• Happy Endings: Trust, Betrayal, Cheetos

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

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers...

    $10
  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer

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

    MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...

  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF

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

    MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...

    Free
  • Joyce Carol Oates

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from here new novel Hazards of Time Travel published by Harper Collins An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints...

  • Sisters in Crime

    Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church 728 Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale

    You are invited to join Sunnyvale-Cupertino Branch for an interesting panel discussion by "Sisters in Crime." Refreshments will be served. Books will be available to...

    $15
  • Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

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

    Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. Praise for Wild Geese Sorrow “Jeffrey Thomas...

    Free
  • Reimagining Labor Law

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reimagining Labor Law Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Transformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions...

    $10
  • Reimagining Labor Law

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Transformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges...

    $10
  • Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical, thought-provoking contemporary...

    Free
  • Freud’s Bar – – All the Jazz w/Henry Markman, MD

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

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud's Bar on Wednesday, February 13th at 6:30pm. This week Henry Markmanwill present All That Jazz: The Therapy...

  • Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics

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

    The New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl explores the lives of four siblings in this ambitious and absorbing novel in the vein of Commonwealth and The Interestings. “Tara Conklin...

    Free
  • Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya

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

    We’re really excited to host two amazing, accomplished, dynamic writers and thinkers, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC where...

  • Reema Zaman

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

    Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir, I Am Yours. Praise for I Am Yours “Tender, fierce, compassionate, and wise . . . a moving story about...

    Free
  • MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Michael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton, California, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city...

    $29
  • Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House

    Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present Barry Gifford in a talk and film screening celebrating the release of Southern Nights, Night People, Arise...

  • San Francisco Writers Conference

    Hyatt Regency San Francisco 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Feb 14-18, Thursday: 12 noon-9:30pm | Friday: 6:45am-9pm | Saturday: 7am-9pm | Sunday: 6:45am-4pm | Monday: 9am-5pm "San Francisco Writers Conference is a four-day event...

    $850
  • Poem Jam

    San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA

    Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, James Cagney, and Christine No for a special Valentine's Day poetry jam. The Main...

  • Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

        reading from new work Keith Scribner reads from Old Newgate Road published by Alfred Knopf Tom Barbash reads from The Dakota Winters published by Ecco...

  • Why There Are Words Presents: Somewhere Else

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

    Ever feel like being somewhere else? There’s no better place to be than with Why There Are Words on February 14, 2019, at Studio 333...

    $10
  • YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES…

    The Lost Church 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk $10 in advance and at the door. Tickets: https://sforce.co/2CWB45Q Venue: The Lost...

    $10
  • Robin LaFevers with Sabaa Tahir

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

    Robin LaFevers’ wonderful His Fair Assassins series tells the story of assassin nuns in Medieval France and is a store favorite. We are thrilled to...

    Free