Readings by Micah Ballard, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jenn Alandy Trahan, and Kathleen Winter Hosted by Peter Kline Micah Ballard is author of three full-length collections...
Artist, poet, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at...
Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry.
Our 116th show!
KQED’s own pledge-master, Bud Gundy, recently published a new book, Somewhere Over Lorain Road, a mystery set in suburban Ohio. A gay man who had...
Book Release Party for Girls Burn Brighter published by Flatiron Books.
Shobha Rao Book Release Party for Girls Burn Brighter published by Flatiron Books A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of...
Reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien."
In The Future of Humanity, Dr. Michio Kaku —#1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind — traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to...
Joyce Carol Oates reads from her new collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, which includes the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol...
Bonnie Siegler discusses her new book, Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America with Roman Mars. About Signs of Resistance In hundreds of iconic,...
Reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press.
Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic...
Local writers Cara Black, Andrew McIntyre, and Anne Raeff read passages from their works that discuss food, cooking, and eating. Hosted by Olive This Olive...
An open mic follows the featured readers.
Solmaz Sharif, author of Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) and a National Book Award finalist, reads from her poetry and essays.
Join us for our monthly poetry series celebrating the Latinidad of the Latino Cultural District.
Our celebration of International Women's Day will be led by three powerful women reading from their work and talking about how their writing has empowered...
Discussing his new book Everything You Love Will Burn published by Nation Books.
Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Patton Oswalt to Public Works SF to discuss his late wife Michelle McNamara's book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive...
His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.
Madame Nielsen w/ Scott Esposito.
Madame Nielsen discusses their new novel, The Endless Summer with Scott Esposito. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. Praise for The Endless Summer "The Endless Summer by...
The Bindery is excited to host Lee Bruno presenting his new book, Misfits, Merchants & Mayhem: Tales from San Francisco's Historic Waterfront, 1849-1934—join us! The waterfront...
Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He...
Memoirs are hot right now! At Memoir & Prosecco, local authors of different types of memoir will read from their work. Following the readings, moderator...
Poet, essayist and Yale Divinity School professor Christian Wiman will be featured at an event called the “The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art”...
Local authors exhibit their books for sale and signing from 1pm to 5pm. Readings by some of the authors exhibiting occur at 2pm, 3pm, and...