Poets Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell present recent work, then engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public.
Daphne Merkin reads from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression.
Meg Elison presents the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.
Film and cultural studies professor Tom Zaniello discussses California's Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression Era Case That Divided Santa Clara County.
The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel, One Way Down (Or Another), just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us!
CLA presents Bryan Stevenson discussing his book Just Mercy.
Tim Dorsey presents his new book Clownfish Blues.
Daniel Handler discusses Three Masquerades, a collection of novellas by Rachel Ingalls.
Sigrid Carter presents her book, Amazing Women: 4 German Girls, 25,000+ of Miles, 18 Months 0 Money.
A free chapbook is available at Berkeley Public Library branches. Please pick one up!
From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes Setting Free the Kites, the powerful story of the unintended consequences that friendship, hope, and obsession impose on two families in crisis.
Deborah Crombie presents her book Garden of Lamentations.
Our theme: 'Decadent!'
This event is a fundraiser and celebration of the closing of our second year and the opening of a third as a community writing space that centers women.
Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS in San Francisco.
Join three local authors as they read from their latest work and discuss issues of immigration and identity.
Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos dicusses his new novel, I'll Sell You a Dog, with Mauro Javier Cardenas.
Ari Banias, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, and Cintia Santana read at Alley Cat Books in support of Ari Banias’s new book, Anybody.
Bill Hayes presents Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me.
L.A. Kaufman presents on his book Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.
Liz Cunningham presents her book Ocean Country.
Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English, Savage Theories.
Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of Invisible Tender and Counter-Amores.
A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls “the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected” of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.
Poets Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran read from new work, then engage with one another and their audience in conversation. Free and open to the public.
Eric Puchner will read from his newest collection of short stories Last Day on Earth.
3-5 minutes per poet/reader, or "just listening" is fine too :-)
A reading with Cristina García and Josh Mohr.
Join us for the Bay Area launch of Charif Shanahan's first full-length poetry collection, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing.
Kirill Medvedev is one of the most exciting, unpredictable voices on the Russian literary scene today.