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  • January 2021
  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know

    Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

    Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: New Poems published by Wesleyan University Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads, featuring Benjamin Garcia, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi

    Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A...

  • Thu 28
    January 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    Jerald Walker & Kevin Cartwright: Zoom Event: How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Jerald Walker and Kevin Cartwright: A Zoom Event How to Make a Slave Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction...

    $5 – $20
  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV

    reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Virtual Class: Art History with Kerrin Meis – The Aesthetic Movement: The Cult of Beauty Revisited (via Zoom)

    In their operetta Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan skewered the Aesthetic movement—the anti-industrial stance adopted by a talented and opinionated group of artists, poets, and architects that had...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards – Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)

    Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her...

  • Sat 30
    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Sherry L. Smith with Peter Coyote (Virtual Event)

    Sherry L. Smith's Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of a radical romance at the dawn of the twentieth century. The opening years of the twentieth century...

  • February 2021
  • Tue 2
    February 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Annalee Newitz and Charles C. Mann

    JOIN US ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT 6PM PT WHEN ANNALEE NEWITZ IS JOINED BY CHARLES C. MANN FOR THE LAUNCH OF THEIR LATEST BOOK, FOUR LOST CITIES:...

  • Tue 2
    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Gretel Ehrlich, Unsolaced

    Gretel Ehrlich, author of the enduring classic The Solace of Open Spaces, will share her new book Unsolaced—a wondrous meditation on how water, light, wind, mountain, bird,...

  • Tue 2
    February 2, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel...

  • Wed 3
    February 3, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Anna North and Esmé Weijun Wang

    online

    Join us on Wednesday, February 3rd at 6pm PT when Anna North is joined by Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her latest novel, Outlawed, on...

    Free
  • Thu 4
    Kiki Petrosino
    February 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

    Berkeley Lunch Poems: Kiki Petrosino

    online

    Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...

    Free
  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    The Life Beyond: A Conversation About Grief and Cancer with Authors and Survivors Christine Corrigan and Laraine Herring (Virtual Event)

    Again: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists tells Christine Shields Corrigan's story of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis at forty-nine, and how that forces her,...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Dispatches from the Race War

    Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today. "What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Lauren Groff

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Dr. Larry Ward – America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal (Virtual Event)

    "I am a drop in the ocean, but I'm also the ocean. I'm a drop in America, but I'm also America. Every pain, every confusion,...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Dantiel W. Moniz in conversation with C Pam Zhang

    celebrating Dantial W. Moniz new novel Milk Blood Heat published by Grove Atlantic Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Catana Chetwynd / In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together

    Booksmith is thrilled to host a virtual event with #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Catana Comics, Catana Chetwynd (Snug and Little Moments of Love) for her third book In Love...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The Chicken Sisters: Author KJ Dell’Antonia in Conversation With Nancy Davis Kho

    Please join us on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen's recent favorites, THE CHICKEN SISTERS, with author KJ Dell'Antonia...

  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Lunar New Year Poetry and Calligraphy with Poets Michael Warr, Chun Yu, and Calligrapher Aiqin Zhou

    online

    Celebrate the Year of the Ox with us! Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu read works in English and Chinese (Mandarin) that reflect the essence...

    Free – $25
  • Thu 4
    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross: Black Women’s History of the US

    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present: Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross A Black Women's History of the United States With Sabrina...

    $5 – $20
  • Thu 4
    image for Eves at the Beat
    February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!

    online

    During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into...

    Free
  • Fri 5
    February 5, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Zoom Forward! A Tribute to Jory Post

    Join us online for a tribute to Jory Post, beloved Bookshop friend and champion of the written word. From coordinating Santa Cruz's Open Read to producing...

  • Fri 5
    February 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Dr. Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell with Faith Salie

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 AT 6PM PT WHEN DR. JUDY MELINEK AND T.J. MITCHELL ARE JOINED BY FAITH SALIE TO DISCUSS THEIR LATEST BOOK, AFTERSHOCK, ON...

  • Fri 5
    February 5, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST

    Words out Loud Spoken Word Series

    Virtual

    Derek N. Otsuji and Mark Tarren read from their poetry. Include open mic and literary trivia quiz. Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours, winner...

    Free
  • Sat 6
    February 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Generation Rising Book Launch

    Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth...

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