How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly: The Green New Deal and Beyond
This event is free & will be broadcast on Zoom. Sign up here to attend! Stan Cox, author of The Green New Deal and Beyond, will join his...
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Celebrate APA Heritage with the Poetry of J.Bayani, A.Cassinetto, M.Win
Poetry and conversation with Aileen Cassinetto, Maw Shein Win, and Jason Bayani About this Event Celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month with Eastwind Books of Berkeley!...
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Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading
Foglifter's Emerging Writer Fellows Reginald Edmonds and Ali Michael Cannon Present: Living Between Generations: An Intergenerational Reading Please join Foglifter in celebrating the culmination of...
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Youth Spirit Artworks Open Mic Poetry, Asé
Our monthly Open Mic Poetry event, Asé, is happening this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Zoom! We are featuring poets Kathy Dana...
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Funny Sexy Sad Worldwide: a Zoom reading to benefit Bail Project
The Funny Sexy Sad council-- Lizzy, Amira, Nate and Melissa-- host these incredible readers, all sharing something that's either hilarious, miserable, or some kind of...
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Jazmina Barrera and Philip Hoare
Join us for a virtual--but real!--event to celebrate the publication of Jazmina Barrera's On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press). Jazmina will be joined by Philip Hoare for a conversation...
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James Tracy, Hilary Moore, and Friends
with James Tracy, Hilary Moore, Bill Crossman, and Nancy Kurshan celebrating the release of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's...
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Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute
Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. You can order a copy...
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Porochista Khakpour / Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. This will be a virtual event, live-streamed on our Facebook...
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VIRTUAL: Amir Ahmadi Arian / Then the Fish Swallowed Him
Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we will be streaming...
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Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels — A Different Kind of Escape
As society grinds to a halt around us, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the...
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ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT
Stories of triumph and perseverance, hope, support, and love from times of plague and pandemic ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT Tuesday, May 26, 6pm PT/9pm/ET We’re...
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World --------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...
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How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times
In conversation with Diana Divecha Program will air Tuesday May 26th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a world where...
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Phuc Tran: Sigh, Gone
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesPhuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. Praise for Sigh, Gone “The...
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Joanna Hershon & Phyllis Grant
Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United StatesJoanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. Praise for St. Ivo “From the very first...
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N.K. Jemisin And Rebecca Roanhorse For Borderlands Books
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
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Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder
Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest...
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Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed, Nicole Mabry, Peter Kline
Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed,...
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Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...
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YOU’RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: I’VE GOT A SONG FOR THAT
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 6:30 PM 9:00 PM GLOBALLY (map) You’re Going to Die Presents: I've Got a Song for That with Scott Ferreter, The...
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Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro
This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...
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SUSAN CHOI
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States“A natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability.” — Joan Didion Susan Choi is the award-winning author of five...
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Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles
discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...
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One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...
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Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda
During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...
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Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman
Round Weather 951 Aileen St., OaklandRound Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...
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Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...
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Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein
Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United StatesRobert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...
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Gennifer Choldenko, Avi And Aimee Lucido For Towne Center Books
Fundraising Goal: $2000 It’s a tough time for local bookstores, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to...
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