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26 OCTOBER 2016 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Jonathan Lethem, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, reads from and discusses his latest novel A Gambler's Anatomy, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Molotov Editions launches its inaugural publishing season: Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Domenic Stansberry reads from his erotically charged The White Devil; Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville, a searing comic novel set in Mendocino County, shares his new play, brief readings, Q and A, book signing, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, 7:00 (www.molotoveditions.com)
    NORTH:
  • The Larkspur Book Club Pioneers discuss The Tsar of Love and Techno, by Anthony Marra, Diesel, A Bookstore, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, all welcome, 7:00-8:00 (415/785-8177,
  • Get Lit presents readers Dani Burlison, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories, essays which appeared in her McSweeney's Internet Tendency column, and Lady Parts; Jacqueline Doyle, her flash fiction collection The Missing Girl is forthcoming; and Megan Turner, short open mic follows, wine, beverages, appetizers, desserts for sale at the bar, Corkscrew Wine Bar, 100 Petaluma Blvd North, Suite 103, Petaluma, 7:00-9:00 ( https://www.facebook.com/events/1680044115553877/)

27 OCTOBER 2016 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading with Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, a conversation with the poets follows, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:30 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Foglifter Press, a queer literary arts organization, launch event for its issue two publication, Foglifter 1.2, with readers Michael Alenyikov, Shideh Etatt, Gabrielle Glancy, Jewelle Gomez, Amir Rabiyah, and Cedar Sigo, Dog Eared Books, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, free/donation of $15 includes a copy of the publication, 7:00 (foglifter.journal@gmail.com, www.foglifterpress.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures a live broadcast with W. Kamau Bell featuring political comedy, cultural conversation, and special guests, co-presented with KALW, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29, 6:45, doors open at 6:00 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • Tibetan translator and scholar Anne Carolyn Klein talks about her latest book, Strand of Jewels: My Teachers' Essential Guidance on Dzogchen, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • The Holloway Series in Poetry features poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist Gary Snyder, the "Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology," University of California campus, Hearst Field Annex, Room D37, off Bancroft Way, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

28 OCTOBER 2016 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Kids' Pajama Party welcomes illustrator Eda Kaban to read a bedtime story from Even Superheroes Have Bad Days, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 6:00-6:30 (510/653-9965, www.dieselbookstore.com)
  • Breathe Between the Beats, A Night of Beat Poetry and the Zen of Haiku with haiku poet Amos White and guest poets Clive Matson, Jack Foley, Mary Holman, and Andrew O. Dugas, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00-9:00 (www.kerouac.com)

29 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents comedian and writer Abbi Jacobson, Carry This Book, in conversation with Carrie Brownstein, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29 (tickets Sold Out!), 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • World Poetry Movement reading with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, featuring poets Jorge Argueta, Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Judith Ayn Bernhard, Lidija Canovic, Neeli Cherkovski, Pauline Craig, John Curl, Diego DeLeo, Agneta Falk, Francisco Herrera, Jack Hirschman, Rosemary Manno, Sarah Menefee, Shirin Sadeghi, Toshi Washizu, Cathleen Wllliams, co-sponsored by the Juana Briones Cultural Committee, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.kerouac.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Florey's Book Company presents their last Poetry at Florey's event of the season (resuming again in January 2017), featuring award-winning poets Rebecca Foust and Melissa Stein, followed by a poetry open mic (three-minute limit), hosted by Sherri Rose-Walker, bring snacks, drinks, paper cups, plates, or utensils to share, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:30-9:30 (650/355-8811, www.floreysbooks.blogspot.com)

30 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Before Columbus Foundation presents the thirty-seventh annual American Book Awards, a writers' award given by other writers, the 2016 winners are Laura Da' for Tributaries (University of Arizona), Susan Muaddi Darraj for Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts), Deepa Iyer for We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press), Mat Johnson for Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau), John Keene for Counternarratives (New Directions), William J. Maxwell for F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University), Lauret Savoy for Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint), Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette for The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books), Jesús Salvador Treviño for Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público), Nick Turse for Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books), Ray Young Bear for Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media); Lifetime Achievement: Louise Meriwether; Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg; Andrew Hope Award: Chiitaanibah Johnson, Joe Henderson Lab at SF Jazz Center, 201 Franklin Street, at Fell, San Francisco, open to the public, 2:00-5:00 (www.sfjazz.org)
  • San Francisco poet and fiction writer Jewelle Gomez reads from The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition just released by City Lights, Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia, San Francisco, 3:00 (408/824-8203, www.borderlands-books.com)

31 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents Maverick Night, an open reading on the writing prompt "Formal Night (your poem within a poetry form)"; "the group nominates a work which then is eligible for publication in our online magazine at the end of the year," Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

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