LITERARY GUIDE

SUNDAY

Ellery Akers, Tom Centollela, Jane Hirschfield, Molly Giles, Kay Ryan, Joe Zacardi 16 Rivers Poetry Group reading. 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415927-0960. www.bookpassage.com Katya Apekina, Bryan Hurt, Lisa Locascio “The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish,” “Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France,” and “Open Me.” 4 p.m. The Bindery, 1727 Haight St., S.F. 415- 863-8688. www.booksmith.com

Jackson Burgess “Atrophy.” 7 p.m. Green Apple Books 506 Clement St., S.F. 415- 387-2272. www.green applebooks.com

Jerry Ferraz Poetry reading. 11:30 a.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Cheneryt St., S.F. 415- 586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com

James Frey “Katerina.” 3 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415835-1020. www.bookpassage.com Gary Gach “Pause, Breathe, Smile: Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough.” 4 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415- 927-0960. www. bookpassage.com

Marvin Gapultos “Pulutan! Filipino Bar Bites, Appetizers and Street Eats.” 4 p.m. Omnivore Books, 3885 Cesar Chavez St., S.F. 415- 282-4712. www.omnivorebooks.com

Debbie Riving “Waking Up White.” 3 p.m. Corte Madera Library, 707 Meadowsweet Dr., Corte Madera. 415-9243515. www.marinlibrary.org

William Powers “Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community’s Quest to Reinvent the World.” 1 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415- 927-0960. www. bookpassage.com

Ryan Serhant “Sell it Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine.” 1 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415- 835-1020. www.bookpassage.com

Aakash Tyagi Poetry reading. 5 p.m. Adobe Books 3130 24th St., S.F. 415864-3936. www.adobebooks.com

MONDAY

Clara Bingham, Charles Kaiser Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution” and Kaiser’s “1968 in America.” 7:30 p.m. Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-6491320. www.pegasusbookstore.com Katie Ford, Katie Peterson Ford’s “If You Have to Go” and Peterson’s “The Accounts.” 7:30 p.m. Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., S.F. 415-863-8688. www.booksmith.com

Khaled Hosseini, Isabel Allende “Sea Prayer.” 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415-927-0960. www.bookpassage. com

Holly and Dixie James “Holly.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415-835-1020. www.bookpassage.com

Jeanne McCulloch “All Happy Families.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, 100 Bay St., Sausalito. 415-339-1300. www.bookpassage.com

Jane Mount “Bibliophile.” 7 p.m. East Bay Book Sellers, 5433 College Ave., Oakland. 510-653-9965. www. ebbooksellers.com

Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, Guy Kawasaki “A Road Map for Revolutionaries: Tools for Everyday Activists.” 6:30 p.m. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. 415-597-6705. www.common wealthclub.org

TUESDAY

Kathryn Jordan “Riding Waves.” 7:30 p.m. Pegasus Books, 1855 Solano Ave., Berkeley. 510-525-6888. www.pegasusbookstore.com

Daniel Mason “The Winter Soldier.” 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415-927-0960. www.bookpassage.com

Michael Rich, Gloria Duffy “Fighting Truth Decay in America.” 6:30 p.m. $10-$45. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. 415-5976705. www.commonwealthclub.org Barbara Stephenson “What Diplomats Do and Why it Matters.” 12 p.m. $8-$20. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org

Elaine Truax, Lauren Markham, Ian Gordon Traux’s “We Built the Wall: How the U.S. Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America, and Beyond” and Markham’s “The Faraway Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life.” 6:30 p.m. $10-$15. Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post St., S.F. 415-393-0100. www.milibrary.org Dubravka Ugresic “Fox” and “American Fictionary.” 7:30 p.m. Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave., S.F. 415-742-5833. www. greenapplebooks.com

Richard Walker “Tedh and the Dark Side of Prosperity.” 6 p.m. $8-$20. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org

WEDNESDAY

Jennifer Clair “Six Basic Cooking Techniques: Culinary Essentials for the Home Cook.” 6:30 p.m. Omnivore Books, 3885 Cesar Chavez St., S.F. 415-282-4712. www.omnivorebooks.com Drew Daywalt, Scott Campbell “Sleepy, the Goodnight Bunny.” 5 p.m. Books Inc., 1875 S. Bascom Avenue, Suite #600, Campbell. www.booksinc.net

Anna Gatmon “Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World: Four Keys to Fulfillment and Balance.” 5:15 p.m. $8-$20. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org

Jen Hofer, John Pluecker “Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative,” poetry reading. 7 p.m. Wolfman Books, 410 13th St., Oakland. 510-679-4650. lca.sfsu.edu

Kim Malcolm “A Country Within: A Journey of Love adn Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415-835-1020. www.book passage.com

Lisa Margonelli “Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology.” 7 p.m. Adobe Books 3130 24th St., S.F. 415-864-3936. www.adobebooks.com

Mary Jo McConahay, Peter Robinson “The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, 100 Bay St., Sausalito. 415-339-1300. www. bookpassage.com

Sean Penn “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.” 7:30 p.m. $36-$55. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. 650-223-8700 www.paloalto jcc.org

Jo Piazza “Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win.” 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 415-9270960. www.bookpassage.com

V.E. Schwab “Vengeful: Villains #2.” 7 p.m. Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-525-7777. www. booksinc.net

Preti Taneja “We That Are Young.” 7 p.m. City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., S.F. 415-362-8193. www.citylights.com

Caeli Wolfson Widger, Kristin Chen Widger’s “Mother of Invention” and Chen’s “Bury What We Cannot Take.” 7 p.m. A Great Good Place for Books, 6120 LaSalle Ave., Oakland. 510-3398210. www.ggpbooks.com