the first session in our free Fall Leadership Lecture series in which Chasten Buttigieg joins Pulitzer-Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer to talk about his new memoir, I Have...

  • Tue 15

    Kerri Arsenault in conversation with Kurt Andersen

    September 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

           discussing two new books Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains, by Kerri Arsenault published by St. Martins Press Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America:...

  • Tue 15

    Jenna Bush Hager – Everything Beautiful in Its Time (Virtual Event)

    September 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join Today show co-anchor Jenna Bush Hager for a fun night of lively conversation with a special guest! Settle in for an evening of personal stories...

    $42
  • Tue 15

    Get Lit #64 (Music by: TBA)

    September 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT
    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

    Free
  • Wed 16

    Robert Macfarlane: A virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland

    September 16, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Robert Macfarlane joins us for a virtual event to celebrate the paperback release of Underland (W.W. Norton). More details coming soon, so keep an eye on this...

  • Wed 16

    Zach Norris and Rosemarie Day VIRTUALLY

    September 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Rosemarie Day and Zach Norris discuss both of their books, the pandemic's effect on communities of color and lower income communities, public health policy across...

  • Wed 16

    Conversations with Authors – Sue Miller (Virtual Event)

    September 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Sue Miller’s latest book, Monogomy, is an engrossing and haunting novel about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow. Sue is recognized internationally for her elegant and...

  • Wed 16

    Uche Nduka and Sophia Dahlin: Celebrating City Lights Spotlights Series Vol. 19 & 20

    September 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

           reading from Facing You/Spotlight #19, by Uche Nduka Natch/Spotlight #20, by Sophia Dhalin both published by City Lights Books ---- This is a virtual...

  • Thu 17

    Lara Mimosa Montes

    September 17, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

    Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES, a meditation on the Bronx of the 70s and 80s, gentrification, trauma, and loss. Her work has...

    Free
  • Thu 17

    Changing Academia Forever: Black Student Leaders Analyze the Movement They Led

    September 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    The most effective and long-lasting student strike in U.S. history took place at San Francisco State College in 1968. The first Black Student Union, the...

  • Thu 17

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT
    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us on Thursday, September 17th at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly...

    Free
  • Thu 17

    Virtual Event: Carl Phillips and Kimberly Reyes

    September 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Join us on Thursday, September 17 at 6pm PDT when Carl Phillips discusses his latest poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, with Kimberly Reyes on Zoom....

  • Thu 17

    YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: ALL THE FEELS 2020

    September 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm PDT

    You're Going to Die: ALL THE FEELS 2020 an ONLINE Open Mic & Listening Space for communal connection & mortal vulnerability w/Ned Buskirk, the You're...

    Free
  • Thu 17

    Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Ashley Toliver and Jason Bayani, reading and in conversation

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Register to attend Join us for this reading by Poetry Center Book Award winner Ashley Toliver, for her book Spectra (Coffee House Press). She'll be...

    Free
  • Thu 17

    Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Thursday, September 17, 7:00pm featuring Peter Neil Carroll online on Zoom registration link to come Peter Neil Carroll is currently Poetry Moderator of Portside.org. His...

    Free
  • Thu 17

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Jessica Garrison, The Devil’s Harvest

    September 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Join us for an online event with Jessica Garrison, author of The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's...

  • Thu 17

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    September 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT
    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Jingletown Reading Presents Tomás Riley

    September 19, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

    Please Share. Please Invite. Join us as Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates Tomás Riley on Saturday September 19, 2020 from 2-3:30pm PST. See Jingletown...

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Conversations with Authors – Ayad Akhtar (Virtual Event)

    September 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is the profound and provocative story of an immigrant father and his son searching for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with...

  • Sun 20

    Nasty Woman Press Literary Extravaganza: Shatter Some Glass! (Virtual Event)

    September 20, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Meet some of the legendary, bestselling and critically acclaimed authors who donated time and work to Shattering Glass, the first non-profit anthology by non-profit publisher Nasty Woman...

  • Sun 20

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery, Becoming a Good Creature

    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book, Becoming a...

  • Sun 20

    Conversations with Authors – Wade Davis (Virtual Event)

    September 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Wade Davis' inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena: River of Dreams, braids together memoir, history, and journalism to form both a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of...

  • Tue 22

    Poetry as Translation, Translation as Poetry with Ostashevsky

    September 22, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

    Eugene Ostashevsky, a Russian-American poet, will talk about the intersection between poetry and translation in his work, in particular on wordplay in Russian avant-garde poetry...

  • Tue 22

    The Humanities Institute presents Margaret Atwood in conversation with Kate Schatz

    September 22, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Join The Humanities Institute as they present their virtual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Margaret Atwood in conversation with UC Santa Cruz alumna and New...

  • Tue 22

    Dan Beachy-Quick: Poet discusses his new translation, Stone-Garland

    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Poet, essayist, and translator Dan Beachy-Quick joins us for a conversation about his new translation of ancient Greek poetry, Stone-Garland (Milkweed Editions). This event is sponsored by...

  • Tue 22

    VIRTUAL: Lucy Jane Bledsoe in conversation with Christina Quintana and Naomi J. Williams / Lava Falls

    September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to celebrate the paperback edition of her new novel Lava Falls. She'll be in conversation with Christina...

  • Wed 23

    Barry Gifford in conversation with Rob Christopher

    September 23, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    celebrates the release of his new book Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 published by Seven Stories Press In a special presentation, Barry Gifford will be joined...

  • Wed 23

    Obi Kaufmann: The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas

    September 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
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    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with Heyday Books presents a webinar Obi Kaufmann The Forests of California A California Field Atlas with Brian Edwards-Tiekert   EVENTBRITE:...

    $5 – $20.
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