Writing from Your Life, with Meghan Ward (via Wet Ink), Oct. 15
THURSDAYS, OCT. 15 — NOV. 19 | Everyone has a story to tell. Tell yours in 2020 with Writing From Your Life, an asynchronous six-week...
$375.00
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Conversations with Authors – Steph Kent & Logan Smalley (Virtual Event)
Steph Kent and Logan Smalley’s book, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book, is a revival of the yellow-pages directory you remember, but instead of contact information, it is...
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VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface
Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...
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C PAM ZHANG IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
How Much of These Hills Is Gold BY C PAM ZHANG How the gold rush hasn’t been the subject of better novels is a question...
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The Memoir of Childhood: Memoir Workshop with Tommy Mouton
We understand the sheer power of our respective childhood and adolescent memories. But how can we harness this power to propel a narrative as well as capture...
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San Francisco’s Chinatown- Dick Evans and Kathy Chin Leong in conversation with Ben Fong Torres
onlineSan Francisco's Chinatown is the third in a series of contemporary documentary photography books by San Francisco resident and photographer Dick Evans – following his...
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Hugh Raffles In conversation with Stephen Sparks about The Book of Unconformities
Hugh Raffles is joined in conversation by the bookstore's Stephen Sparks to discuss The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Pantheon). Visit our Crowdcast channel to...
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Susan Wiggs Discussing The Lost and Found Bookshop | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
Please join us on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for an online discussion with author Susan Wiggs discussing her new novel, THE LOST AND FOUND...
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Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CAA Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...
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THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar
ZOOOMTHE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...
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Terry Tempest Williams
Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....
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ACCENTED | She Who Has No Master(s): Would That
The She Who Has No Master(s) Collective will discuss their virtual exhibit "Would That" at the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Art Gallery The...
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Life in Space: Translation of a Poetry Book by Galina Rymbu
Globus Books is honored to present a new book LIFE IN SPACE, by Galina Rymbu (Галина Рымбу), translated by Joan Brooks and with the foreword by Eugene Ostashevsky,...
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Poetry for Life with Katharine Harer
“Poetry is a life companion,” says instructor Katharine Harer. “People come and go, pets die, places change, but poetry doesn’t go away because it’s already...
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Chinatown Pretty Book Talk
Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City,...
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Conversations with Authors – Pico Iyer (Virtual Event)
Pico Iyer’s A Beginner’s Guide to Japan draws on his years of experience—his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, brief,...
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PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation
Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of...
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Colossus: Home Reading
Kelliane Parker Susan Dambroff Keith M. Gaboury Daniel Ari Elaine de Coligny Phyllis Houseman noemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)
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Conversations with Authors – Lan Cao (Virtual Event)
Lan Cao’s dual first-person memoir, Family in Six Tones—co-authored with her American daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao—explores their complicated relationship, culture clash, and how they have...
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Poetry Mentorship with Brian Tierney
This remote poetry “class” offers a unique opportunity for personal and intimate poetry instruction. Students will work with Brian Tierney one-on-one, via written correspondence over...
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Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado
This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...
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VIRTUAL: Rebecca Roanhorse in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders / Black Sun
Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Rebecca Roanhorse for her new novel Black Sun. She'll be in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders. Please join us! ** Please note **...
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Deborah Madison, An Onion in My Pocket
Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...
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Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion
onlineBrandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...
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Tiffany Shlain with Arianna Huffington – 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection (Virtual Event)
Winner of The Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award • People’s New Book Worth Reading • Entrepreneur’s 12 Productivity and Time-Management Books to Read “I’m won over to...
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Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna
celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...
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VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David Livingstone Smith & David P. Barash / On Inhumanity
Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host David Livingstone Smith for his new book On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It. He'll be in conversation...
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A Witch In Time by Constance Sayers | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Constance Sayer's new novel, A...
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Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)
Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...
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Writers Who Want to Get Noticed: Online Literary Profiles, with Lyzette Wanzer (via Zoom), Oct. 21
WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 21 — DEC. 2 | One of the biggest challenges writers face is getting their work the recognition it deserves. You’ve been sending...
$330.00