Go on Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
This flagship event is one of the ways of expressing our deep authentic respect for Black literature and authors, reinvigorating our literary sisterhood, and providing a platform for new literary […]
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L.A. Grand Hotel 333 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
FeaturedThe Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and […]
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Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
FeaturedMechanics' Institutewith author Stevan Weine, M.D. A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems […]
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Improve Your Dialogue with Mysti Berry
FeaturedZoom CA, United StatesMysti Berry earned a BA in Linguistics from one of the top five undergrad programs in the country (UCSC), and “half an MFA” from UCLA. She has had short stories […]
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Outer Sunset: A Novel
FeaturedMechanics' InstituteOuter Sunset is a deeply felt story about the intimate place where we revise, or live without, our dreams. Jim Finley—a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge […]
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Crime Scene: Using Humor in Mysteries and Thrillers
FeaturedZoom CA, United StatesModerator: Michelle Chouinard/M.M. Chouinard, author of the Detective Jo Fournier series Panel: Heather Haven, award winning author of Hotshot Shamus, The Persephone Cole Vintage Mysteries Catriona McPherson, award winning author of Scot […]
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The Epicenter: Rita Chang-Eppig with Carolina De Robertis
FeaturedHotel Emblem 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJoin Litquake's Epicenter as we help launch Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, a riveting, roaring adventure story about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her […]
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Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)
FeaturedThe Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories, one of love, the other of art. In 1910, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired […]
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Hosting Word For Word
FeaturedAmerican Bookbinders MuseumOff the Page Staged readings that are the first step in Word for Word’s production process—taking a short story from the page to the stage. Join us for the first […]
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Arion Publication Party: Their Eyes Were Watching God
FeaturedArion PressCome out to the Arion Press and celebrate the release of our latest artist book: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston featuring artwork by Kenturah Davis. Join […]
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SF in SF with Fran Wilde and Henry Lien
FeaturedAmerican Bookbinders MuseumJoin us on Sunday, June 25, when writers Fran Wilde and Henry Lien meet for an evening of readings and conversation with Bay Area writer Cliff Winnig. Fran Wilde‘s first […]
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Teaching the History of the Book: A Roundtable
FeaturedZoom CA, United StatesTeaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd and featuring contributions from […]