Tony Platt, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley, discusses his groundbreaking new work, Beyond These Walls: Rethinking...
Family nurse practitioner, nutritional consultant and health educator Azati Sehatti discusses her critical guides The Inner Control Is the True Control: Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes and The Inner Control Is the...
Come celebrate writer Joshua Sperling’s new book, A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger. We love John Berger here at...
Bookshop is delighted to welcome Lyndsay Faye, author of the best-selling staff favorites Jane Steele and The Gods of Gotham, for a reading and signing of her new novel, The...
featuring Roman Muradov (Vanishing Act), Colleen McKee (The Kingdom of Roly-Polys), James Cagney (Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory), Dinika Amaral, and Ralph Paone, will be at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101...
Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped...
When was the last time you got to spend your Friday night with a Member of Congress? Now's your chance! Any not just any member...
East Bay Booksellers welcomes Austin Smith and Dora Malech to read from their books Flyover Countryand Stet. Smith’s Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the...
David St. John has won many significant prizes, including both the Rome Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of...
Writer and youth mental health advocate Jamie Weil shares her powerful novel for young adults, First Break. When your first break from home is your first break with reality...
Tessa Hadley returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to read from her new novel, Late in the Day. "Perceptive, finely wrought....Hadley is a writer of the first order, and...
BJ MILLER In Conversation with Pico Iyer Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Cultural Studies Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Through his writing, teaching,...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Through his writing, teaching, and work with the San Francisco Zen Center and University of California, San Francisco, BJ Miller has spearheaded...
How can you re-ignite your community and create greater participation? Join us for an informal discussion of Nina Simon’s recent book, The Art of Relevance,...
reading from her new novel Sketchtasy from Arsenal Pulp Press Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's...
The Booksmith hosts former SF Weekly music editor Ian S. Port for the Bay Area launch of his first book, The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering...
Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, discusses his compelling new book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. Generation Priced...
Health & wellness coach Michelle Cady discusses her quintessential lifestyle guide, Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition, Fitness. Brimming with practical tips for finding balance...
Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson in conversation celebrating the release of The Houseguest: Fiction by Amparo Dávila by Amparo Dávila translated by Audrey Harris and Matt Gleeson published...
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age It's one of our American ironies: our culture values older women less, just as...
The Bindery hosts "Cat Person" author Kristen Roupenian for her debut story collection, You Know You Want This. Please join us! You Know You Want This brilliantly explores...
MEG WOLITZER In Conversation with Adam Gopnik Thursday, January 24, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: "On Arts" Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets |...
Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 In her many novels, such as The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, and The Wife, Meg Wolitzer brings readers deep into...
The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet, and with it, the values of compassion, peacemaking, nurturance and love of the Earth. There is...
The Young Adult Novelist Convention (YANovCon) is your exclusive connection to some of today's top authors of books for middle and high school youth (and everyone else who appreciates...
Submissions are OPEN for our first 2019 reading: Beginnings Saturday, January 26, 2019, 6 pm Rolling Out 1722 Taraval St. San Francisco To submit work...
Sarah Stone in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg discussing Stone's new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, "a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life...
The wait is over! Please join us for the relaunch of Bazaar Writers Salon in the newly remodeled Bazaar Café with this fantastic lineup of...