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  • All the Sweeter

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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

    The Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, United States

        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: Lights, Camera, Fashun

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

  • Sixteen Rivers Anthology Celebration

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    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

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

  • Cliterary Salon: Mothers and Monsters of May

    Perdita 323 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA

    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...

    $12

  • An Evening with Tony Horwitz: Spying on the South

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    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...

  • Bawdy Storytelling ‘UNICORNFEST’

    Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    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...

    $25 – $35

  • Babylon Salon : Rachel Howard, Kristen Cosby, Cheryl Ossola: Summer 2019

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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...

    Free

  • Ages 7 up! Jane Solomon and Tyler Schnoebelen in Conversation

    Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

    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...

  • READING Anna Moschovakis and Tonya Foster

    Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    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

  • STACEY ABRAMS In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    STACEY ABRAMS In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal Sunday, May 19, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Special Events Tickets Sold Out! Stacey Abrams is an author, serial...

    SOLD OUT

  • Max Porter

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    celebrating the release of Lanny: a novel from Graywolf Press "An exhilarating, disquieting, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of...

  • You’re Doing What? Older Women’s Tales

    Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue, BERKELEY

    Tuesday, May 21, 2019 7:00 PM Location:  In the basement 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley YOU'RE DOING WHAT? Older Women's Tales of Achievement and Adventure, Compiled...

  • Memorial Tribute to Linda Gregg

    Falkirk Cultural Center 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, United States

    Falkirk Cultural Center This tribute celebrates Linda Gregg’s life and work, with poems and stories from poets and friends. Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander,...

  • Megan Griswold discusses The Book of Help

    Pegasus Books Downtown 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, United States

    Tuesday, May 21, 7:30pm Pegasus Books Downtown Megan Griswold discusses and signs copies of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. “In a world full...

  • THE RACKET!

    Adobe Books 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Details soon! Hosted by Noah B. Sanders

  • Edgar Kunz

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Edgar Kunz joins us to discuss his debut poetry collection, Tap Out . Praise for Tap Out “A whirlwind debut.Stories of sclerotic lives told in wrought images, Kunz...

  • Music of Remembrance Presents “The Parting”

    San Francisco Conservatory of Music 50 Oak Street, San Francisco

    A new chamber opera by composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason commissioned by Music of Remembrance about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti. Starring: baritone Michael...

    $60 – $75

  • GEORGE PACKER In Conversation with Clara Jeffery

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    GEORGE PACKER In Conversation with Clara Jeffery Thursday, May 23, 2019, 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater Series: Social Studies  Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 Longtime staff writer...

    $29