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  • February 2021

  • Sat 6

    Generation Rising Book Launch

    February 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Join us for the book launch of “Generation Rising: A New Politics of Southeast Asian American Activism” with author Loan Thi Dao and Providence Youth...

  • Sat 6

    Virtual Class: Art History with Kerrin Meis – The Aesthetic Movement: The Cult of Beauty Revisited (via Zoom)

    February 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    In their operetta Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan skewered the Aesthetic movement—the anti-industrial stance adopted by a talented and opinionated group of artists, poets, and architects that had...

  • Sat 6

    Neurotica Erotica: Love Poems for the Nervous & Highly Strung

    February 6, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month....

    $22
  • Sat 6

    Conversations with Authors – Chang-rae Lee (Virtual Event)

    February 6, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Chang-rae Lee's latest novel, My Year Abroad, is an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure—and about the human...

  • Mon 8

    Virtual Event: Mark Wunderlich and Diane Seuss

    February 8, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Monday, February 8th at 6pm PT when Mark Wunderlich is joined by Diane Suess for a reading and conversation celebrating his latest...

    Free
  • Tue 9
    Rabbit Island

    Rabbit Island Launch

    February 9, 2021
    online

    Rabbit Island Launch Virtual Event Join Community Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating Elvira Navarro’s Rabbit Island, a collection of stories that traverse the fickle, often terrifying...

    Free
  • Tue 9

    This is Now: Susan Liautaud

    February 9, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

    This event is online. If you’re trying to do the right thing but you’re not sure how, you’re not alone. CRISPR. Robot caretakers. COVID-19. Voting....

  • Tue 9

    VIRTUAL: Launch for Liat Berdugo / The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics, and Politics in Israel and Palestine

    February 9, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Liat Berdugo and her new book The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: Videography, Aesthetics,...

  • Tue 9

    Conversations with Authors – Suleika Jaouad with Elizabeth Gilbert (Virtual Event)

    February 9, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission and, ultimately, a road trip of...

  • Tue 9

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    February 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Kim Stanley Robinson is joined in conversation by Robin Sloan to discuss his latest novel, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit Books). "If I could get policymakers,...

  • Tue 9

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Ada Calhoun, Why We Can’t Sleep

    February 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Join us for a virtual event with Ada Calhoun who will discuss We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (available in paperback on January 19th), an in-depth...

  • Wed 10

    Tim Harford in conversation with Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd)

    February 10, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Tim Harford, called  “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), and Randall Munroe in conversation about The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to...

  • Wed 10

    Nicole Perlroth in conversation with David Sanger

    February 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    discussing Nicole Perlroth's new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race Published by Bloomsbury Books This is...

  • Wed 10

    Robert B. Reich – The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It (Virtual Event)

    February 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this...

    $30
  • Thu 11

    Elizabeth Kolbert & Mark Hertsgaard: Under a White Sky

    February 11, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents an exceptional Zoom event: ELIZABETH KOLBERT + MARK HERTSGAARD Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert,...

    $20 – $35
  • Thu 11

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Valeria Luiselli

    February 11, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 11

    Naz Beheshti – Pause. Breathe. Choose. (Virtual Event)

    February 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    A leading-edge guide to how well-being drives success across all aspects of life. CEO, executive wellness coach, and thought leader Naz Beheshti distills the most...

  • Sat 13

    Virginia Loh-Hagan on Instagram IGTV

    February 13, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST

    reading the award-winning Nian, the Chinese New Year Dragon, an illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale about a dragon that threatens a village...

  • Sat 13

    Conversations with Authors – Vendela Vida (Virtual Event)

    February 13, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Vendela Vida’s newest release, We Run the Tides is an achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of...

  • Tue 16

    Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman: Hundred Years War on Palestine

    February 16, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event:   RASHID KHALIDI & Nora Barrows-Friedman   THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE A History of...

  • Tue 16

    Kate Russo – Super Host (Virtual Event)

    February 16, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated...

  • Tue 16

    Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener | GGP Online Book Club

    February 16, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener. The...

  • Wed 17

    Jenara Nerenberg – Divergent Mind (Virtual Event)

    February 17, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how...

  • Wed 17

    Virtual Event: Kink: On & Off the Page

    February 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Wednesday, February 17th at 6pm PT when we celebrate the new short story anthology, KINK, with an evening of readings, live demonstrations,...

    $20.00 – $22.00
  • Wed 17

    Author: Melissa Valentine in conversation with writer Amber Butts

    February 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    San Francisco Public Library - Virtual Library

    In celebration of Melissa Valentine's book, The Names of All the Flowers, Valentine and Butts will discuss writing and community organizing. Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, The...

    Free
  • Wed 17

    Brontez Purnell in conversation with Melissa Broder

    February 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    celebrating the launch of Brontez Purnell's new book 100 Boyfriends published by MCD x FSG Originals ---------- This is a virtual event that will be...

  • Wed 17

    Virtual Event: Kink: On & Off the Page

    February 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AT 6PM PT WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE NEW SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY, KINK, WITH AN EVENING OF READINGS, LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND CONVERSATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP...

  • Thu 18

    Adam O. Davis & Emma Hine – Index of Haunted Houses & Stay Safe

    February 18, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Join Book Passage in welcoming Adam O. Davis (author of Index of Haunted Houses) and Emma Hine (author of Stay Safe) for a reading and discussion celebrating...

  • Thu 18
    Lily King

    LILY KING

    February 18, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    LILY KING Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:00pm Pacific Time TICKETS “Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett Lily King is...

    $29
  • Thu 18

    This is Now: David Bradford and Carole Robin

    February 18, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    This event is online. In the history of humankind, connecting to others and building strong relationships has never been more complicated. That was true even...

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