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  • 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

    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

  • Third Man Books Night @ City Lights

    Celebrating three awesome new books!      Third Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White's Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three...

  • VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago

    Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican's new collection, Central Air. Join...

  • Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery

    online

    John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van, Universal Harvester, the Mountain Goats), Leah Johnson (You Should See Me in a Crown), Daniel Lavery (Something That May...

    $10.00

  • Berkeley Poetry Festival

    The Berkeley Poetry Festival is a City of Berkeley sponsored celebration of the city's poets. We honor a local poet with a Lifelong Achievement award...

  • Funeral Diva

    A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that...

  • Azadeh Moaveni and Salar Abdoh

    Discussing the intersections of their new books ReTargeting Iran published by City Lights Books & Out of Mesopotamia published by Akashic Books --------- This is...

  • Jumpstart Your Memoir Writing! with Kerry Muir

    Have you ever experienced the nagging feeling you ought to be writing down your life stories, but have simply lacked the time and the tools...

    $295.00