San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
LITERARY GUIDE
SUNDAY
Christina Figueres, Josh Freedman, Jeremy Levie, Greg Dalton “Mindfulness and the Paris Climate Agreement.” 10:30 a.m. $17-$35. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. 415597-6705. www.commonwealth club.org
Genny Lim, Jerry Ferraz Poetry reading. 2 p.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery St., S.F. 415586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com Patricia Polacco “Holes in the Sky.” 1 p.m. Pegasus Books Oakland, 5560 College Ave., Oakland. 510-652-6259. www.pegasusbookstore.com George Shultz “Global Climate Action,” talk and discussion. 9:30 a.m. Free. Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., S.F. www.gracecathedral.org
MONDAY
Barbara Adams “Women, Minorities & Other Extraordinary People.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415-835-1020. www.bookpassage.com
José Andrés, Tom Philpott “We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time.” 6:30 p.m. $10-$65. Marines Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter St., S.F. 415-5976705. www.commonwealthclub.org Brian Behlendorf, Renee DiResta, Aza Raskin “Chronicle Chats: On Tech.” 7 p.m. $30. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F. info.sfchronicle. com/chroniclechats/on-tech-57OO -1777B.html
Sharon Doubiago, Bill Brad Poetry reading and open mike. 7 p.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery St., S.F. 415- 586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com
Susan L. Shirk “Preventing Cold War II: A Game Plan for Healthy Competition With China.” 6 p.m. $8-$20. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. 415-597-6705. www.common wealthclub.org
TUESDAY
Jesse Berrett “Pigskin Nation.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415-835-1020. www.bookpassage.com
Juliet Blackwell, Sopia Grant Blackwell’s “The Lost Carousel of Provence,” and Grant’s “The Daisy Children.” 4:30 p.m. East Bay Book Sellers, 5433 College Ave., Oakland. 510-6539965. www.ebbooksellers.com
Lisa Hanawalt “Coyote Doggirl.” 7:30 p.m. Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-6491320. www.pegasusbookstore.com Mary Jo McConahay “The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II.” 7 p.m. Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-5257777. www.booksinc.net
DeRay Mckesson, MC Hammer “On the Other Side of Freedom:A Case for Hope.” 6:30 p.m. $12-$60. Marines’ Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter St., S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealth club.org
Margaret Randall “Time’s Language: Selected Poems (1959-2018).” 7 p.m. City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., S.F. 415-362-8193. www.city lights.com
WEDNESDAY
Lisa Hanawalt “Coyote Doggirl.” 7:30 p.m. Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. 415- 742-5833. www.greenapplebooks.com
Maxim Loskutoff, Mikkel Rosengaard “Loskutoff’s “Come West and See,” and Rosengaard’s “The Invention of Ana.” 7:30 p.m. Booksmith, 1644 Haight St., S.F. 415-863-8688. www.booksmith.com
Valerie Wallace, Sarah Gladstone, Norma Smith, Mk Chavez, Sharon Coleman “Lyrics & Dirges,” reading series. 7:30 p.m. Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-649-1320. www.pega susbookstore.com
Peter Phillips “Giants: The Global Power Elite.” 7:30 p.m. City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., S.F. 415-362-8193. www.citylights.com
THURSDAY
Denise E. Clifton “Tables From the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today.” 7:30 p.m. Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. 415-742-5833. www.greenapplebooks.com
Beth Comstock, Gina Bianchini “Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change.” 6:30 p.m. $10-$60. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org Forest Gander, Jonathan Santlofer, Susan Steinberg Gander’s “Be With,” and Santlofer’s “Widower’s Notebook.” 7 p.m. City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., S.F. 415-362-8193. www.citylights.com
Alice Horrman, Lisa Hoffman “Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic.” 6 p.m. Book Passage, One Ferry Building, S.F. 415-835-1020. www.bookpassage.com
Jim Kempton “First We Surf, Then We Eat: Recipes From a Lifetime of Surf Travel.” 6:30 p.m. Omnivore Books, 3885 Cesar Chavez St., S.F. 415-2824712. www.omnivorebooks.com R. O. Kwon, Anisse Gross, Rachel Khong, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Caille Millner, Esmé Weijun Wang, Colin Winnette, Lydia Kiesling “The Incendiaries,” “Goodbye, Vitamin,” “A Kind of Freedom,” “The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification,” The Border of Paradise,” “The Job of the Wasp,” “Haints Stay,” “The Golden State.” 7:30 p.m. The Bindery, 1727 Haight St., S.F. 415-863-8688. www.booksmith.com
Kimberley Lovato, Jill Robinson “100 Things to Do in San Francisco Before You Die.” 7 p.m. Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut St., S.F. 415-931-3633. www.booksinc.net
Kim Malcolm “A Country Within: A Journey of Love and Hope During the Refugee Crisis in Greece.” 7 p.m. Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-525-7777. www.booksinc.net
Danial Mason “The Winter Soldier.” 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. 510-704-8222. www.mrsdalloways.com
Guatalupe Nettel “After the Winter.” 7 p.m. East Bay Book Sellers, 5433 College Ave., Oakland. 510- 6539965. www.ebbooksellers.com
P.J. O’Rourke, Lenny Mendonca “The Politics of Money.” $10-$60. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. 415- 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org
Tom Stienstra “Sierra Crossing.” 6 p.m. $8-$20. Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. 415-597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org
Terry Tarnoff “The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker.” 7:30 p.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery St., S.F. 415-586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com
Annie Wang “May in America.” 6 p.m. Eastwind Books, 2066 University Ave., Berkeley. mayinamerica.eventbrite.com
FRIDAY
Michael Barbaro, Kevin Roose, Annie Brown Barbaro, the host and managing editor of New York Times’ “The Daily,” and NYT’s “The Shift” columnist Roose. 7:30 p.m. $29. Nourse Auditorium, 275 Hayes St., S.F. 415-392-4400. www.ciyarts.net
Keir Graff “The Phantom Tour.” 7 p.m. A Great Good Place for Books, 6120 LaSalle Ave., Oakland. 510- 339-8210. www.ggpbooks.com
Brigitte Schulze Pilibosian “Pour Me One More! The Adventures of a Freelance Foreign Correspondent,” writers lunch. Noon. Free. Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post St., S.F. 415-3930100. www.milibrary.org
Valerie Wallace, Daniel Handler, Kevin Simmonds “House of McQueen.” 7:30 p.m. Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. 415-742-5833. www.greenapple books.com
SATURDAY
Kankana Saxena “Taste of Eastern India: Delicious, Authentic Bengali Meals You Need to Try.” 4 p.m. Omnivore Books, 3885 Cesar Chavez St., S.F. 415-282-4712. www.omnivore books.com