Poetry Express presents a reading by John Garry, hosted by Jim Barnard, open mic, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians. Enjoy...
Charlie Jane Anders, Sara Cahill Marron, Joseph Cassara, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez read from their new books at Perfectly Queer San Francisco on Tuesday, May 14,...
Young Adults 14-17! Elizabeth Acevedo presents With the Fire on High, a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed...
Julie Orringer (The Invisible Bridge) joins Michael Chabon (Moonglow) for a conversation about The Flight Portfolio, Orringer’s new historical novel set in occupied Europe and...
About the Book Sebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major who’s as much a connoisseur of members...
Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel, Walking on the Ceiling. Praise for Walking on the Ceiling “Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes...
Red Light Lit is a mashup of photography, poetry, and prose set to a live score, featuring the photography of Brittany Powers. The reading explores...
Litquake and MoAD present... Namwali Serpell’s electrifying debut, THE OLD DRIFT, is the first novel ever to tell the story of Zambia from its very beginnings to the present...
celebrating the release of her new novel Permission published by Coach House Books A grieving young woman learns something new about love from a dominatrix...
JARED DIAMOND In Conversation with Roy Eisenhardt Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Social Studies Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Jared Diamond is a...
David Randall discusses his new book, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague. Praise for Black Death at...
Wednesday, May 15, 7:30pm This Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of...
Michael Kroll is a prolific writer; he has published numerous magazine and newspaper pieces, some award-winning, most of which focus on our own criminal justice...
Mike Boughn + Sunnylyn Thibodeaux - poets!
reading from and discussing her new novel The Old Drift from Hogarth Books On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the...
Jean Minton joins us to discuss her book All the Sweeter: Families Share Their Stories of Adopting from Foster Care. About All The Sweeter All the...
InsideStorytime QUIDDITIES, featuring Sarah Stone (Hungry Ghost Theater), Lynn Breedlove (Forty-Five Thought Crimes), Vincent Chu (Like A Champion), Cheryl Ossola (The Wild Impossibility), and others, will occur at Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster...
HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...
Heather Hansman discusses her new book, Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West. Praise for Down River “Heather Hansman’s account of her 730-mile solo...
America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from...
Lara Prior-Palmer: Rough Magic 05/17/2019 - 6:00pm Creative Nonfiction Reading/Talk At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse...
Emma Bland Smith discusses her new children's book To Live on an Island. About To Live on an Island When you live on an island, things...
Join us as we dig into all that is May: flowers, fantasy, mothers, monsters, poetry and pettiness. Hosted at Perdita in the Haight, this is...
The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
Friday, May 17th, 2019 at the Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco CA Remember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM, Stories at 8 PM...
Babylon Salon presents our Summer Reading Saturday, May 18, 2019, 6.00 pm at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street (downstairs performance space) featuring -- Rachel Howard (The...
Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation launching The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits! To...
Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Amanda Moore, Ken Haas, Janey Jennings, and Barb Reynolds, curated by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Restaurant, 1369 Solano...
READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster May 19, 2019 7:00 PM Artists' Television Access 992 valencia street, san francisco, ca FREE Free for members