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Sam Lipsyte with Sloane Crosley

13 DECEMBER 2022 — tuesday

City Lights Books presents bestselling novelist Sam Lipsyte, Home Land, recipient of the Believer Book Award, reading from his new book, No One Left to Come Looking for You, joined by essayist Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There, a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events/)




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1 NOVEMBER 2025 — saturday

  • Sixteen Rivers Press presents A Celebration of Poetry Flash, with featured speakers Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman, and poetry reading by Joyce Jenkins, Editor-Director, and Associate Editor Richard Silberg, Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, free admission, 3:00 to 5:00 (sixteenrivers.org/readings-events)

2 NOVEMBER 2025 — sunday

  • City Arts and Lectures presents host and creator of This American Life Ira Glass, in conversation with author and filmmaker Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

3 NOVEMBER 2025 — monday

4 NOVEMBER 2025 — tuesday

  • Womb House Books welcomes Grace Byron to discuss her new novel Herculine; this horror debut follows a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her comrades, in conversation with author Hannah Zeavin, Womb House Books, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)

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  • 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)

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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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