Molly Fisk and Francesca Bell 5/17, Berkeley more info
Laura van den Berg
18 JULY 2024 — thursday
Skylight Books welcomes Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, to read from and discuss her new novel, State of Paradise, Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-laura-van-den-berg-presents-state-paradise)
Bird & Beckett hosts Jeanne Carsten to discuss her new book, A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 pm (birdbeckett.com/events)
The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers' Series at SDSU presents Blas Falconer in a poetry reading from his newest book Rara Avis, in-person at San Diego State University Library, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, in the Leon Williams Room, LL430, Love Library, Fourth Floor, free, 7:00 pm (library.sdsu.edu/events#event-details/49327f40-616e-4f1a-8ba1-a188dc054cb1)
The Altadena Library hosts their first ever Adult Literacy Book Club, a limited supply of books will be available on a first-come, first serve basis, Bob Lucas Memorial Library and Literacy Center, 2659 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena, adults nineteen or older, free, 10:30 am (altadenalibrary.libnet.info/event/15871103)
Poet and writer Eileen Myles in conversation with poet James Schuyler's biographer, Nathan Kernan, A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, with additional discussion and reading of Schuyler's work by Tom Carey, Jason Morris, and Hannah Zeavin, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:30 pm (birdbeckett.com/events/)