Booksmith is pleased to collaborate with The Internet Archive to host a virtual event with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi for his new book, co-authored with Zara Houshmand, Running Toward Mystery:...
Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Julia Chiapella, Julie Murphy, Cynthia White part of the Zoom Forward...
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Showing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate....
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...
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...
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...
presents a special online performance Saturday, June 6, 2020 5pm PST / 8pm EST Register for our Zoom gathering presents a special online performance Saturday,...
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'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...
Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at...
12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...
Booksmith and The Bindery host Minna Salami for her new book of essays, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which...
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...
With Melanie Abrams and Andrew Altschul. Via Facebook Live: facebook.com/booksmith
Register ahead of time at here! Charis Bookstore hosts a virtual event with Michael Long, editor of Race Man, and Pamela Horowitz, who worked in partnership with...
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...
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...
The blockbuster Swedish suspense phenomenon Lars Kepler, famed for the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, is actually two people: husband-and-wife duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril...
Join Oakland Voices for a conversation about COVID-19, policing, and inequality in Oakland. This weeks’ guest is Cat Brooks, executive director of Justice Teams Network...
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 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...
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...
Molly Ball, National Political Correspondent at Time Magazine and Author of "Pelosi" In Conversation with Carla Marinucci, Senior Writer of Politico's California Playbook Part of...
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...
Our Summer On the Same Page author Alvin Orloff will be in conversation with Beth Lisick and K.M. Soehnlein. Alvin Orloff, Bay Area native and...
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...
We’re holding a virtual water-themed Nerd Nite on Wednesday June 10, 2020 at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT as part of ReedPop’s Sea Week. ReedPop,...
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...
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...
Red Light Lit and Light Rail Station are teaming up for a series of livestream readings through June. For our first event we're hosting poet...