• VIRTUAL EVENT: Eric Cervini and Johnny Sibilly

    Join us on Crowdcast on Friday June 5th at 7PM PDT for a conversation between author Eric Cervini and Pose actor Johnny Sibilly on The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. The United States of...

  • Rosalyn Learns How to Misbehave: A Zoom Puppet Story

    Ramon Abad and the Bindlestiff Studio Puppet Crew present a KID-FRIENDLY live stream puppet performance with about 9 artists/storytellers via Zoom. Celebrate this fun-filled afternoon...

    Free
  • Marianne Ingheim – Out of Love

    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    We all tell ourselves stories about who we are. Many of these stories are self-critical and disempowering. Through the practice of self-compassion, we can rewrite...

  • Babylon Salon

    presents a special  online performance  Saturday, June 6, 2020 5pm PST / 8pm EST  Register for our Zoom gathering presents a special  online performance  Saturday,...

    Free
  • Zoom Forward! Catamaran Summer 2020 Issue Launch

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event celebrating the Summer 2020 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post.  This...

  • Kathy Evans – Trespassers Welcome

    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    Kathy Evans's full-length debut, Trespassers Welcome, is an extravaganza of imaginative leaps, bounds, and deep dives, a worldwide web of seemingly unlikely but delightfully believable connections—from...

  • Get Lit #61 (Music by: TBA)

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

    Free
  • Well-RED: Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson

    Tuesday, June 9, 7pm on Zoom Doren Robbins and Sharon Olson open mic follows online on Zoom Free, register on Eventbrite! presented with Works/San José...

    Free
  • Jennifer Worley

    Book Release Party for Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley from Harper Collins This is a virtual event that...

  • Carter Sickels – The Prettiest Star

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return...

  • VIRTUAL EVENT: Laurie R. King, Riviera Gold

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for an online event with beloved bestselling author Laurie R. King, who will will celebrate...

  • Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits

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

    Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba, a...

    $29
  • John Scalzi And Sarah Gailey For Dark Carnival

    Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...

    Free
  • Virtual Event: Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino

    Join us on Zoom on June 10th at 5:00pm PDT for Megha Majumdar and Marie-Helene Bertino discussing their new novels A Burning and Parakeet. Zoom Login Please click the link below to...

  • ALEXANDRA PETRI presents NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY: ESSAYS

    Berkeley Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley

    In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics...

    $13 – $49
  • Laurie R. King – Riviera Gold

    Book Passage Corte Madera 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA, United States

    t’s summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. As American expatriates begin to drift down from Paris, their...

  • Black Artists Showcase ft. Meccamorphosis

    THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST! Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999, and...

    Free
  • Write From The Gut at SFPL Poem Jam

    SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck presents Poem Jam as it makes its debut as an online forum. Kim hands the keys to the car over...

    Free