Alta Live: Author Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley fans, get excited! The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s forthcoming book, The Questions that Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom, explores a number of provocations around class, race, and gender in the Western…
German Writer Thomas Brussig with Jonathan Franzen
Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the Wall. Translator and author Jonathan…
Bagels with Writers
We’ll kick things off with complimentary bagels, spreads, coffee and tea, then gather to listen to our four authors, who will each share their best fifteen minutes of writing (and publishing ) advice. Then we'll open the floor for a half-hour…
Black Fire This Time
Inspired by Black Fire This Time, an anthology featuring over 100 poets and writers celebrating the roots and legacy of the Black Arts Movement, this writing workshop will feature Heather Buchanan. Buchanan presents writing workshops and readings…
Survive & Thrive: A Literary Reading & Conversation with Devi S. Laskar & Lucy Jane Bledsoe
What is redemption? How do you get it? How is it different from revenge? Multi-award winning authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe and Devi S. Laskar will read from their new novels and discuss how they write with an eye toward redemption that is true…
Words on War: Readings by Writers from the Former USSR
Writers and journalists who've lived and worked in the former USSR will join prominent Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov in sharing work that relates to the war in Ukraine. Hear from Katya Cengel (From Chernobyl With Love), Simon Shuster (The…
Dominican MFA Reading
The event is a partnership between Dominican University of California's MFA in Creative Writing Program and Sausalito Books by the Bay. The event features current students, alumni, and faculty of the program. Presenters will read from samples…
Dave Eggers: The Eyes and the Impossible
Is there anything Dave Eggers can’t do? The multi-talented juggernaut’s latest project—a collaboration with artist Shawn Harris—is an illustrated novel for all ages. The Eyes and the Impossible is an animal fable about Johannes, a dog…
A Life in Books
Each of us has a different, and beautiful, relationship with the books we read…and write. That is no less true if you’ve just published your first, as legendary librarian Dorothy Lazard has with her memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make…
Dazzling Debuts
Here's your chance to meet three astonishingly talented young authors, hailing from around the world, at the beginning of their careers—you'll be able to boast that you saw them when! Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You might be a debut,…