The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! In an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, environmental collapse, and spiritual...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation's most...
What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation's most vulnerable people in the Trump era? Tina Sacks is assistant professor...
GET TICKETS co-presented with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Join us for a conversation with Tracy K. Smith, the current Poet Laureate of...
With pieces featured in The Mary Sue, The Portalist, and Tor, local writer Mike Chen shares his debut novel, Here and Now and Then. To save his daughter, he'll...
reading and in conversation with Jennifer S. Cheng celebrating the release of Oculus: Poems published by Graywolf Press In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just...
The events that define us aren't always immediately apparent. That's the idea behind On the Cusp, a quarterly reading series that seeks to explore the meaning...
We are looking forward to celebrating TOSH, published by City Lights! Tosh Berman will be in conversation with Natalia Mount, Executive Director, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland...
Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir, Bruja. In 2016, Bustle named her one of "9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work...
Doors open 6:00pm Event begins 6:30pm At the American Bookbinders Museum
Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents IS OUR EARTH IN HOSPICE MODE? DAHR JAMAIL + ANTONIA JUHASZ The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning...
CHILDREN'S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) Bring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling, hands on arts activities, tiny bookmaking projects, food, music and...
TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the...
TEEN POETRY OPEN MIC (7-9pm) Bring your poems, verses, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic, hosted by Vice Oakland...
EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Elena Schneider and Caitlin Rosenthal to discuss their new new books The Occupation of Havana and Accounting for Slavery, on Friday, February 1st at 7pm. The Occupation of Havana offers...
The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems, Half-Hazard, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen...
STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE 1320 Addison St., Berkeley, CA Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave. between Acton & Bonar St. Parking on...
Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson, Truong Tran, Max Shanley...
City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas. Saturday, February 2nd, 8:00-9:00pm, San Francisco, CA: SF Library, Main Branch https://www.nightofideassf.com/ What...
GET TICKETS Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films...
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How...
celebrating their recent books of poetry Clouds Running In - by Kim Shuck - from Taurean Horn Press "'You will know the poets by...
Description Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 Bang-O & Cocktails at 6:30 PM, Stories & Songs at 7 PM at the Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa Street, San...
4:30pm at The Poetry Center San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco free
What is the state of the immigration reform movement in America? DACA, the Border Wall, Family Separation, Asylum Limitation. How did we get here? What...
7:00pm Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease read at Alley Cat Books 3036 24th Street San Francisco
Come out for a night of poetry! Tess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence, RI. Lite Year, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series, is her...
REBECCA TRAISTER In Conversation with Lara Bazelon Monday, February 4, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Nourse Theater Series: Special Events Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 Rebecca Traister is the author of Good and...