Books Inc. presents former reporter and novelist Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, celebrating her debut novel, A Fire So Wild, in conversation with novelist Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder, finalist for the California Book Awards, Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: www.booksinc.net/event/sarah-ruiz-grossman-books-inc-berkeley)
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)