Diesel, A Bookstore,
Oakland
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland invites you to our Winter Cookbook Extravaganza on Sunday, December 7th at 1pm...
Oakland literary arts events
Winter 2014 Cookbook Extravaganza!
Sunday, Dec 7
1:00p
PEN Oakland Literary Awards
Saturday, Dec 6
1:00p
The 24th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards. Each year PEN Oakland presents awards to outstanding book titles published in the previous year...
Third Annual East Bay Anarchist Book & Conversation Event
Sunday, Dec 7
10:00a
Humanist Hall,
Oakland
The East Bay Anarchist Bookfair will be at the Humanist Hall, 390 27th St. Oakland, Dec 7, 10-8...
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland- Kiera Butler discusses and signs "Raise
Thursday, Nov 13
7:00p
Diesel, A Bookstore,
Oakland
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Kiera Butler to the store to discuss and sign her new book, Raise: What 4-H Teaches Seven Million Kids and How Its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Fore...
Amanda Palmer -- The Art of Asking
Friday, Nov 21
8:00p
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse,
Berkeley
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking...
Rachel Saunders presents "Blue Chair Cooks with Jam & Marmalade"
Wednesday, Nov 19
7:30p
Mrs. Dalloway's,
Berkeley
Far from a narrow look at obvious ways to incorporate jam, this is a rich and wide-ranging general cookbook for every day...
Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Talks with Robert Hass About the Prince of Los Cocuyos
Thursday, Nov 13
7:30p
Hillside Club,
Berkeley
Richard Blanco has straddled many worlds...
Vikram Chandra reads from "Geek Sublime"
Thursday, Nov 13
5:00p
UC Berkeley Doe Library,
Berkeley
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist...
Chloe Benjamin reads from "The Anatomy of Dreams"
Thursday, Nov 20
7:30p
Mrs. Dalloway's,
Berkeley
Sylvie, a student at a California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited classmate named Gabe. Their headmaster, Dr...
Story Hour in the Library featuring Vikram Chandra
Thursday, Nov 13
5:00p
Morrison Library inside of Doe library,
Berkeley
Vikram Chandra is the author of 2014’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, as well as Sacred Games, Love and Longing in Bombay, and Red Earth and Pouring Rain...
Story Hour in the Library featuring Tom Barbash
Thursday, Dec 4
5:00p
Morrison Library inside of Doe library,
Berkeley
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. Tom Barbash is the author of the new book of stories Stay Up With Me...
Howard Gossage: "Changing the World is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man" by Steve Harrison
Thursday, Nov 13
7:00p
The Beat Museum,
San Francisco
Steve Harrison, author of "Changing the World is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man," discusses the life and times of HOWARD LUCK GOSSAGE, "America's most innovative, influential and irreverent adve...
Lindsay Grant presents "Sleeps with Dogs"
Tuesday, Nov 11
7:30p
Mrs. Dalloway's,
Berkeley
Go behind closed doors and discover the secret lives of some of the most devoted pet owners, whether they're feeding their dogs home-cooked meals or leaving Animal Planet on all day to keep their p...
Michael Alexander Kahn - Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be
Thursday, Nov 13
6:00p
Book Passage,
San Francisco
Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was America’s first successful humor magazine and its most influential...
Ferry Building Book Club: Brian Payton - The Wind is Not a River
Wednesday, Nov 12
12:00p
Book Passage,
San Francisco
The Ferry Building book club will discuss a WWII novel about the little-known Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, told through the stories of the journalist stranded there and his wife, who ...
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