Wednesday 2/19: A stage production of Octavio Solis’s memoir, Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border, opens in San Francisco at Z Space at 7 p.m. (tickets $53–$63).
The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop of Oakland (and friends) along with members of the Black Speculative Arts Movement Oakland Chapter will read from their speculative projects at the San Francisco Public Library at 5 p.m.
Catana Chetwynd (Snug, Little Moments of Love) signs at The Booksmith in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. (tickets $16.50–$43, including book).
Steve Almond speaks with Matthew Zapruder (Come on All You Ghosts) about Almond’s latest book, William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life, at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga at 2:30 p.m.
Louise Glück, Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003-2004, reads at Stanford University at 11 a.m.
Oakland-based Conor Dougherty discusses his new book about affordable housing, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. (tickets $7-$33)
Thursday 2/20: Jenny Offill discusses her new novel, Weather, at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.
William T. Vollmann reads from his new novel, The Lucky Star, at City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Catana Chetwynd (Snug, Little Moments of Love) signs at The Booksmith in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. (tickets $16.50–$43, including book).
Jennifer Bartlett (The Hindrances of a Householder) and Denise Leto (Your Body Is Not a Shark) read at the In-Common Writers Series at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center at 7 p.m.
Diane Keaton speaks about her new book, Brother & Sister: A Memoir, for City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. (tickets $59, including a copy of the book).
Craig Fehrman speaks about his book, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building at 6 p.m.
Joan Frank reads from her quartet of novellas, Where You’re All Going, at Mrs. Dalloway’s Books in Berkeley at 7:30 p.m.
Sonoma bookseller Andy Weinberger reads from his debut mystery novel, An Old Man’s Game, at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland at 7 p.m. (Bay Area transplants from LA may appreciate that the novel opens with a death over a bowl of matzo ball soup at Canter’s Deli.)
Friday 2/21: Jennifer Bartlett (The Hindrances of a Householder) and Denise Leto (Your Body Is Not a Shark) read at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s In-Common Writers Series at The Green Arcade in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Cliterary Salon’s feminist, sex positive reading series featuring sam sax (Madness), Amy Estes, Katie Aliferis, and Cassandra Dallett (A Pretty Little Wilderness) is in San Francisco at Perdita at 7 p.m. (tickets $12).
Diane Keaton speaks about her new book, Brother & Sister: A Memoir, at a sold-out event at Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael at 6:30 p.m. (tickets $45).
Point Reyes Books hosts Jenny Offill discussing her new novel, Weather, at The Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station at 7 p.m.
Saturday 2/22: Kawai Strong Washburn discusses his debut novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 2/23: Silent Book Club is back at The Bindery in San Francisco at 4 p.m.
Visit the Sistah Scifi popup at the 3rd annual Black Joy Parade festival in Oakland. Parade begins at 12:30 p.m.
Book Passage presents their second annual panel on Race in America, featuring Brian Copeland (Not a Genuine Black Man: My Life as an Outsider), Aya de Leon (Side Chick Nation), Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name), and Ian Haney Lopez (Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America), in Corte Madera at 5 p.m.
Monday 2/24: John Sayles reads from his new novel, Yellow Earth, at City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Katy Butler speaks about her new book, The Art of Dying Well, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. (tickets $10-$45).
Tuesday 2/25: Poet Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection, Good Boys, with sam sax, Kai Carson-Wee, and Jay Deshpande at City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco at 7 p.m.
Emily Nemens discusses her new novel, The Cactus League, at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.
Lit Flicks, a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse San Francisco, is screening Out of Sight, based on Elmore Leonard’s novel. Eddie Muller (Noir City, host of TCM’s Noir Alley) introduces the film at 7:30 p.m., screening starts at 7:50 p.m. (tickets $16).
John Sayles reads from his new novel, Yellow Earth, at Moe’s Books in Berkeley at 7 p.m.
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