Great Good Gifts for the Holidays #5: Gifts for the Hard-To-Shop-For
Please join us on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 7 PM PST for staff recommendations on gifts for the hard-to-shop-for on your list in this last episode...
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Virtual Class: Don George – Fine-Tune Your Travel Tale: Advanced Writing Workshop (via Zoom)
This workshop is designed for writers who have an already finished travel story of up to 3,000 words that they would like to workshop and...
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Zoom Forward! Andrew Fague, Dan Phillips & Pat Zylius
VIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Andrew Fague, Dan Phillips, and Pat Zylius, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series hosted by poet, fiction writer, and...
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How to Get Published in Recommended Reading
CrowdcastAbout a third of the stories published in Recommended Reading are unsolicited submissions, which share space in the magazine with work by Pulitzer Prize...
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Andrea & Edmund Read You Art Out Loud
onlineAndrea Passwater's "We Sing" (The Rumpus) and Edmund Zagorin's "Year Are Sentences" (Rabid Oak Review) are out soon in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020....
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Arthur A. Levine on Instagram IGTV!
reading The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol, a new larger-than-life holiday hero who brings Hanukkah wonder and generosity to anyone in need! "A new, entertaining, and thoughtful...
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Eastwind Book Club | She Weeps Each Time You’re Born
Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to...
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Patrick Earl Ryan in conversation with Jewelle Gomez
onlineNew Orleans native PATRICK EARL RYAN and writer, icon, and activist JEWELLE GOMEZ discuss writing, queerness, and If We Were Electric Join us for a...
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Conversations with Authors – Jane Smiley (Virtual Event)
Jane Smiley’s latest novel, Perestroika in Paris, is a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris. Jane is...
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Safety & The First Amendment – Holiday Fundraiser
onlineThe San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) will host its annual holiday fundraiser online this year and it is dedicated to the intriguing theme of...
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MandoMeet
Join CHSA for a chance to learn Mandarin with specialist Kathy Yang! Kathy is an expert Mandarin teacher. For our MandoMeet sessions, all levels of...
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VIRTUAL: Claire Marie Stancek with Dan Beachy-Quick & Jennifer Firestone / wyrd] bird
Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Claire Marie Stancek for her new book of poems, wyrd] bird. She's joined by Dan Beachy-Quick and Jennifer...
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Conversations with Authors – David Harris (Virtual Event)
David Harris’s newest release, My Country ‘Tis of Thee: Reporting, Sallies, and Other Confessions is a wide-ranging and incisive anthology conveying the spirit of the 1960s and '70s....
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How to Pitch Electric Lit
CrowdcastFor freelancers, writing an essay, feature, or opinion piece doesn’t start when you type the first line. It starts with the pitch. Having a topic...
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Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander: A celebration of Angels & Saints
Eliot Weinberger, called "one of the world's greatest essayists" by the New York Times, is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander to...
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Alta Asks Live: Lynell George
Alta Asks Live: Lynell George Wednesday, December 16 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time Octavia E. Butler’s work is as relevant as ever, and her journey...
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Conversations with Authors – Ruby Bridges (Virtual Event)
From civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges comes a powerful new book, This Is Your Time—the first book from Bridges in over twenty years, released to coincide...
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How to Get Published in The Commuter
CrowdcastUnlike most literary magazines, The Commuter chooses its weekly piece of poetry, flash, graphic, or experimental narrative almost exclusively from unsolicited submissions—9 out of 10...
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WALTER MOSLEY IN CONVERSATION WITH CBC HOST JOHN FREEMAN
Devil in a Blue Dress BY WALTER MOSLEY Mosley’s celebrated 1990 novel introduces readers to Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a World War II veteran who turns...
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HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jamie Townsend, Topazu, Subset
onlineSmall Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 Readings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith Introduced by Jamie Townsend Music...
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Elif Shafak
reading and discussing her new novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World published by Bloomsbury Books ---- This is a virtual event that...
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James Sullivan – Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)
In conversation with Tom Barbash Thursday, December 19, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly...
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“A Christmas Memory” read by Thomas Lynch–virtually
BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway's event. This year it will be a bit different, like everything else:...
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Intro to Flash Fiction
VirtualSurprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This...
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Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry
Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete, poets...
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Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh – Continuing the Journey with Dante’s Purgatorio (via Zoom)
Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. Dante and Virgil begin...
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST Please join us...
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation...
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Conversations with Authors – Alex Davies (Virtual Event)
Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber,...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer
VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...