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  • January 2021

  • Wed 20

    Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision

    January 20, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - March 11, 2021 @ 9:00 pm PST
    Virtual

    Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? In this 8-week craft workshop, you will learn structured techniques...

    $250
  • Thu 21

    Wider Than The Sky: Author Katherine Rothschild in Conversation With Randy Ribay

    January 21, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 6 PM PST for an online book launch of the new YA novel, WIDER THAN THE SKY, with author...

  • Thu 21

    Jonathan Lethem in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    January 21, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    discussing (with wine) Lethem's latest novel The Arrest, an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car....

  • Fri 22

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Bryant Terry, presented by EcoFarm Conference

    January 22, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: An Evening with Bryant Terry: Live Fireside Chat and Cooking Demo, presented by the EcoFarm Conference. Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator,...

  • Fri 22

    Virtual Event: Rebecca Fishow and Emily Schultz

    January 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Friday, January 22 at 6pm PT when Rebecca Fishow discusses her latest collection, The Trouble with Language, with Emily Schultz on Zoom!...

    Free
  • Fri 22

    Virtual Event: Rebecca Fishow and Emily Schultz

    January 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN REBECCA FISHOW DISCUSSES HER LATEST COLLECTION, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, WITH EMILY SCHULTZ ON ZOOM! Zoom Login Info Please...

  • Fri 22

    ACCENTED | For Your Consideration: Diasporic Vietnamese Filmmakers

    January 22, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

    The Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) presents ACCENTED: Dialogues in Diaspora, a virtual series of programs that will feature a variety of writers, poets, artists,...

  • Sat 23

    Jen Sincero – Badass Habits (Virtual Event)

    January 23, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PST

    New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits—breaking, making, understanding, and sticking with them like you've never stuck before. Badass...

    $40
  • Sat 23

    Author Ed Lin Discusses new book, ‘David Tung Can’t Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College

    January 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Hosted by Eastwind Book Club. Live discussion with author Ed Lin. About the book: David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale,...

  • Sat 23

    At The Door – The Preface (inaugural event)

    January 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PST
    online

    At The Door is a monthly reading series featuring and uplifting Black, Indigenous, and people of color voices. Started in collaboration by Danielle, Ariel, Randy,...

    Free
  • Sun 24

    Virtual Class: Mock Caldecott (via Zoom)

    January 24, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    What is a Mock Caldecott? The Caldecott Medal is the most important award given to illustrated children’s books, presented each year by the American Library...

    $20
  • Mon 25

    Claire Wasserman & Her Father, Steve Wasserman: ‘Ladies Get Paid’

    January 25, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA  Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom Event: Claire Wasserman & Her Father, Steve Wasserman "Ladies Get Paid" Claire Wasserman is an author, public speaker,...

    $5 – $20
  • Mon 25

    Author Event: Wandering In Greece With Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin

    January 25, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Please join us on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online book launch of the new collection of travel writing, WANDERING IN GREECE,...

  • Tue 26

    Online Fundraiser for GGP: Author Aaron Wright Discussing Thirteen Doors with Author Bianca Marais

    January 26, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Please join us for an online book launch and discussion on January 26, 2021 at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST featuring author Aaron Wright discussing THIRTEEN...

  • Tue 26

    VIRTUAL: Roy Richard Grinker in conversation with Steve Silberman / Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    January 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host the virtual launch for Roy Richard Grinker's new book Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of...

  • Tue 26

    Simon Winchester – Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (Virtual Event)

    January 26, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the land—through human history, how it has shaped us and...

  • Wed 27

    ‘Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure’ MCD Virtual Event

    January 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST
    Museum of Craft and Design 2569 Third Street, San Francisco

    The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes writer and speaker Katie Treggiden for a virtual discussion of her new book, "Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure"...

    $8
  • Wed 27

    The Echoing Ida Collective

    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    evening of discussion celebrating the launch of the new book The Echoing Ida Collection Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi...

  • Wed 27

    Bradford Pearson with Patrick Radden Keefe – The Eagles of Heart Mountain (Virtual Event)

    January 27, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys...

  • Wed 27

    Virtual Event: Julia Cameron and Judy Collins

    January 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
    online

    Join us on Wednesday, January 27th at 7pm PT for an evening with Julia Cameron and Judy Collins in celebration of Cameron's latest book, The...

    $30.00
  • Wed 27

    Virtual Event: Julia Cameron and Judy Collins

    January 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 AT 7PM PT FOR AN EVENING WITH JULIA CAMERON AND JUDY COLLINS IN CELEBRATION OF CAMERON'S LATEST BOOK, THE LISTENING PATH: THE...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Anastasia Higginbotham, What You Don’t Know

    January 28, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Join us for a special virtual event with author and illustrator Anastasia Higginbotham whose new picture book, What You Don't Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood,...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 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 28

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, K-Ming Chang

    January 28, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 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 28

    Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Peter Gizzi reads from Now It's Dark: New Poems published by Wesleyan University Press ---- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28

    VIRTUAL: Debut Authors Panel with Lupita Reads, featuring Benjamin Garcia, Emily Hashimoto & Poupeh Missaghi

    January 28, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Booksmith is very pleased to host a virtual event with a trio of debut authors in conversations about their new books: Benjamin Garcia (Thrown in the Throat), Emily Hashimoto (A...

  • Thu 28

    Jerald Walker & Kevin Cartwright: Zoom Event: How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

    January 28, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
    Virtual

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: Jerald Walker and Kevin Cartwright: A Zoom Event How to Make a Slave Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction...

    $5 – $20
  • Sat 30

    Aida Salazar on Instagram Live IGTV

    January 30, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm PST

    reading The Land of the Cranes, a heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in...

  • Sat 30

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

    January 30, 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 30

    Barbara McHugh with Dorothy Edwards – Bride of the Buddha (Virtual Event)

    January 30, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    Bride of the Buddha is a vivid portrayal of the life of Yasodhara—abandoned wife of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama—depicting her as a spiritual seeker in her...

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