Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
Legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his new novel—a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the...
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Blogging 101: Publish Your Passion with Allison Landa
Blogging began in earnest the better part of three decades ago, and today there are an estimated 600 million blogs worldwide, with 31 million active...
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VIRTUAL: Michele Morano in conversation with Ryan Van Meter / Like Love
Booksmith and The Bindery host Michele Morano for her new collection of essays Like Love. She'll be in conversation with Ryan Van Meter (If You Knew Then What I Know Now). This...
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Virtual Event: David Lazar and Joanna Eleftheriou
Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm PDT when David Lazar discusses his book Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age with Joanna Eleftheriou on Zoom! Zoom...
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Marketing Your Nonfiction Book: Build the Platform, Send the Query, Sign the Deal with Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana
Your memoir, hybrid memoir, or nonfiction book is in the works. Maybe you’re halfway through and are wondering how to build your platform or make...
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Try it Again: The Art of Revision, with Audrey Ferber (via Zoom), Oct. 28
WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 28 — DEC. 2 | “My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov Have you “finished” a story or personal essay that you know...
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Two Truths and a Lie (What Even Is Truth, Anyway?)
onlineEavesdrop on your dream writing group meeting with a classic drinking (or not drinking) game. Memoirists and essayists are masters at spinning everyday lives into...
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Conversations with Authors – Mikel Jollett (Virtual Event)
Mikel Jollett‘s remarkable new memoir of a tumultuous life, Hollywood Park, is both the story of a man born into one of the country’s most infamous...
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How to Build a Successful Freelance Writing Career for Sex Industry Professionals with Laura LeMoon
Writing and pitching stories from the POV of a marginalized identity like a sex worker and/or sex trafficking survivor can be extraordinarily frustrating. If editors...
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San Francisco Public Virtual Library – Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
onlineAn evening with Barbara Jane Reyes, Rachelle Cruz, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry...
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VIRTUAL: Launch for Scott James / Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host the virtual launch for Scott James and his new book Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and...
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Virtual Event: July Westhale and MK Chavez
Join us on Wednesday, October 28 at 6pm PDT when July Westhale joins us to read from and celebrate her new collection, Via Negativa, with MK...
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Intro to Creative Nonfiction: Let Your Story Unfold with Jennifer Lewis
“Have you always wanted to write but are stumped by the way to tell your own story?” asks instructor Jennifer Lewis. “In this remote class,...
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No Matter What Faith: A Conversation with Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid (Virtual Event)
ack by popular demand (and just when we need it most), good friends Anne Lamott and Janine Urbaniak Reid will be talking about what they’ve learned in Covid College...
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Author Talk: Nitasha Tamar Sharma with Andrew Way Leon
Nitasha Tamar Sharma will discuss her writings on Desis hip hop culture and race and indigeneity in Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands. The talk will...
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Lee and Andrew Child with Michael Connelly – The Sentinel (Virtual Event)
Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as the acclaimed #1 bestselling author Lee Child teams up with his...
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VIRTUAL: An Evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa & Kimberly Reyes
Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to host an evening with Desirée Alvarez, Anthony Cody, Jennifer Hasegawa and Kimberly Reyes. These fabulous writers will read from and discuss their new...
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Writing Crisis: Crafting the Literature of Turbulent Times, with Roberto Lovato (via Zoom), Oct. 29
THURSDAYS, OCT. 29 — NOV. 11 | Living in times marked by relentless and intersecting crises, the serious writer must ask, “Where is the literature...
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EmeryArts Poetry Reading with Sarah Kobrinsky
onlineEnjoy an evening of poetry reading with Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Some ekphrastic poems inspired by the artwork in the 2020 Emeryville Art...
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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
Event will be held on Zoom. Click the link in the event description for info. https://poetry.sfsu.edu/events/29160-collected-poems-bob-kaufman-celebration-his... In celebration of the recent publication of the Collected Poems...
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Fearless Poetry Workshop with Julie Bruck
Now celebrating over 15 years at The Writing Salon, this workshop draws people who want to jumpstart their poetry practice and to keep the engine...
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Matthew McConaughey with Reese Witherspoon – Greenlights (Virtual Event)
“This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life. Adventures that have been significant,...
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Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #33
90 minutes 30 readers 3 minutes each On Zoom! FREE AND ALL WELCOME! Sign up to read here: https://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 If you enjoy spaces like this...
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Mindy Uhrlaub – Unnatural Resources (Virtual Event)
When her Congolese village is destroyed by an invading militia group, eleven-year-old Therese is injured and outcast. Stranded with only her little brother’s best friend...
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Hollister Rand – Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask (Virtual Event)
Is it possible to continue relationships beyond death? Do loved ones see what's going on in our lives? Can they help us with the challenges...
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Anxious People by Frederik Backman | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Frederik Backman's new novel, ANXIOUS PEOPLE....
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Fiction Workshop: Honing the Art of Storytelling with Andy Touhy
You write something down and it’s awkward, trivial, artificial, approximate. But with effort . . . you can get it to open up, and expose...
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Colossus: Home Reading
Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf
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Alta Asks Live: Keenan Norris
Author Keenan Norris is joined in conversation by author and Alta contributor Susan Straight on Wednesday, November 4 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time for an intimate discussion...
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Contemporary Classics – Weather Pat Holt’s monthly book discussion group
Patricia Holt, former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, continues her popular book group, “Contemporary Classics.” A book should stand the test of time...