The Bay Area Book Festival presents historian and journalist Adam Hochschild discussing his book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, introduced by Monika Baurlein, Mother Jones Magazine, David Brower Center, Goldman Theatre, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, free, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.baybookfest.org)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)