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  • Guy Kawasaki

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

    A veritable icon of Silicon Valley, Kawasaki is the author of 14 books, including staples in the entrepreneur's library like The Art of the Start....

  • Morgan Parker

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

    Morgan Parker discusses her new poetry collection Magical Negro. Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral...

  • Quiet Lightning

    The Bar at Hotel Kabuki 1625 Post St, San Francisco, CA

    Submissions are open for our Mar 4 show @ The Bar at Hotel Kabuki! Curated by Christine No + Chad Koch, submissions are open through Feb 6. The Bar at Hotel...

  • Morgan Parker

    Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    Tuesday March 5, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room Morgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma, loneliness, sexuality,...

  • DOOMED

    Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us at Public Works SF for six tales of false starts and inescapable outcomes, cursed objects and ill-fated ideas, poorly planned projects and reckless pursuits...

    $12 – $25

  • LOGIC Turns Two

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

    LOGIC A magazine about technology Host: Jim Fingal, with special guests Megan Rose Dickey, Alexis C. Madrigal, Fred Turner, Ellen Ullman, and Julia Carrie Wong Two years ago, Logic...

  • Guy Kawasaki, Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life

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

    Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life, and the lessons we can draw from them, in his...

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

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

    Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:30 PM  10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church...

    $10

  • Najwa Zebian / Sparks of Phoenix

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special evening with Najwa Zebian, to celebrate her new book, Sparks of Phoenix. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join...

    $18.50

  • Irvine Welsh in conversation with Alan Black

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

      celebrating the release of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh published by Melville House The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act… until they...

  • On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

    Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell, Jan Steckel, Andrew O. Dugas, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway....

  • Elinor Lipman

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Elinor Lipman returns to Mrs. Dalloway's to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, Good Riddance, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously...

  • Tarfia Faizullah

    Morrison Library, UC Berkeley 2000 Carleston Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press, 2018), and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of a VIDA Award, a GLCA New...

  • An Evening with Author Nathan Szajnberg

    Oshman Family JCC, Freidenrich Conference Center, Room F-401 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto

    Author Nathan Szajnberg will discuss his work on three father-son relationships as told by classic texts. He examines their dynamics and underpinnings, as well as...

    $5 – $18

  • Steinbeck Fellows Alumni Night

    THURSDAY March 7, 2019 7PM MLK Library Steinbeck Center, Room 590                             ...

  • Carolyn Burke

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

      celebrating her new book Foursome:Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury published by Alfred Knopf A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship...

  • Dana Frank, The Long Honduran Night

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

    Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in...

  • WHERE EAGLES DARE

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Geoff Dyer hosts commentary and film clips Thursday, March 7, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Co-presented with Telluride Film...

    $29

  • Leland de la Durantaye and Lydia Kiesling

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

    Leland de la Durantaye discusses his new novel, Hannah Versus the Tree with Lydia Kiesling. Praise for Hannah Versus the Tree  “An heiress to the ancient money of...

  • Word Week Celebrates International Women’s Day

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Word Week celebrates International Women's Day, Friday, May 8 with "Thelma & Louise: Back Behind the Wheel." Remember this iconic road movie directed by Ridley...

    Free

  • Noe Valley Authors Festival

    Umpqua Bank Noe Valley 3938 24th Street, San Francisco

    The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay, children's book...

    Free

  • Big Ideas Reading Group

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

    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe?...

  • Writers with Drinks

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

    Saturday, March 9, 2019: Josiah Luis Alderete (The Spanglish Power Hour) Kyle Thomas Smith (Cockloft: Scenes From a Gay Marriage) SevanKeelee Boult (Chile! Hood Stories:...

    $5 – $20

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez, Francesca Bell, and William Brewer, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...