• GET LIT #40 (MUSIC BY TBD)

    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts)...

    $10 – $25
  • Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl

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

    Tuesday, September 18, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Lisa Hanawalt presents and signs Coyote Doggirl BoJack Horseman producer / production designer and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt presents Coyote Doggirl....

  • Lisa Hanawalt

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

    Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel, Coyote Doggirl. Praise for Coyote Doggirl "Lisa's work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one's imagination. She...

  • Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young DATE & TIME: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 -  7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. LOCATION: De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge,...

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series

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

    Wednesday, September 19, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series Lyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring...

  • InsideStorytime IN EXTREMIS

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

    Thursday September 20th, 7-9pm, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars), Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up), Philip Harris (The Flowers In My Mothers' Name), Kate Folk, and Steven Black.

  • MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons, reading and in conversation

    The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We'll be helping to debut the first full-length book, Her Mouth As Souvenir, by...

  • Denise Clifton

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

    Denise Clifton discusses her new book, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today....

  • Valerie Wallace, Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds

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

    Valerie Wallace discusses her new poetry collection, House of McQueen with Daniel Handler and Kevin Simmonds. Praise for House of McQueen “How does a writer begin to...

  • THE DAILY

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

    Michael Barbaro In Conversation with Kevin Roose Co-presented with The New York Times Friday, September 21, 2018, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400...

    TBA
  • BOOK RELEASE: NOMADIC PRESS’ FALL 2018 CHAPBOOK COLLECTION

    Nomadic Press: Uptown 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, United States

    Join us at our Uptown, Oakland, location for an amazing evening of readings, live music, gnosh / refreshments, and friends of Nomadic Press as we...

  • Dickson Lam

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

    Dickson Lam is author of Paper Sons: A Memoir. Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, the Kenyon Review Online, Hyphen Magazine, the Normal School, PANK, the Good Men Project, the Rumpus, and Kartika Review. He...

  • Katya Apekina, Bryan Hurt, and Lisa Locascio

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery hosts a special afternoon of readings from new books by Katya Apekina (The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish), Bryan Hurt (Everyone Wants to be Ambassador...

  • POETRY EVENT!

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

    Featured readers tba Curated by Aakash Tyagi

  • Jane Ira Bloom Quartet – Improvising Emily Dickinson

    SFJAZZ Center 201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Jazz’s greatest living soprano saxophonist performs with her spectacular quartet including pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Mark Helias, and drummer Bobby Previte. Possessing a painterly style...

    $30
  • Jackson Burgess

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

    Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Sunday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Jackson Burgess as he reads from his newest poetry collection...

  • KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

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

    Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything was...

    $29
  • Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go

    The Booksmith 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie...

  • Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser

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

    Monday, September 24, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Fifty years later, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge...