• Dani Shapiro in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner

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

    It was a simple test. Yet, the course of her life changed forever. Dani Shapiro, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass, Devotion, and...

    $10 – $40
  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to...

    Free
  • Meet Author Jasmine Guillory

    Oakland Public Library - Main Branch 125 - 14th Street, Oakland

    Meet Jasmine Guillory, a writer, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. New York...

    Free
  • Story is the Thing

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

    "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms." -Muriel Rukeyser Reading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. Join us...

    $12
  • Chloe Aridjis

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

    reading from Sea Monsters: A Novel published by Catapult Press Pulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division, Nick Cave, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, an...

  • Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

    The Castro Theatre 429 Castro Street, San Francisco

    Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez, moderated by Lauren Schiller. Thursday, February 21, 2019, 7 p.m. The Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco,...

    $20.00
  • Marina Mularz

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection, Welcome to Freedom Point. Praise for Welcome to Freedom Point "Fresh, witty, delightfully weird, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused...

    Free
  • Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    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...

    $12 – $15
  • Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    Oakland poet and actor, George Higgins, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Pleiades, Nimrod, and others. About his...

    Free
  • George Higgins & Charlotte Innes

    St. Alban's Episcopal Church 1501 Washington Avenue, Albany, CA

    George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There, There (White Violet Press, 2013), Joan Aleshire wrote, “this book deepens our knowledge of how...

  • THERE 28

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

    THERE 28  will be Friday, February 22, 2019, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande, and poet MK Chavez, also of...

  • Creating Leonardo: Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo’s Legacy

    Marines' Memorial Club 609 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore...

    $25 – $80
  • Clearly Meant presents James Cagney

    Claremont Branch, Berkeley Public Library 2940 Benvenue Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book, Black...

    Free
  • Bawdy Storytelling “Dirty Dozen”

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Saturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM, Stories at 7:00 PM (NOTE: This is...

    $25 – $65
  • Bawdy Storytelling’s ‘Best of Bawdy’ (10 PM, SF)

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Saturday February 23rd, 2019 at the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA) Remember: Bang-O at 9:30 PM, Stories at 10:00 PM (NOTE: This is...

    $25 – $65
  • Bay Area Chinese Writers Discuss their Writing

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

    More than ten Chinese writers from the Bay Area will talk about their passion for literature and how and why they write. They will give...

  • Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    The American Bookbinders Museum 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Anya Martin and Nick Mamatas

    TBD
  • Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3

    Alameda Free Library, Stafford Room 1550 Oak Street, Alameda, ca

    For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by...

    Free
  • Tommy Orange

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

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 With his stunning debut novel, There There, Tommy Orange asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and...

    $29
  • SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB Meeting

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Please join us for a lively discussion about “Patricia sigue Aqui” by Maria Minguez Arias. For more information about the bookclub please contact J. Iranyi...

  • Maxine Gordon on the life and legacy of Jazz legend Dexter Gordon

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

    celebrating the release of Sophisticated Giant:The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Foreword), Woody Louis Armstrong Shaw III (Afterword) published by University of California...

  • Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder – – Notes from Cyberground

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    Tuesday, February 26 7:00pm EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling, on Tuesday, February 26th...

  • Charlie Jane Anders

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

    The Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards all agree on Charlie Jane Anders, as do the devotees of her stunning 2016 achievement in literary science fiction,...

    Free
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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

         reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi...

  • Nona Caspers and Friends

    James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. San Francisco,, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate Nona Caspers' latest book, the novel, The Fifth Woman. Publisher’s Weekly said, “This gem of a collection is a transcendent portrayal...

    Free
  • Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we

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

    #we presents Tom Odegard speaking on "Being Intersex" and reading poetry on the subject, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading...

    Free