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  • Porchlight Open Door

    Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Porchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September 2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet, receive...

  • Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in...

  • Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest

    Dog Eared Books Castro 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen, Ajuan Mance, Lee Marrs, and Joshua Trujillo

    Free

  • Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer

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

    Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco Alexandra Mattraw launches her...

  • Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad

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

    Laurie R. King, Island of the Mad Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 7:00pm Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes beloved and best-selling author Laurie R. King back...

  • Weekday Wanderlust

    mystic hotel 417 Stockton St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Hello Wanderlusters! It's coming that time again...the most wanderlust time of the year. Weekday DONderlust. Mark your calendar for Tuesday JUNE 12. It's our LAST...

  • Well-RED with features: ASHA and Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour

    Works/San José 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, United States

    at Works/San José 365 South Market Street in downtown San José doors open 6:30pm $2 admission, no one turned away Works is on the Market Street...

    $2

  • Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao

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

    Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - 7:30pm This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us...

  • Darnell L. Moore: Coming of Age Black & Free in America

    First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison St, Oakland , CA, United States

    KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present DARNELL L. MOORE "No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America" Hosted by...

    $12 – $15

  • Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade

    Books Inc. Berkeley 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus,...

  • Poetic Observations of a Black, Queer Young Man

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

    Southern Migrant Mixtape relays the experiences and observations of a black, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind...

  • Vi Khi Nao, Jennifer S. Cheng, and Rita Bullwinkel

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Wednesday, June 13, 2018 7:00 PM  9:00 PM Come celebrate new books by favorite writers! Jennifer S. Cheng's "MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS" (Tarpaulin Sky, May 2018)...

  • 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

  • Bookswap! Pride Edition

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    June is for Pride! So this month, we're asking you to bring, like, the queerest book you love. Maybe you love a lesbian road trip...

    $15

  • The Gender Creative Child with Diane Ehrensaft

    Nourse Theatre 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    City Arts & Lectures presents Diane Ehrensaft in conversation with Carvell Wallace.   Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D. is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco...

    $29

  • Roman Muradov

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

    Roman Muradov discusses his new book, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. Praise for On Doing Nothing “Roman Muradov’s whimsical, clever, and companionable book On Doing...

  • Tommy Orange

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

    Tommy Orange reading from There There published by Alfred Knopf Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a...

    Free

  • WHY THERE ARE WORDS SAUSALITO PRESENTS BODY LANGUAGE

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

    Join Why There Are Words on June 14, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Body Language.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin...

    $10

  • Poetry Flash presents Gillian Conoley and Paul Hoover

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    Gillian Conoley’s most recent book of poems is Peace. A. Anupama, in Numéro Cinq, wrote, “White space percolates this lyric, while the current lull in American military actions forms...

  • Maria Hummel and Sara Houghteling

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

    Maria Hummel discusses her new novel, Still Lives with  Sara Houghteling. Praise for Still Lives "Still Lives offers its readers that delicious combination of entertainment and brilliance. It's at...

  • Leslie Jonath

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

    Presents Foraged Art: Creating Projects Using Blooms, Branches, Leaves, Stones, and Other Elements Discovered in Nature. To reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Foraged Art by speaking...

  • Michael Eric Dyson: Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

    First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison St, Oakland , CA, United States

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present MICHAEL ERIC DYSON What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in...

    $20 – $45.

  • FEEL 6 Bookstore (AT THE CRANEWAY PAVILION)

    The Craneway Pavillion 1414 Harbour Way S, Richmond, CA, United States

    We are really thrilled to be showcasing our books and a curated selection of others as part of the FEELS 6 shop! FEELS is a...

    $30 – $100

  • Art, Readings, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning and Modern Eden

    Modern Eden Gallery 801 Greenwich St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the fourth annual Art, Readings, & Reactions event! ART: Curated by Modern Eden READINGS: Curated...

  • Tommy Orange presents his debut novel, THERE THERE (w/ R.O. Kwon)

    East Bay Booksellers 5433 College Avenue, Oakland

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome Tommy Orange to discuss his jaw-droppingly good debut novel,There There on Friday, June 15th at 7pm. Tommy will be in conversation...