Wednesday 4/10: Don’t miss this week’s Local Book Pick event! Brian Fies will be reading from A Fire Story, a graphic novel retelling of his experiences during the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Moe’s Books in Berkeley at 7 p.m.
Celebrate authors from The Ruby, a San Francisco space for creative women! Reading at this event will be Melissa Graeber, Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift), Aku Ammah-Tagoe, Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias), and Helen Shewolfe Tseng (The Astrological Grimoire). Warby Parker in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be reading from his newest book, Minutes of Glory and Other Stories. City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Join Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, hosts of the New York Times’s Still Processing podcast, for City Arts and Lectures. Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. ($35, tickets required).
Thursday 4/11: Why There Are Words presents Familiar! Join Jasmin Darznik (Song of a Captive Bird), Yalitza Ferreras, Christina Hoag (Skin of Tattoos), Miah Jeffra (The First Church of What’s Happening), Kimberly Kruge (Ordinary Chaos), and Rolf Yngve (Dog Watches) for a night of readings. Studio 333 in Sausalito at 7 p.m. ($10, tickets required).
Susan Choi will be reading from her newest novel, Trust Exercise. Book Passage in Corte Madera at 7 p.m.
Friday 4/12: Former Local Book Pick author Namwali Serpell will be reading from her much-lauded debut novel, The Old Drift. Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore in Berkeley at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 4/13: Alexandria Brown will be reading from Hidden History of Napa Valley. Learn about Napa’s first Chinatown, its African-American farmers, and the Bracero Program! Copperfield’s Books in Napa at 6 p.m.
Sunday 4/14: Enjoy a reading and a wine tasting! Sloane Crosley will be reading from her new collection, Look Alive Out There. Scribe Winery in Sonoma at 6 p.m. ($35–$50, tickets required).
Monday 4/15: Nick Thorkelson will be reading from his new graphic biography Herbert Marcuse: Philosopher of Utopia. Thorkelson will be joined in conversation by Andrew T. Lamas. Moe’s Books in Berkeley at 7 p.m.
Poets Shauna Hannibal (Hannibal), Fernando Martí, and Zack Rogow (Irreverent Litanies) will be reading from new work as well as the poems of Lawrence Ferlinghetti as part of the Ferlinghetti at 100 celebrations! Folio Books in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Tim Johnston will be reading from his newest novel, The Current. Book Passage in Corte Madera at 7 p.m.
Tuesday 4/16: New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb will be in conversation with Hilton Als as part of City Arts and Lectures. Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. ($29, tickets required).
Mui Poopoksakul will be discussing her translation of Duanwad Pimwana’s Bright, the first novel by a Thai woman to appear in English translation. Poopoksakul will be in conversation with Saskia Vogel and Laura Goode. The Bindery in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Young (Brown), Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New Yorker Poetry Editor will be reading as part of Stanford’s Lane Lecture Series. Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall at Stanford University at 8 p.m.
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LOCAL BOOK PICK: This week’s Local Book Pick is Brian Fies’s A Fire Story! Don’t miss his reading at Moe’s Books on 4/10.
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