We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone's favorite construction crew is back...
The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo...
Celebrating three awesome new books! Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...
Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...
John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, the Mountain Goats), Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown), Daniel Lavery (Something That May...
HURSDAYS, OCT. 22 — 29 |Your opinion matters. You have taken the time to research an issue and think it through. Now how can you...
In between World Wars, during the Great Depression, American democracy was threatened by a shadow Nazi party, complete with a self-proclaimed American Hitler and a...
The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city's poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award...
An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights...
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...
Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...
Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools...
Love. Loss. Transformation. These themes are so integral to the human experience that writers have returned to them again and again for centuries. But how...
“Have you wanted to test the waters of creative writing but don’t know where to begin, or how?" asks instructor Kathy Garlick. “Have you waded...
“Many people are driven to write by the simple human need to express ourselves,” says instructor David Jacobson. “There may be no better way to...
The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for...
Claire Messud‘s latest release, Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, opens a window on her own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm,...
The Before Columbus Foundation recognizes the winners of the 41st Annual American Book Awards. The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding...
THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Eoin Colfer is best known for his New York Times bestselling blockbuster series Artemis Fowl which gained a huge worldwide readership...
Join Eastwind Book Club this October as we read Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong About this Event Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers...
Booksmith and The Bindery are pleased to host Omnidawn Press for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work....
You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. –Maya Angelou “The power of language, of the voice, is not...
Marilyn Chase’s compelling new biography, Everything She Touched, recounts the life of WWII prison camp survivor Ruth Asawa, who broke barriers of race and gender to...
D.L. Lang Yolanda Morrissette Tyrice Brown Jos Burns Aquila Lewis- Ross Elizabeth Costello
Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky's writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the...
Electric Literature executive director Halimah Marcus talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet, 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Safe as Houses) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic,...
This special event will introduce Left Coast Writers® to the broader community and showcase the many programs that it offers to authors. As part of...
Booksmith and The Bindery host a special virtual event of interrelated, genre-crossing collaborations: a book of sonnets and letters, an essay collection, and a film, all of which investigate...
We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. Set in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to...
Bestselling author Sandor Ellix Katz joins us for a virtual event for his new book, Fermentation as Metaphor (Chelsea Green). This event will stream on Crowdcast. Visit...