• VIRTUAL: Cory Doctorow / Attack Surface

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Cory Doctorow for his new book Attack Surface, a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Please...

  • Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic

    Nomadic Press/Fairmount 111 Fairmount Ave, Oakland, CA

    A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in "The Chapel" at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided...

  • THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar

    ZOOOM

    THE RACKET READING SERIES: TOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR ZOOM LINK TO COME! We're doing a weekly reading series. And this week, oooooh weeee, are...

    Free
  • Terry Tempest Williams

    Bestselling author Terry Tempest Williams joins us to discuss her lastest book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Picador). This event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. REGISTER HERE....

  • Poetry for Life with Katharine Harer

    “Poetry is a life companion,” says instructor Katharine Harer. “People come and go, pets die, places change, but poetry doesn’t go away because it’s already...

    $75.00
  • Chinatown Pretty Book Talk

    Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns located in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City,...

  • Conversations with Authors – Pico Iyer (Virtual Event)

    Pico Iyer’s A Beginner’s Guide to Japan draws on his years of experience—his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to craft a playful and profound book of surprising, brief,...

  • PREMIERE Watch Party & Community Conversation

    Sponsored by the @Dimond Improvment Association and Oakland’s awesome @Oaktoberfest Street festival, the premiere event (on ZOOM & Vimeo) will include an exclusive viewing of...

  • Colossus: Home Reading

    Kelliane Parker Susan Dambroff Keith M. Gaboury Daniel Ari Elaine de Coligny Phyllis  Houseman noemi rose (Gonzalez-Barillas)

  • Conversations with Authors – Lan Cao (Virtual Event)

    Lan Cao’s dual first-person memoir, Family in Six Tones—co-authored with her American daughter Harlan Margaret Van Cao—explores their complicated relationship, culture clash, and how they have...

  • Poetry Mentorship with Brian Tierney

    This remote poetry “class” offers a unique opportunity for personal and intimate poetry instruction. Students will work with Brian Tierney one-on-one, via written correspondence over...

    $745.00
  • Namwali Serpell with Carmen Maria Machado

    This event is online. Exciting literary talent and the author behind 2019’s The Old Drift, Kepler’s is proud to present a discussion with Namwali Serpell...

  • Deborah Madison, An Onion in My Pocket

    Acclaimed and bestselling culinary author Deborah Madison (Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone) will join us for a virtual event to share An Onion in My Pocket, her warm, bracingly...

  • Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion

    online

    Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editor of Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,” a story about...

    $10.00
  • Gary Kamiya with Paul Madonna

    celebrating their new book Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City published by Bloomsbury Books From two bestselling, prizewinning, and critically acclaimed contemporary...

  • Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)

    Ale Industries 3096 E 10th Street, Oakland, CA, United States

    12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. We're headed...

  • Yotam Ottolenghi – Ottolenghi Flavor (Virtual Event)

    The New York Times bestselling author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ innovative, super-delicious, plant-based...

  • Beast Generation Uprising

    online

    Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast....

    Free