• GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets, artists, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. To participate in...

  • Poverty Scholarship 101

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

    with Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and friends Poverty Scholarship - Poor People-led Theory, Art , Words and Tears Across Mama Earth is a revolutionary poor people-led theory...

  • A MOVEABLE FEAST

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We'll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you...

  • Red Light Lit: Harmon Guest House

    Harmon Guest House 227 Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, CA

    Celebrate Valentine's Day a little early with Red Light Lit on the rooftop of Harmon Guest House in Healdsburg, CA. Spend the day roaming wine...

    $20
  • The Diesel Readers Book Group – – Radio Free Vermont

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

    East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group's discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. As the host of Radio...

  • Kim Hyesoon, Don Mee Choi, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman

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

    Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of  Death, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest...

    Free
  • Roger McNamee: This Is Now with Angie Coiro

    Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park , CA, United States

    The warnings are coming from inside the house. Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Roger McNamee are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley's inner...

    $15 – $45
  • Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan: Women, Ritual, Ecology in India

    First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

    KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents VANDANA SHIVA + VIJAYA NAGARAJAN Women, Ritual, Ecology in India advance tickets: $12: :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3...

    $12 – $15
  • My Life, My Stories: Real life. Told by SF seniors.

    The Bindery 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , United States

    Join us for an evening of learning and listening, hosted byMy Life, My Stories and sponsored by Blurb Books!   My Life, My Stories is a...

    $12
  • Happy Endings: Trust, Betrayal, Cheetos

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. What's gonna happen? Five writers...

    $10
  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer

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

    MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...

  • Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF

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

    MB Austin, Giovanna Capone, Kathy Knowles, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco, Tuesday, February 12, 7pm-8:30pm at...

    Free
  • Joyce Carol Oates

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

    reading from here new novel Hazards of Time Travel published by Harper Collins An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints...

  • Sisters in Crime

    Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church 728 Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale

    You are invited to join Sunnyvale-Cupertino Branch for an interesting panel discussion by "Sisters in Crime." Refreshments will be served. Books will be available to...

    $15
  • Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island

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

    Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. Praise for Wild Geese Sorrow “Jeffrey Thomas...

    Free
  • Reimagining Labor Law

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Reimagining Labor Law Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Transformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions...

    $10
  • Reimagining Labor Law

    Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, United States

    Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse Transformation of work through the gig economy and through the decline of unions presents unprecedented challenges...

    $10
  • Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club

    San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical, thought-provoking contemporary...

    Free
  • Freud’s Bar – – All the Jazz w/Henry Markman, MD

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

    EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud's Bar on Wednesday, February 13th at 6:30pm. This week Henry Markmanwill present All That Jazz: The Therapy...

  • Tara Conklin, The Last Romantics

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

    The New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl explores the lives of four siblings in this ambitious and absorbing novel in the vein of Commonwealth and The Interestings. “Tara Conklin...

    Free
  • Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya

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

    We’re really excited to host two amazing, accomplished, dynamic writers and thinkers, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC where...

  • Reema Zaman

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

    Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir, I Am Yours. Praise for I Am Yours “Tender, fierce, compassionate, and wise . . . a moving story about...

    Free
  • MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer

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

     Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Michael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton, California, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city...

    $29
  • Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House

    Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 2550 Mission Street, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present Barry Gifford in a talk and film screening celebrating the release of Southern Nights, Night People, Arise...