SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE Friday, September 20, 2019, 7:00pm First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland Tickets are available here! Berkeley Arts & Letters presents world-renowned...
Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley - Open Mic to follow! Jan...
Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center. It’ll be a daytime celebration of...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Petina Gappah (The Book of Memory) reading from her second novel, Out of Darkness, Shining Light. Please join us! “This is...
discussing the subject of her new book Wilding:Returning Nature to Our Farm from New York Review Books with an introduction by Eric Schlosser For many...
Jess Row discusses his new book, White Flights: Race, Fiction and the American Imagination. Praise for White Flights “These are brilliant, sweeping, intimate delights—and afterward, you...
The Bindery hosts Timothy Faust, back in San Francisco to present his first book, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next. Please join us! The...
Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a "magnetic debut... Sprawling and ambitious, with crisp pacing and...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Maria Tumarkin to celebrate the publication of her book of essays, on Monday, September 24th at 7pm. Winner of the Melbourne...
The Bindery hosts the launch for Aimee Lucido's debut,Emmy in the Key of Code. With her in conversation isKwame Alexander (The Crossover). Please join us! In this...
Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, No Good Very Bad Asian with Vanessa Hua. Praise for No Good Very Bad Asian "A touching, funny tale of a...
Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents, sounds, imaginative leaps, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose...
Join us to celebrate the release of The San Francisco Writers Grotto's new series LIT STARTS with a writing night on humor. About Writing Humor...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel, The Guardian, on Thursday, September 26th at 7pm. In the year...
Berkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green...
NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, CLARA JEFFERY. Thursday, September 26, 2019,...
Jordan Kantor and Connie Lewallen discuss the life and work of Bill Berkson and his book A Frank O'Hara Notebook. About Bill Berkson Born in New York...
Booksmith hosts the beloved New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodsonfor her new novel, Red at the Bone. Please join us!...
Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves...
September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton Kathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books, 2018), which Indigo Moor called, “a wondrous example of...
* Saturday, September 28 100 Thousand Poets For Change / Bay Area Poetry Marathon joint event ____ Curator: Donna de la Perrière ____ Readers: TBA
Walker Talks The last Sunday of each month (except June/July and December) from 2:30 to 4 pm The last Sunday of every month (except the...
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 Remember: Games & Cocktails at 7:00 PM, Stories at 8:00 PM - but we'll party till Late! at the Verdi Club...
Anne Boyer discusses her new book The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care. Praise for The Undying “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention...
Booksmith hosts editor Belo Miguel Cipriani (Blind: A Memoir) for Firsts: Coming of Age Stories by People with Disabilities, alongn with contributors Caitlin Hernandez andDavid-Elijah Nahmod. Please join us! Take...
celebrating the relase of the latest issue of Freeman's Freeman's: California published by Grove Press Featuring work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alameddine, Rachel Kushner, Mai...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome our friend Jasmine Guillory to celebrate the publication of her fourth novel, Royal Holiday, on Tuesday, October 1st at 7pm. From the New...
Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 7:00 PM Location: In the basement 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley Website “The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses...
Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories. Tuesday, October 1, 7:30 pm Pegasus Books Solano People love hearing jazz...and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich...
Beyond The Shortest Month is a book club dedicated to reading and celebrating authors of color year round. Green Apple Books and Music 506 Clement...