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...
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...
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...
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...
THURSDAYS, OCT. 29 — NOV. 11 | Living in times marked by relentless and intersecting crises, the serious writer must ask, “Where is the literature...
Enjoy 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...
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...
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...
“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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
You write something down and it’s awkward, trivial, artificial, approximate. But with effort . . . you can get it to open up, and expose...
Dena Rod Karla Brundage Peggy Morrison Sharon Coleman Norma Smith Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart Carol Dorf
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...
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...
An Intimate Conversation About the U.S. Election, the State of Democracy, and The Most Radical Thing You Can Do. Join Orion Magazine and Point Reyes...
Berkeley Lunch Poems A noontime poetry reading series Readings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two...
Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Stryker, 2020–22 Barbara Lee Distinguished Professor of Women's Leadership (RSVP to receive the event link) Thursday, November 5, 2020...
Writers Against Trump Join us as writers and booksellers across the nation come together in a day of solidarity. City Lights hosts a regional event...
Join us for a book talk with Karen Tei Yamashita, author of I-Hotel, Letters to Memory, and Sansei and Sensibility. Hosted by Andrew Way Leong...
Join us on Thursday, November 5 at 5pm when Nate Klug and Fiona Sze-Lorrain read from their new collections, Hosts and Guests and Rain in Plural, on Zoom! Zoom Login Info...
reading from his new novel Aphasia published by Farrar Straus Giroux Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—"an original, insubordinate novel" (New...
Please join us on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on cookbooks and giftbooks in the first episode of our Great...
It's about time - rebel girls, rad women, little leaders, and great guys are Asian American too! Readers will enjoy learning about 20 trailblazers who...
Anthony Lee Head’s debut collection, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road, tells the story of modern-day runaways escaping the rat race and heading to a tropical paradise in...
You must register to attend this event! Free and Open to the Public. Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. Ayşegül...
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2020 AT 7 PM PST – 9:30 PM PST During Women's History month a constellation of events brought together a group of...
Elizabeth Strout's latest novel, Olive Again, continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. Elizabeth is the...