Outer 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 of San Francisco—has been set,...
Read Morewith 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 of the 20th Century. Allen Ginsberg’s 1956...
Read MoreJoin us for an evening of laughter and storytelling! Local author and host of “The Moth,” Corey Rosen, returns to Mechanics’ Institute with storytellers and stand up comedians that have developed new material...
Read MoreJoin 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 fight to save her fleet from the...
Read MoreThe 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 in life and love. Known among their...
Read MoreA Left-Handed Woman, Judith Thurman’s first book in 15 years, gathers many of her most beloved essays and profiles from The New Yorker, ranging across a variety of topics – from fashion, literature, and music, to history,...
Read MoreJane Smiley fans, get excited! The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s forthcoming book, The Questions that Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom, explores a number of provocations around class, race, and gender...
Read MoreHeyday Books is proud to present a Point Reyes Birding Walk with Keith Hansen, author of Birds of Point Reyes. We will begin our walk at Point Reyes’ iconic Bovine Bakery, and from there Keith will lead us on an adventure of...
Read MoreJoin Litquake’s Epicenter as we help launch MariNaomi’s new graphic memoir, I Thought You Loved Me, a multimedia exploration of the expectations of friendship, the unreliability of memory, and the struggle to let go....
Read MoreAn American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, by Benjamin Madley, is the first full account of the government sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule. It has...
Read MoreJoin author and napkin collector Patrick Quinn and designer J. Eric Lynxwiler for a fabulous tour of cocktail culture in the Golden State as they discuss their book Bar Keeps. Do you know how the cocktail got its name? Ever...
Read MoreA colorful compilation of inspiring and unfathomable stories woven together by humor, pathos, confluences of fate, and the eternal guiding hands of the author’s ancestors. Debbie Chinn begins this colorful memoir by...
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