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PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards

2 DECEMBER 2023 — saturday

PEN Oakland presents the 34th Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards, featuring winners of the Josephine Miles Award, Javier Zamora, Solito: A Memoir; Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind; Perennial Earth: Poetry by Wallace Stevens and Paintings by Alexis Serio, edited by John N. Serio; T.J. English, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld; Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling: A Novel; Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense; Kobena Mercer, Alain Locke & The Visual Arts; D.S. Marriott, Before Whiteness; Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez, Love and Rockets: The First Fifty: The Classic 40th Anniversary Collection; the winners of the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, Louise Meriwether and the late Sara Webster Fabio, Boss Soul, Soul Ain't Soul Is, Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox, JuJus Alchemy of the Blues; the winners of the Adelle Foley Award, The Daily KOS and the late Joyce Wong; and the winner of the Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism, Tressie McMillan Cottom; Rockridge Branch of the Oakland Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 2:00-5:00 pm PST (More information here: oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/6553cf82b6d98938007f62d0)




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16 NOVEMBER 2025 — sunday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Alison Luterman, Hard Listening, and Yiskah Rosenfeld, reading from two recent collections, Tasting Flight and Naked Beside Fish, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 3:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).
  • City Arts and Lectures presents award-winning fiction writer Salman Rushdie, reading from and discussing his forthcoming book The Eleventh Hour, exploring themes of life, death, legacy, and identity through stories set in India, England, and the United States, countries significant to Rushdie's life and work, in conversation with English professor and Co-Director of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, Poulomi Saha, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $64-$81, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

17 NOVEMBER 2025 — monday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents New York Times bestselling author Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, in conversation with Peabody Award-winning comedian, director, and producer W. Kamau Bell, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $69-$105, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

18 NOVEMBER 2025 — tuesday

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20 NOVEMBER 2025 — thursday

  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

21 NOVEMBER 2025 — friday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents Nobel Prize-winner Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas discussing their new co-authored book The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies in Economic Life, in conversation with author Michael Lewis, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49-$54, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

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