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  • A Fire Story: Brian Fies

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley

    Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist whose past projects include the graphic novels Mom’s Cancer and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and...

    Free

  • Book Club

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    reading from Minutes of Glory and Other Stories published by The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls...

  • Ruth Reichl, Save Me the Plums

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 - 7:00PM This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information, or sign up for our events emails. This...

  • STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    STILL PROCESSING with Jenna Wortham & Wesley Morris Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Co-presented with The New...

    $35

  • Leslie Carol Roberts

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Leslie Carol Roberts discusses her new book, Here Is Where I Walk. About Here is Where I Walk It is in the Presidio of San Francisco,...

  • Lyrics & Dirges: A “Weekly” Reading Series

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series In celebration of National Poetry Month, our flagship reading series...

  • Lori Ostlund

    Hagerty Lounge, SMC 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga , CA, United States

    Lori Ostlund’s first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World, won the Flannery O’Connor Award, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the...

  • Timothy Hampton

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present an evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton's new book Bob Dylan's Poetics: How...

  • Patrice Vecchione, Ink Knows No Borders

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book, Ink Knows No Borders, a poetry collection that brings...

  • Why There Are Words Presents: Familiar

    Studio 333 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, United States

    Join Why There Are Words on April 11, 2019, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a familiarly spectacular night of readings as six acclaimed authors...

    $10

  • Dave Barry

    Aragon High School Theater 900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mataeo, CA

    After Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry turned 70, did he look to his friends for support? Did he find solace in the family around him? Not...

    $15 – $45

  • Translator Marian Schwartz

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

      Marian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian, The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. About The...

  • MICHAEL LEWIS

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    MICHAEL LEWIS Against The Rules In Conversation with Jacob Weisberg Thursday, April 11, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events  Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Journalist and...

    $29

  • The Poetry Center at SF State Presents: Feliz Lucia Molina

    The Green Arcade 1680 Market St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Feliz' latest chapbook is Crystal Marys. Written from the impassive surface of the Internet and the high desert of Southern California, Crystal Marys is a field study of...

  • Show Me as I Want to be Seen with Porchlight Storytelling

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an evening of storytelling presented in collaboration with Contemporary Jewish Museum and San Francisco’s storytelling series, Porchlight. Each storyteller is sharing a...

    $20

  • Namwali Serpell in Conversation with Yael Goldstein Love

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    discussing Serpell's new novel The Old Drift, an electrifying debut that has already garnered three starred advance reviews and accolades from multiple writers. "Recalling the work of...

  • Big Ideas Reading Group

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"?...

  • Fire, Rain, Darkness: Three New Books from Sixteen Rivers Press

    O'Hanlon Center for the Arts 616 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA

    Fire, Rain, Darkness: Three New Books from Sixteen Rivers Press April 13 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm CAMILLE NORTON, BARBARA SWIFT BAUER & MAYA KHOSLA Book Signing,...

    $10

  • Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California contributors read

    Bird & Beckett Books and Records 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Publisher Lucille Lang Day and poet Joan Gelfand are joined by several Bay Area colleagues who are among the 150 contributors throughout the state whose...

  • Second Sunday Poetry series

    Brit-Marie's Restaraunt 1369 Solano Avenu, Albany, CA

    Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Ron Campbell, Grace Grafton, and Sarah Haba, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany,...

  • GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • La Loteria - Apr 2019

    LOTERIA READING SERIES No. 1: La Luna, La Arãna, La Estrella

    Institute Of advanced Uncertainty P.O. Box 460908, San Francisco

    LOTERIA READING SERIES, No. 1: La Arãna, La Luna, La Estrella An afternoon reading with Raina J. León Thea Matthews MK Chavez Sunday, April 14th,...

    Free

  • New Poetry & 100 Years of Ferlinghetti at Odd Mondays

    Folio Books 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Shauna Hannibal, Fernando Martí, and Zack Rogow, three poets with new collections, read from their work and from the work of Lawrence Ferlinghetti at "New...

    Free