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  • December 2020
  • Sat 19
    December 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm PST

    James Sullivan – Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett (Virtual Event)

    In conversation with Tom Barbash Thursday, December 19, 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET • Virtual Event In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a thrilling and vividly...

  • Sun 20
    December 20, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST

    “A Christmas Memory” read by Thomas Lynch–virtually

    BYOF (Bring Your Own Fruitcake) and settle in for this traditional Mrs. Dalloway's event. This year it will be a bit different, like everything else:...

  • January 2021
  • Sat 2
    January 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

    Intro to Flash Fiction

    Virtual

    Surprise the Line presents a special one-time guest workshop led by experienced writers on a topic of their choosing every first Saturday of the month. This...

    $22
  • Mon 4
    January 4, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry

    Please join us for Poems to Make You Laugh & Cry, a special virtual event honoring the late local poet Peter McLaughlin. To evoke Pete, poets...

  • Tue 5
    January 5, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - February 23, 2021 @ 5:30 pm PST

    Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh – Continuing the Journey with Dante’s Purgatorio (via Zoom)

    Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. Dante and Virgil begin...

  • Tue 5
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    January 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club | Tue. Jan. 5 @ 7 PM PST Please join us...

  • Tue 5
    January 5, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 7 PM PST for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of My Year of Rest and Relaxation...

  • Wed 6
    January 6, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Alex Davies (Virtual Event)

    Alex Davies’ Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car tells the dramatic, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber,...

  • Wed 6
    January 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

  • Wed 6
    January 6, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Winter Reading Program Mixer

    VIRTUAL EVENT: WINTER READING PROGRAM MIXER Whether you are looking for your next read or just starting our Winter Reading Program, join our booksellers for a...

  • Fri 8
    January 8, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Words Out Loud Spoken Word Series

    MD, United States

    Imogen Arate and John Blair read from their poetry. Plus open mic and literary trivia quiz. Imogen Arate is an award-winning Asian-American poet and writer...

    Free
  • Sat 9
    January 9, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm PST

    Virtual Event: Danielle Hawa Tarigha

    JOIN US ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 12PM PT WHEN DANIELLE HAWA TARIGHA DISCUSSES HER BOOK, UPLIFT AND EMPOWER: A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING EXTREME POVERTY AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION ON...

  • Sat 9
    January 9, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Poetry & Short Stories Reading

    Join us for a virtual poetry & short stories reading featuring Brian Dempster (Seize), Caroline Kim (The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories), and...

  • Sun 10
    January 10, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

    Daniel Mason in Conversation with Diane Del Signore–virtually

    Discussing Mason's most recent book A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, winner of the Simpson Library Project Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California...

  • Mon 11
    January 11, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

    Online Intensive Literary Seminar Series – Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy What if the best way to end 2020 is to read “the greatest work of literature of all time”*?? Anna...

  • Mon 11
    January 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • Mon 11
    January 11, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: Now What?

    An Evening with the Editor and Contributors of Now What? The Voters Have Spoken—Essays on Life After Trump. Where Do We Go From Chaos? As Jon...

  • Tue 12
    January 12, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Gretchen Rubin (Virtual Event)

    Gretchen Rubin's most recent release, Outer Order, Inner Calm is a lovely, easy-to-use illustrated guide to decluttering that shows us how to take control of our stuff—and,...

  • Tue 12
    January 12, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Gina Apostol

    Join Gina Apostol and friends for the launch party of the first ever US publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award–winning novel Revolution According...

  • Wed 13
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    January 13, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

    Community Roundtable: Miss Chinatown

    Join the CHSA Community for a roundtable discussion on topics that impact our community on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! Our goal is...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    Story Time with Joanna Ho

    This is an online event Join us to celebrate the launch of Joanna Ho’s beautiful new picture book, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Robert Jones Jr. – The Prophets (Virtual Event)

    Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Berkeley Arts & Letters presents David P. Barash with David Livingstone Smith / Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents

    Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters are very pleased to host a virtual event with David P. Barash for his new book Threats: Intimidation and Its Dicontents. He'll be in conversation...

  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Women Lit presents Ann Patchett

    We are partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival to present a virtual event with bestselling author (and bookstore owner) Ann Patchett. Visit the Book...

    $15 – $30
  • Wed 13
    January 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Madeleine Watts

    Madeleine Watts discusses her highly anticipated debut novel, The Inland Sea (Catapult). "Full of heart and disquiet, astute and precise, almost savage in its eloquence, illuminated about...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 5:20 pm - 7:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL EVENT: LIVING WRITERS SERIES, Sofia Samatar

    The UCSC Literature Department and Creative Writing Program Present: LIVING WRITERS SERIES WINTER 2021 "Shelter and Place," a theme about world building when the world...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    VIRTUAL: Mary Ziegler with Becca Andrews / Abortion and the Law in America: Roe V. Wade to the Present

    Booksmith and Mother Jones are very pleased to host a virtual event with Mary Ziegler for her new book Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present....

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

    Conversations with Authors – Rameshwar Das (Virtual Event)

    Born Richard Alpert, Ram Dass was a prominent Harvard psychology professor who partnered with Timothy Leary in psychedelic research, and later traveled to India and met his...

  • Thu 14
    January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

    Kevin Begos in Conversation with Dan Polsby, Vintage Berkeley–virtually

    discussing Tasting the Past: One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines. "Takes readers along on a journey to find the historical origins...

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