Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as…
Please note: this event has been cancelled. Booksmith hosts Cathy Park Hong for her new book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged,…
Celebrate the release of Disasterama!: Adventures in The Queer Underground 1977 – 1997 by Alvin Orloff. A compelling and hilarious memoir of social life in…
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world…
The 5th Noe Valley Authors Festival will feature local authors like best-selling novelist Cara Black, award-winning historian and war correspondent Mary Jo McConahay, children’s book…
For the third year, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby, now co-sponsored by…
Join Why There Are Words on December 13, 2018, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when eight acclaimed authors read from their works to help us…
Memoirs are hot right now! At Memoir & Prosecco, local authors of different types of memoir will read from their work. Following the readings, moderator…
I walked a couple of miles to a gallery downtown to hear some people read from their memoirs. These are writers with an ink-stained past…
For the third year now, the Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland is putting together a benefit called Notes & Words, an event that combines writers and musicians on…