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  • LIZ PHAIR In Conversation with Tabitha Soren

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

    LIZ PHAIR In Conversation with Tabitha Soren Monday, October 21, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 co-presented with Noise Pop A...

    $29

  • Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière

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

    Gillian Conoley and Donna de la Perrière Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco reading from new poetry...

  • Amanda Yates Garcia: Initiated

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

    Amanda Yates Garcia discusses her new memoir, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch. Praise for Initiated "Mythic journeys to the underworld, goddesses, ecstasies, fairy tales, ghosts, love,...

    Free

  • LAUNCH for Mimi Lok / Last of Her Name, w/Rita Bullwinkel

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Mimi Lok's debut story collection, Last of Her Name. She'll be in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up). Please save...

  • Tui Sutherland, Wings of Fire

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Tui T. Sutherland—bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series, the Menagerie trilogy, and the Pet Troubleseries—will join us to read and sign copies of her enthralling new books, Hidden Kingdom (Wings...

  • Jake Brennan: Disgraceland

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

    Jake Brennan discusses his new book, Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away With Murder and Behaving Very Badly. Praise for Disgraceland "Through his gritty and powerful stories, Brennan...

    Free

  • Lawrence Weschler

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Lawrence Weschler presents And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks, the untold story of the famous neurologist, his own most singular patient. "The story...

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    Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Jelani Cobb

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

    IBRAM X. KENDI in conversation with Jelani Cobb Thursday, December 12, 2019 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS To purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This event appears...

    $29
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    John James with Henri Cole

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

    John James with Henri Cole Thursday, December 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco     celebrating the release of John...

    Free

  • Michael Nava: Carved in Bone

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

    Reading and Q&A with the six-time Lambda Literary Award-winning mystery writer, Michael Nava. Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels...

    Free

  • Dav Pilkey, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls

    santa cruz civic auditorium 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome worldwide bestselling children's author Dav Pilkey back to Santa Cruz for a ticketed event at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...

    $21

  • Benedicte Maurseth in conversation with David Rothenberg

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

    discussiing the subject of To Be Nothing: Conversations with Knut Hamre, Hardanger Fiddle Master by Benedicte Maurseth published by Terra Nova Press/The MIT Press Dialogues...

  • Adam Rippon / Beautiful on the Outside

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

    Booksmith hosts a special event with Adam Rippon, the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in a Winter Olympics, for his memoir Beautiful on...

  • For Small Creatures Such As We: A Conversation with Sasha Sagan

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world...

    $15

  • Jodie Hollander: My Dark Horses

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

    Jodie Hollander reads from her new poetry collection, My Dark Horses. With readings by poets Francesca Bell and Amanda Moore. About My Dark Horses Set against the...

    Free

  • Open Call for Poets

    Mangalam Center 2018 Allston Way, Berkeley

    Mangalam Center’s Mindful Art Gallery presents: The Joy of Being a Poet – Mindful Expression Through Poetry We are looking for poems that explore the...

  • Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley

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

    October 25, 2019: Haiku with Bruce Feingold, Renée Owen, & Chuck Brickley Bruce Feingold has been a psychologist for forty years in the San Francisco Bay...

  • Su Hwang: Bodega

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

    Su Hwang reads from her new poetry collection, Bodega. Praise for Bodega “If we are not in denial, to name one life, one narrative, we must...

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  • GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL

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

    GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN & MIRIAM PAWEL In Conversation with Lara Bazelon Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Join...

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  • Deborah Landau and Matthew Zapruder

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St, Berkeley, CA

    Tara Hall Pittman South Branch Berkeley Library 1901 Russell St. Berkeley CA Deborah Landau is director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She...

  • Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographical Novel with Alex Chee

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Explore the entangling issues of life, literature, and politics in Alexander Chee’s Thoughts on How to Write an Autobiographic Novel.  Learn how we form our...

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  • Jarett Kobek

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

    celebrating the release of his new novel Only Americans Burn in Hell published by We've Heard You Like Books 'Brilliantly funny ... the best satire...