Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse,
Berkeley
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking...
Richmond literary arts events
Amanda Palmer -- The Art of Asking
Friday, Nov 21
8:00p
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Winter 2014 Cookbook Extravaganza!
Sunday, Dec 7
1:00p
Diesel, A Bookstore,
Oakland
Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland invites you to our Winter Cookbook Extravaganza on Sunday, December 7th at 1pm...
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...
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series
Thursday, Nov 13
7:00p
Studio 333 Gallery,
Sausalito
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents compelling readings of magnetic force on the theme of "Gravity" by the following authors:
Julia Fierro, Molly Giles, Don Mitchell, Antonya Nels...
Katie Gilmartin - Blackmail, My Love
Sunday, Nov 16
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Katie Gilmartin dug deeply into the annals of San Francisco’s storied past to produce Blackmail, My Love, a brilliantly conceived and artfully illustrated murder mystery that serves as a revelatory...
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...
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...
Shiva Rea at Book Passage, Corte Madera
Friday, Nov 21
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Tending the Heart Fire, the first book by pioneering yogini Shiva Rea, is an invitation to embody our extraordinary potential, to reconnect your life to the rhythms of your body and the natural wor...
Anne Lamott - Small Victories
Tuesday, Nov 11
7:00p
Book Passage Bookstore,
Corte Madera
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark...
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