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Tommy Orange reading from There There, published by Alfred Knopf. Opening statement by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. Not since Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary Read More ...

Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky reading from new works. Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. She wrote, directed and starred in her poetic short film Burning which was produced by BAFTA-winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her Read More ...

Feminist Press in conjunction with Asian American Writers’ Workshop present a book release party for Go Home!, edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan with foreword from Viet Thanh Nguyen, published by The Feminist Press. Opening statement by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan with Read More ...

Lynne Tillman presents her novel, Men and Apparitions, from Soft Skull Press. Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for Read More ...

Vegas Tenold discussing his new book Everything You Love Will Burn published by Nation Books. Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, Read More ...

Joseph Lease reading from his new poetry collection The Body Ghost from Coffee House Press. Spare, airy, exacting poems whose quietness is often at an ironic counterpoint to their fiery leftist politics. “Promise me the rich can’t sleep,” Joseph Lease Read More ...

Our release party for the new vinyl box set of Howl and Other Poems from Craft Recordings with Bill Belmont, Dennis McNally, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, and more. Craft Recordings, the Catalog division of Concord Music, is pleased Read More ...

Joyce Carol Oates reading from her new short-fiction collection Beautiful Days from Harper Collins. The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their Read More ...

Jenn Pelly in conversation with Greil Marcus about The Raincoats, presented in conjunction with City Lights and the Rock and Roll Book Club of San Francisco, celebrating a new edition in the 33 & 1/3 series, The Raincoats, by Jenn Read More ...

Michael Hardt in conversation with Joshua Clover discussing Michael Hardt’s new book Assembly co-authored with Antonio Negri published Oxford University Press. Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: an Apprenticeship Read More ...