Tania Amochaev: One Hundred Years of Exile
In "One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father’s Russia" San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through one...
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HIGH DAWN 3: BURGER / ALMEIDA / JACOBSEN / WATKINS
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium RSVP for Zoom link: spt-nov.eventbrite.com Mary Burger is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland CA....
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ZAZA Sixteen
Weekly Zoom performance series "for the foreseeable future." ZAZA SIXTEEN is Taylor Johnson and Edmund Berrigan Friday, November 20, 6 pm PST / 8 pm...
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Virtual Event: Simon Han and Meng Jin
Join us on Friday, November 20 at 6pm PST when Simon Han discusses his debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened, with Meng Jin on Zoom! Preorder here and receive a...
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TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
Bookshop Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and Marcus Books present: A virtual event with Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation with Adam Serwer, on Friday, November...
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VIRTUAL: Wall + Response: Heather Bourbeau, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Aileen Cassinetto & Chris Stroffolino
Booksmith and The Bindery are proud to host a four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to...
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Facing You: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19
From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. Facing You is a collection of love...
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Chinese Workers & the Pacific Salmon Canning Industry
Join CHSA in welcoming brothers Jim & Philip Chiao for an exploration into the history of Chinese in the Pacific salmon canning industry. In 1852,...
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Jingletown Reading ft. Tongo Eisen-Martin, William Archila, Barbara Jane Reyes
JT ft Tongo Eisen-Martin, William Archila, Barbara Jane Reyes Named after the Fruitvales’s historic neighborhood in Oakland, Jingletown Reading & Open Mic is a monthly...
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Conversations with Authors – Deborah Madison (Virtual Event)
Deborah Madison’s An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables is a warm, bracingly honest memoir that gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. Deborah...
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Conversations with Authors – Jamie Ritchie (Virtual Event)
Jamie Ritchie, head of Sotheby’s wine, is proud to present The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia, an essential reference for oenophiles—long used as the go-to text for...
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Under the Dome: Paul Celan at 100 Celebration
a reading and discussion of the great Romanian-born poet Paul Celan on the occasion of his 100th birthday with Judith Butler, Fady Joudah, and more guests TBD...
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WL #UNBOUND: Poised to Soar: Nature-Writing Sensation Helen Macdonald with Vesper Flights
Tuesday, November 24 at 7:00 PM | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Environment/Nature Women/Gender Camille T. Dungy, Helen Macdonald Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir H is For Hawk, a transcendent...
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | GGP Online Book Club
Please join us on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Brit Bennett's new novel, THE...
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A Celebration of Kathleen’s 15 Year GGP Anniversary
A Great Good Place for Books 6120 La Salle Ave., Oakland, CaliforniaFifteen years ago, Kathleen became the owner of A Great Good Place for Books. On this Saturday, we'll celebrate Kathleen throughout the day. Please come...
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Saturday Night Special presents: Silver Linings
Well friends, 2020 has been a hell of a year. And here we are, almost at the end of it. Join me this traditional season...
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Daily Write Holiday Round Robin with Kathy Garlick
This particular version of Round Robin with a run time of three weeks is built with the holidays in mind. It is designed to offer writers a...
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The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics, Forgiveness & Reconciliation with Dr. Marlena Fiol and Dr. Joshua Coleman (Virtual Event)
Marlena Fiol, author of Nothing Bad Between Us, will be in conversation with renowned author Joshua Coleman in a very special virtual event. Join them on Sunday, November...
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Online Evening Literary Seminar: A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin Lucía Berlin’s short stories have caused more than one critic to call her “America’s best kept secret.” Born...
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Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
onlineJoin us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...
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Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...
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Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
Join us on Monday, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book, Seeing Stevie Ray, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on...
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Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic
Editor Alice Quinn is joined by contributors to the anthology, Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf), for this special virtual poetry...
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Writing the Virus with Caille Millner, Jon Roemer, David Dario Winner, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
Writing the Virus, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism,...
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Writing the Virus with Caille Millner, Jon Roemer, David Dario Winner, and Oscar Villalon (Virtual Event)
Writing the Virus, the first anthology to explore the human effects of the pandemic, parses the virus as it hits a society polarized by racism,...
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December Manuscript Intensive Program
Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape. In this month-long one-on-one...
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Best Kids Books of the Year Presentation
Join Bookshop's interim head Children's buyer as she shares Bookshop's picks for the Best Kids Books of the Year! From picture books to middle grade, graphic novels...
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Sabaa Tahir with J. Elle
Fans of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling Ember Quartet rejoice - the wait is almost over. We are launching Sabaa’s highly anticipated jaw...
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VIRTUAL: Headlands Center for the Arts / Ari Banias, Vincent Chu, Tomas Moniz, Shelley Wong & Hazel White
Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to partner with the Headlands Center for the Arts to present an evening of readings by Ari Banias, Vincent Chu, Tomas...
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Digging Deep: A Generative Writing Workshop with Lee Romer Kaplan
We’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or...
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