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Oakstop California Ballroom

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Changing Gender: Susan Stryker (SOLD OUT) 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon 2026 12 12:00pm -
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Roxie Theater

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ZYZZYVA Movie Night: Songs of Earth 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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Calvary Presbyterian

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R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story (SOLD OUT) 7:00pm - 9:30pm

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Warfield Commons

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Warfield Commons Opening Party (JOIN THE WAITLIST) 12:00pm - 5:00pm

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Great Lawn, Yerba Buena Gardens

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Small Press Book Fair 11:00am - 4:00pm

Hands in the Soil, Legs on the Pole: Queerness in the Material R... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Fluent in Rebirth: Trans and Non-Binary Incantations 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Queer Trans Black & Indigenous Poetics: We Have Always Paved Our... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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Sydney Goldstein Theater

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An Evening with Ayad Akhtar 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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524 Union	SFPL Main Branch

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Litquake's Opening Night Bash: Booksellers Ball 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Kidquake: Upper Elementary 10:15am - 12:15pm

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BATS Improv Theatre	Chapter 510	Gilman Brewing	SFPL Main Branch	Vintage Berkeley Wine Shop

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Hernan Diaz: Ply 7:00pm - 8:30pm

An Afternoon with Mahogany Browne 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Olivie Blake: Dreamland 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Kidquake: Lower Elementary 10:15am - 12:15pm

"I took the lake between my legs": Women of a Certain Age Read Poems on Sex and Death 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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447 Minna	Calvary Presbyterian	First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall	Galeria de la Raza	La Reyna Bakery	Make-Out Room	Medicine for Nightmares	The Stud

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From Punchlines to Gut Punches: Weaponizing Wit With Humor and S... 11:00am - 12:00pm

Beyond the Isms: Crafting Stories that Spark Real-World Activism 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lick, Smack, Slurp: Writing the Desires We Only Confess to the P... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Claudia Rankine: Triage 7:00pm - 8:30pm

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! La Lunada 7:30pm - 8:30pm

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Pan Dulce Poets 6:15pm - 7:15pm

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition 7:00pm - 9:00pm

¡Poetry on la Veinticuatro! Poets in the Window 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Literary Speakeasy Presents: Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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447 Minna	Clio’s	Grace Cathedral	Nosh Box	SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium

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Voice Lessons: Crafting an Artist Statement that Proves You're H... 11:00am - 12:00pm

The Unconventional Author: Side Doors and Secret Passages to Pub... 12:30pm - 1:30pm

After The Launch: Raising Your Book to Survive and Thrive 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Lesbians Are Elsewhere: Writing the For All Gaze Archive 2:00pm - 4:00pm

The Savage Mind: An American Legacy with David Treuer 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Out on the Table: Writers on Food with Garrett Schlichte 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Natalie Baszile: Friends and Family 3:00pm - 4:00pm

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American Bookbinders Museum	Et al.	KQED Commons	Mechanics’ Institute	Page Street Co-Writing	Pegasus Books

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While you were novel-ing, I studied the blade: A Celebration of the Short Story 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Invitation | Abandonment: A Collective Poem in Assembly 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-Out 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tilar J. Mazzeo: The Sea Captain’s Wife 6:30pm - 8:00pm

NBCC Presents: The Author/Critic Dilemma 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Asale Angel-Ajani: Fugitive Archives Launch 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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JCCSF Kanbar Hall	Make-Out Room	The Treeline, Sports Basement Bryant

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Jon Ronson: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Trading Pages: A Poetry/Fiction Exchange 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Writing The Body: Sports and Identity 6:30pm - 8:00pm

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Decentered Arts	JCC East Bay Community Campus	KALW	Make-Out Room	Mechanics’ Institute	Omnivore Books on Food	St. Joseph’s Art Society

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for colored girls who considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf 50th Anniversary 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Helene Wecker: The Gates of Midnight 6:30pm - 7:30pm

A 22nd-Century Conservation Ethos for California 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Freedom: Essays with Zinzi Clemmons 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Ukraïne: Recipes and Stories from Kyiv to the Black Sea 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Decentered Arts presents Poolside Poets 7:00pm - 9:30pm

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Make-Out Room	Telegraph Hill Books	The Community Room, Sports Basement Berkeley	The Lost Church

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Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Peter King: The Game 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Generation Women: Wins & Losses 8:15pm - 9:45pm

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Kerouac Alley	Mrs. Dalloway's	Museum of the African Diaspora	Roxie Theater	SFPL Main Branch	Telegraph Hill Books	The Crown

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Read the Room: Books Not Bans 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Picturing the Past: Graphic Novelists on History and Memory 17 7:00pm -
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Dorothy Lazard: Behind the Desk at the Main 17 2:00pm -
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ZYZZYVA Movie Matinee: Amarcord 17 12:30pm -
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FilBookFest 10:00am - 5:30pm

Jean-Baptiste Phou: Coming Out of My Skin 17 7:00pm -
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An Evening Spell: Trans Poetry & Hardware Hang 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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City Lights	Gray Area Theater	SFPL Haight Branch	SFPL Main Branch

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How to Exi(s)t: A Poet’s Memoir with Truong Tran 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Menopause Extravaganza: The Science and Culture of a Subject No... 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Listen to Your Elders: An Elder Project Reading 2:00pm - 4:00pm

FilBookFest 12:00pm - 5:30pm

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City Lights	Page Street Co-Writing

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A Celebration of César Vallejo's Trilce 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Woof: A Celebration of Our Canine Companions 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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City Lights	Clio’s	Gilman Brewing	Mrs. Dalloway's	SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium	Telegraph Hill Books

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Brian Evenson: Phantom Limb 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Celebrating 50 Years of Publishers Group West 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Pitchapalooza 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Memoirs: Writing Against Silence or Erasure 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Living in the Shadow of Silicon Valley 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Alain Damasio: Horde of the Counterwind 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Arc Gallery	Decentered Arts	KALW	Museum of the African Diaspora	Telegraph Hill Books	The Lost Church	YBCA Screening Room

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Kearny Street Workshop presents APAture Literary Showcase 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Rapture: the art that moves us 6:00pm - 7:30pm

California Journeys 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Nafissa Thompson-Spires: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition 7:00pm - 8:30pm

All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends 8:15pm - 9:45pm

Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and A.I. 6:30pm - 8:00pm

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Book Club of California	Book Society	City Lights	GLBT Historical Society	Sausalito Books by the Bay	The Lost Church	The Stud	Vogue Theater

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California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Fire, Earth, Air & Water: Nik Sharma on the Science of Better Cooking 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Ben Ehrenreich: Hold Still 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Her Story, History, Their Story, Whose Story? Facts and Fictions in Historical Queer Books 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Vigdis Hjorth: Repetition (Marin Edition) 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Chad Harbach: The Brightness 8:15pm - 9:45pm

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Lights, Camera, Action: Porchlight Storytelling on the Big Screen 7:30pm - 9:30pm

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First Presbyterian Church of Oakland Fellowship Hall	Omnivore Books on Food	SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium	Telegraph Hill Books	The Lost Church	The Stud

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Lift Every Voice: A Festival Finale in Verse 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Five Tastes: Delicious Recipes for Chinese Flavors with Fuchsia... 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Walter Mosley: Hanging and Burning 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Carolina Pihelgas: The Cut Line 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Playlist Storytellers 8:15pm - 10:30pm

Queerly Beloved: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Writing in Foglifter 7:00pm - 9:00pm

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Multiple Locations	The Drawing Room: Annex

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Lit Crawl SF 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Lit Crawl Afterparty 9:00pm - 11:00pm

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Page Street Co-Writing

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How They Did It: Getting Unstuck 3:00pm - 5:00pm

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Telegraph Hill Books

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Nelio Biedermann: Lázár 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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City Lights

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Jennifer Croft: Notes on Postcards 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Marcus Books

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And If I Die Before I Wake: George M. Johnson with Maggie Tokuda-Hall 6:30pm - 8:00pm

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KALW

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Saira Mohamed: What a Country Owes Its Soldiers 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Green Apple Books on the Park

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Jen Siraganian: Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Sydney Goldstein Theater

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Marlon James: The Disappearers 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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Grace Cathedral

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The Best Journey in the World: An Antarctic Story with Kim Stanley Robinson 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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