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  • August 2020
  • Sat 15
    August 15, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Online Fundraiser for GGP: Authors Byron Lane (A STAR IS BORED) & Steven Rowley (THE EDITOR) in Discussion with Author Bianca Marais

    A Great Good Place for Books welcomes authors Byron Lane (A STAR IS BORED) & Steven Rowley (THE EDITOR) in a discussion with author Bianca...

    $10 – $55
  • Sun 16
    August 16, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Christine Montross, M.D. (Virtual Event)

    Sunday, August 16th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT Christine Montross, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Calahan Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us...

  • Sun 16
    August 16, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Sign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 A monthly Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens...

    Free
  • Mon 17
    August 17, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Aya Gruber / The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration

    Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This third event in the series features Aya Gruber discussing her...

  • Mon 17
    August 17, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

    Free
  • Tue 18
    August 18, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Bridget Quinn and Carol Edgarian

    Join us on Tuesday, August 18 at 5pm PDT when Bridget Quinn discusses her new book She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next with Carol...

  • Tue 18
    August 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Marquis Bey in conversation with Andrew Cutrone

    discussing Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism published by AK Press This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the...

  • Tue 18
    August 18, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Get Lit #63 (Music by: TBA)

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

    $10 – $50
  • Tue 18
    August 18, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Alexandra Fuller, Travel Light, Move Fast

    Join us for an online event with bestselling author Alexandra Fuller who will discuss her new memoir Travel Light, Move Fast, a beautifully written and deeply...

  • Wed 19
    August 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

    Conversations with Authors – Darin Strauss (Virtual Event)

    Wednesday, August 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT Darin Strauss in conversation with Kelly Corrigan Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every...

  • Wed 19
    August 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Virtual: Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Sara Campos

    Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her new novel, The New Americans, with Sara Campos. Select praise for Micheline Aharonian Marcom “The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers...

  • Wed 19
    August 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    This is Now – Unbreaking Government

    This event is online. Amidst the political morass the US has become, some are voicing the unthinkable: has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to...

    Free – $30
  • Thu 20
    August 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library

    Thursday, August 20, 7:00pm featuring Caroline Goodwin online on Zoom registration link to come bio to come Upcoming at Third Thursdays: September: Peter Carroll

    Free
  • Thu 20
    August 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Lloyd Kahn, The Half-Acre Homestead

    Bookshop Santa Cruz invites you to join us for a free online event with green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn for a presentation of his new...

  • Thu 20
    August 20, 2020 @ 7:30 pm PDT

    [Virtual Ruby] AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners by Margaret

    Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...

    Free
  • Thu 20
    August 20, 2020 @ 8:00 pm PDT

    Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, United States

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

    Free
  • Fri 21
    August 21, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Chuck Palahniuk / The Invention of Sound

    ​Berkeley Arts & Letters hosts Chuck Palahniuk for his new novel The Invention of Sound. Please save the date and join us! ** Please note ** >  This is a ticketed...

    $36
  • Fri 21
    August 21, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    Virtual Event: Chuck Prophet and Stevie Simkin

    Join us on Friday, August 21 at 12pm PDT for an afternoon with musician Chuck Prophet and Stevie Simkin, author of What Makes the Monkey Dance: The Life and...

    $25
  • Fri 21
    August 21, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading

    SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center.  For a month QTIPOC writers...

    Free
  • Sat 22
    August 22, 2020 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

    Jack & Agyu: Children’s Story Time with Justine Villanueva

    Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children's story time featuring a live read-aloud of Filipino children's book, Jack and Agyu, with author Justine Villanueva....

  • Sun 23
    August 23, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    Meera Sriram VIRTUAL LAUNCH

    Celebrating the publication of her picture book A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India.  To register, go to: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/book-launch-a-gift-for-amma/ Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 11:00am...

  • Sun 23
    August 23, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT

    The Tree and the Vine: The Queer Fiction of Dola de Jong

    City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in conjunction with Transit Books present Editor Kristen Gehrman in conversation with Jennifer Croft    celebrating the new book The Tree...

  • Mon 24
    August 24, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Erin Hatton / Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment

    Booksmith and UC Press present a 6-part series of virtual events focused on urgent societal issues, broadcasting every Monday at 11am PST. This fourth event in the series features Erin Hatton discussing her...

  • Mon 24
    August 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Richard Kadrey / Ballistic Kiss

    Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Upstream author Richard Kadrey to celebrate his new novel Ballistic Kiss, the latest and penultimate volume in his Sandman Slim series. ** Please...

  • Tue 25
    August 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:10 pm PDT

    George Dyson (Online)

    This event is online. The hacker historian and author behind 2012's Turing's Cathedral returns to Kepler's for the release of Analogia, a boldly philosophical book...

    Free – $40
  • Tue 25
    August 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Martin Jay in conversation with Paul Breines

    discussing Martin Jay's new book Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations published by Verso Press The evening will begin with a short introduction by...

  • Tue 25
    August 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK GROEN | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of THE SECRET DIARY OF HENDRIK...

  • Tue 25
    August 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America

    Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013), Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015), and co-host of Pod Save...

    $31 – $56
  • Wed 26
    August 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Two Languages / One Community with Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu

    Booksmith presents Two Languages / One Community with poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu. They will be reading from and discussing their work. Two Languages / One Community brings...

  • Thu 27
    August 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL EVENT: David Eagleman, Livewired

    Bestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. "Eagleman delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity....

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