{"id":37712,"date":"2025-09-02T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:22:14","slug":"september-2025-author-events-norcal-book-awards-greg-anton-joe-boyd-michelle-chouinard-john-doll-vanessa-grubbs-alvin-lu-liam-obrien-sister-helen-prejean-mary-roach-arundhati-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37712\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2025 author events: NorCal Book Awards, Greg Anton, Joe Boyd, Michelle Chouinard, John Doll, Vanessa Grubbs, Alvin Lu, Liam O&#8217;Brien, Sister Helen Prejean, Mary Roach, Arundhati Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sept. 3\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGiant.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163713\" style=\"width:147px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy University of Nebraska Press)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrsdalloways.com\/events\/chris-haft-presents-giant-among-giants-baseball-life-willie-mccovey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Chris Haft<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The former reporter who covered the San Francisco Giants for 14 seasons and authored four books on the team discusses his new biography \u201cA Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey,\u201d in conversation with Allison McCovey, Willie McCovey\u2019s daughter. [7 p.m., Mrs. Dalloway\u2019s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 4\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Holding.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163714\" style=\"width:125px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Steerforth)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copperfieldsbooks.com\/event\/karleigh-frisbie-brogan-dani-burlison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Karleigh Frisbie Brogan<\/strong>:<\/a> The Sonoma County native speaks about her debut memoir, the mostly Sonoma County-set \u201cHolding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts\u201d in which she shares details about her addiction, her partner\u2019s addiction, and the powerful relationship she struck up with her partner\u2019s mother. [7 p.m., Copperfield\u2019s Books, 138 N Main St., Sebastopol]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ADime.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163715\" style=\"width:131px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Advantage Publishing)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 5\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copperfieldsbooks.com\/event\/kathryn-henry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Kathryn Henry<\/strong><\/a>: The Napa writer, spiritual seeker and business leader speaks about her memoir \u201cA Dime to Say I Love You: A Journey of Love, Loss, and Spiritual Awakening,\u201d in which she shares how her outlook changed after she lost her wife to a rare, aggressive cancer and offers tips on meditation practices. [7 p.m., Copperfield\u2019s Books, 1300 First St., Suite 398, Napa]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 6\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpl.org\/events\/2025\/09\/06\/celebration-44th-annual-northern-california-book-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Northern California Book Awards<\/strong><\/a>: Honorees are slated to appear at the 44th annual free event presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, the San Francisco Public Library, Mechanics\u2019 Institute Library and Women\u2019s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter. Winners are local authors of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, general nonfiction, translation and children\u2019s literature released in 2024. Rebecca Solnit will accept the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement and Service, while the NCBA Groundbreaker Award will be presented to Paul Yamazaki, principal book buyer for City Lights Books for over 50 years. [2 p.m., Koret Auditorium, S.F. Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 7<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WorldPacific.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163717\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Harper)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/peter-mann-world-pacific-novel-ferry-building-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Peter Mann<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong>The Stanford University instructor and San Francisco author of \u201cThe Torqued Man,\u201d among The New Yorker\u2019s best books of 2022, appears with Michaela Hulstyn of Stanford to discuss his new historical novel \u201cWorld Pacific,\u201d about the 1939 disappearance of a boys adventure novelist (loosely based on Richard Halliburton) who vanishes while trying to sail from Hong Kong to San Francisco. [2 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Unmasking.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163718\" style=\"width:160px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Health Communications Inc.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 7\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/guryan-tighe-unmasking-fear-corte-madera-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Guryan Tighe<\/strong><\/a>: The San Francisco workshop facilitator, communications strategist and private leadership coach whose company \u201cFourage\u201d helps clients grow by understanding rather than conquering fears, shares concepts from her new title \u201cUnmasking Fear: How Fears Are Our Gateways to Freedom.\u201d [4 p.m., Book Passage,\u00a0 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AmericanTeenager.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163719\" style=\"width:145px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Harry N. Abrams)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 9\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SoMany.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163720\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Algonquin Books)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/trans-narratives-of-america-tickets-1485118843439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Trans Narratives of America<\/strong><\/a>: Carolina De Robertis ( \u201cSo Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color\u201d) and Nico Lang (\u201cAmerican Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era\u201d) discuss the importance of preserving and honoring lives and voices of trans people in a ticketed ($6-$12) talk moderated by Britta Stromeyer. [6 p.m., Kepler\u2019s, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163721\" style=\"width:190px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Workman)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/joanna-schroeder-and-christopher-pepper-talk-your-boys-ferry-building-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Joanna Schroeder, Christopher Pepper<\/strong><\/a>: Schroeder, a writer, editor and critic often covering parenting issues, and Pepper, a San Francisco high school health educator and curriculum developer, speak about \u201cTalk to Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Tweens and Teens Grow into Confident, Caring Young Men,\u201d their guidebook compiling insights from dozens of young men and experts including therapists. [5:30 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Typewriter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159463\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Harper)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lllcf.org\/clayton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Meg Waite Clayton<\/strong><\/a>: The Lafayette Library and Learning Center hosts \u201cThe \u201cPostmistress of Paris\u201d and \u201cThe Last Train to London\u201d novelist, speaking about her \u201cTypewriter Beach,\u201d\u00a0 her new mystery set in Carmel-by-the Sea bout the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and an actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s new star, in a ticketed ($20-$125) event. [7 p.m., Don Tatzin Community Hall, Lafayette Library, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette]\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 11\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AndTheRoots.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163722\" style=\"width:189px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy ZE Books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roxie.com\/film\/and-the-roots-of-rhythm-remain-w-joe-boyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Joe Boyd<\/strong>:<\/a> The veteran music producer appears in person at a ticketed ($13-$17) talk to promote his book \u201cAnd the Roots of Rhythm Remain\u201d in an event with a screening of rare clips of Kate Bush with Bulgaria\u2019s Trio Bulgarka, Taj Mahal with kora great Toumani Diabat\u00e9, Ravi Shankar with George Harrison, Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Django Reinhardt, Carmen Miranda, Dizzy Gillespie and more. [6 p.m., Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JustShine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163723\" style=\"width:204px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Philomel Books)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 11\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/sonia-sotomayor-just-shine-how-be-better-you-calvary-presbyterian-sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Sonia Sotomayor<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong>The U.S. Supreme Court Justice celebrates the release of \u201cJust Shine!: How to Be a Better You,\u201d her new children\u2019s book with illustrations by Jacqueline Alc\u00e1ntara and geared to ages 4-8, at a ticketed ($5 for one child and one adult) event in which audience members are invited to pre-submit a question for the jurist. [6 p.m., Calvary Presbyterian, 2515 Fillmore St., San Francisco]\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 11\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"163725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/StJamesPark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163725\"  \/>(Courtesy Koehler Books)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"445\" data-id=\"163726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AndSo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163726\"  \/>(Courtesy Bridge House)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"163728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Written.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163728\"  \/>(Courtesy Vanguard Press)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshopwestportal.com\/event\/2025-09-11\/local-authors-local-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Local Authors &amp; Local Stories<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Fiction writers John Doll (the novel \u201cSt. James Park\u201d); Marisa Gray Atha (the novel \u201cWritten on the Wall\u201d); and Ben C. Davies (the short story collection \u201cAnd So I Took Their Eye\u201d) share their work in a talk moderated by\u00a0 Matthew Clark Davison, author of \u201cDoubting Thomas\u201d and founder of The Lab, a generative writing workshop. [7 p.m., Bookshop West Portal, 80 W. Portal Ave., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 12\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ItsAboutTime.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163765\" style=\"width:148px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Rare Bird Books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copperfieldsbooks.com\/event\/greg-anton-chris-andrian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Greg Anton<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The Sonoma County drummer, co-founder of the rock band Zero and practicing attorney launches his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll novel \u201cIt\u2019s About Time,\u201d about a talented but troubled singer-songwriter facing myriad personal and career challenges in conversation with Sonoma County attorney Chris Andrian. [7 p.m., Copperfield\u2019s, 775 Main St., Santa Rosa]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 12\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DeadMan.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163764\" style=\"width:181px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Random House)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpl.org\/events\/2025\/09\/12\/author-afternoon-sister-helen-prejean-and-dead-man-walking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Helen Prejean<\/a><\/strong>: The\u00a0acclaimed memoirist of 1993\u2019s \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d reflects on its adaptations into film and opera in a free program beginning with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1995 movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, followed by a discussion with Jake Heggie, composer of the opera based on her activism challenging the death penalty. A graphic novel version of \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d is stated for October release. [2 p.m., Koret Auditorium. SF Main Library, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RabbisKnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163766\" style=\"width:174px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Koehler Books)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 13\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/michael-j-cooper-sylvia-boorstien-rabbis-knight-corte-madera-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Michael J. Cooper:<\/strong><\/a> The East Bay resident, a retired pediatric cardiologist and historical fiction writer appears in a conversation with psychologist Sylvia Boorstein about a new revision of his novel \u201cThe Rabbi\u2019s Knight,\u201d set during the Crusades in\u00a0 1290 and telling the story of two men who journey at great risk to Jerusalem to fulfill their destiny as guardians of the Temple Mount. [11 a.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SoulVenture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157151\" style=\"width:131px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Match Point Press)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/ashwin-gulati-soul-venture-corte-madera-store\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashwin Gulati:<\/a><\/strong> The Marin resident, a longtime entrepreneur, executive and start-up consultant, shares \u201cSoul Venture: A True Life and Death Journey Into the Startup\u201d; in his 2025 hybrid memoir\/guidebook he examines \u201cunspoken truths\u201d behind most startup failures, and rare successes. [1 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BrokenKing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163771\" style=\"width:135px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Grove Press)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 15\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylights.com\/events\/michael-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Michael Thomas<\/strong><\/a>: The author of the acclaimed novel \u201cMan Gone Down\u201d shares his first nonfiction work, \u201cThe Broken King\u201d; the memoir focuses his father\u2014a philosopher, baseball fan and absent parent; his estranged older brother; his two sons; and himself. [7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mayor-of-the-Tenderloin-by-Alison-Owings.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141599\" style=\"width:157px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Beacon Press)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 16\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/alison-owings-del-seymour-kevin-fagan-mayor-tenderloin-ferry-building-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Del Seymour, Alison Owings:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 The subject and author of \u201cMayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour\u2019s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco\u201d appear in conversation with veteran reporter Kevin Fagan to promote the paperback release of the book, a portrait of the former addict who founded a San Francisco organization to assist the homeless recovering addicts and other ex-felons. [5:30 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 16\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ReplaceableYou-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163774\" style=\"width:136px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy W.W. Norton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/mary-roach-replaceable-you-adventures-human-anatomy-corte-madera-store-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Mary Roach<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The funny East Bay author and best-selling science writer of \u201cStiff\u201d and \u201cFuzz\u201d discusses her new book, \u201cReplaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,\u201d which covers regenerative medicine, a new field encompassing everything from cataract surgery to hip replacements to gene-edited pig organs. She appears in conversation with science podcaster Marissa Ortega-Welch at a ticketed ($34) live and online event that includes a copy of the book. [6 p.m., Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Negligent.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163775\" style=\"width:143px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy North Atlantic Books)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 17\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com\/events\/685deea46d83b22800d54545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Dr. Vanessa Grubbs<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The Oakland physician, activist and author of \u201cHundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor\u2019s Search for the Perfect Match,\u201d discusses her latest book, \u201cNegligent by Design: Anti-Blackness in American Medicine and How to Address It.\u201d [6:30 p.m., Rockridge Library, 5366 College Ave., Oakland]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 17\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SeaChange.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163776\" style=\"width:138px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Torrey House Press)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/amanda-leland-and-james-workman-sea-change-ferry-building-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>James Workman and Amanda Leland<\/strong><\/a>: Workman, a San Francisco writer, speaker and water consultant, and Leland, executive director of Environmental Defense Fund, share details from \u201cSea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions,\u201d which describes victories that are quietly revolutionizing the fishing industry with a focus on the journey of Texas Gulf Coast commercial fisherman Keith \u201cBuddy\u201d Guindon. [5:30 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 17\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"323\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Daydreamers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163777\" style=\"width:139px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Fiction Collective 2)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylights.com\/events\/alvin-lu-in-conversation-with-stacey-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Alvin Lu<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Appearing in conversation with Stacy Levine, the San Francisco novelist reads from \u201cDaydreamers,\u201d described as a \u201c21st century \u2018Rashomon&#8217;\u201d detailing the adventures of a Taiwanese novelist whose attempt to solve a love-triangle murder takes her to the \u00e9migr\u00e9 Chinese literary world in California. [7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mother.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163894\" style=\"width:135px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Scribner)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityarts.net\/event\/arundhati-roy-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Arundhati Roy<\/strong><\/a>: The award-winning Indian author of \u201cThe God of Small Things\u201d on tour promoting new memoir \u201cMother Mary Comes to Me\u201d appears in conversation with NPR\u2019s Deepa Fernandes in a ticketed ($51-$79 includes book) event\u00a0presented by City Arts &amp; Lectures. [7:30 p.m., Sydney Goldstein Theater, 333 Hayes St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 21\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PleaseFear.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163778\" style=\"width:139px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Fairlight Books)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/jennifer-love-lauren-parker-and-june-martin-please-fear-me-ferry-building-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Jennifer Love<\/strong><\/a>: The Oakland resident speaks about her debut novel \u201cPlease Fear Me,\u201d about a teenage runaway who joins a traveling circus, with poet-artist-zine maker Lauren Parker and fiction writer June Martin, a finalist for a 2025 Lambda Award in Transgender Fiction. [2 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Loneliness.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163779\" style=\"width:159px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Hogarth)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 21\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keplers.org\/upcoming-events-internal\/kirandesai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Kiran Desai:<\/strong><\/a> The best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning \u201cThe Inheritance of Loss\u201d appears to discuss her new novel \u201cThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u201d with novelist Ellen Sussman at a ticketed ($45 includes book; $22 admission only) event. [5 p.m., Kepler\u2019s Books. 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wirewalker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163780\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Regal House Books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylights.com\/events\/james-janko-in-conversation-with-maxine-hong-kingston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>James Janko<\/strong><\/a>: The award-winning writer appears in conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston to launch \u201cThe Wire-Walker,\u201d his 2019-20-set novel about the friendship between a young Palestinian tightrope walker and Israel juggler.\u00a0 [7 p.m., City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Detonator.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163781\" style=\"width:170px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Four Way Books)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 23\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.gopassage.com\/events\/mountford25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Peter Mountford<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The Seattle writer (of novels, essays and stories) and writing coach is promoting his short story collection \u201cDetonator\u201d joined by Bay Area writers Vanessa Hua (\u201cDeceit and Other Possibilities\u201d) and Jon Hickey (\u201cBig Chief\u201d). [7 p.m., Booksmith, 1727 Haight St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 27\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ToTheTemple.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163782\" style=\"width:159px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Grand Central Publishing)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copperfieldsbooks.com\/event\/ed-begley-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Ed Begley Jr:<\/strong><\/a> The actor, serving on the jury of the 2025 Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, signs copies of his new memoir,\u00a0 \u201cTo the Temple of Tranquility\u2026And Step On It!: A Memoir\u201d in which he tells stories of his improbable life, including his relationship with his legendary father, encounters with Hollywood icons, environmental activism, addiction and recovery. [ 7 p.m., Raven Theater, 115 North St., Healdsburg]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ATourToDieFor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163783\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Minotaur Books<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 28\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookpassage.com\/event\/michelle-chouinard-gigi-pandian-tour-die-ferry-building-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Michelle Chouinard<\/strong>:<\/a> The Bay Area writer launches \u201cA Tour to Die For: A Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mystery,\u201d the second in her series featuring Capri Sanzio, a tour guide specializing in serial killers who again finds herself at the center of a murder investigation; Chouinard appears in conversation with Gigi Pandian, multiple-award-winning author of the Secret Staircase mysteries. [2 p.m., Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 27\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"585\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Butterflies1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163786\" style=\"width:177px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Heyday)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenapplebooks.com\/event\/2025-09-27\/offsite-liam-obrien-san-francisco-botanical-garden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Liam O\u2019Brien<\/strong><\/a>: The San Francisco author-illustrator speaks about \u201cButterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond,\u201d his decades-in-the-making guidebook, with Durrell Kapan of the California Academy of Sciences in an event co-hosted by the Helen Crocker Russell Library and Green Apple Books on the Park. [2 p.m., SF Botanical Garden, 1199 Ninth Ave., San Francisco<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rabbis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163787\" style=\"width:184px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Koehler Books)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 28\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcommunitylibrary.org\/events-listing\/kehlmann\/?utm_campaign=Fall+Events%3B+New+Books+and+Ebooks%3B+Night+of+the+Murdered+Poets%3B+and+More&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Robert Kehlmann:<\/strong><\/a> Appearing in conversation with Carole Joffe, the author shares his debut historical novel \u201cThe Rabbi\u2019s Suitcase,\u201d a multi-generational story based on the experiences of his Orthodox Jewish ancestors who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Jerusalem and then to New York. [3 p.m., Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis St., San Francisco]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 30\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Destroy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163790\" style=\"width:149px;height:auto\"  \/>(Courtesy Simon Schuster\/Summit Books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keplers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Amanda Uhle<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> The journalist and executive director\/publisher of McSweeney\u2019s speaks about her\u00a0memoir \u201cDestroy This House,\u201d in which she details her family life growing up\u2013 which switched between being filthy rich and dirt poor, devious and virtuous, fake and real\u2013with Dave Eggers in a ticketed ($45 includes book; $22 admission only) event. [7 p.m., Kepler\u2019s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park]\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 3\u00a0 (Courtesy University of Nebraska Press) Chris Haft: The former reporter who covered the San Francisco Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[29092,29093,29094,29095,29096,29097,29098,29099,29100,29101,29102,14765,29103,29104,359,29105,29106,29107,29108,29109,29110,29111,29112,29113,29114,18,117,29115,29116,19,17,29117,29118,29119,29120,29121,29122,29123,29124,29125,29126,14763,29127,29128,29129,23506,29130,29131,29132,29133,29134,29135,29136,29137,29138,29139,29140,29141,29142,23510,29143,29144,29145,29146,29147,29148,29149,29150,29151,29152,29153,29154,29155,29156,29157,29158,29159,29160],"class_list":{"0":"post-37712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-mother-mary-comes-to-me","9":"tag-a-dime-to-say-i-love-you","10":"tag-a-giant-among-giants","11":"tag-a-tour-to-die-fore","12":"tag-alison-owings","13":"tag-alvin-lu","14":"tag-amanda-leland","15":"tag-amanda-uhle","16":"tag-american-teenage","17":"tag-and-so-i-took-their-eye","18":"tag-and-the-roots-of-rhythm-remain","19":"tag-arundhati-roy","20":"tag-ashwin-gulati","21":"tag-ben-c-davies","22":"tag-books","23":"tag-butterflies-of-the-bay-area","24":"tag-caro-de-robertis","25":"tag-chris-haft","26":"tag-christopher-pepper","27":"tag-daydreamers","28":"tag-dead-man-walking","29":"tag-del-seymour","30":"tag-destroy-this-house","31":"tag-detonator","32":"tag-ed-begley-jr","33":"tag-eire","34":"tag-entertainment","35":"tag-greg-anton","36":"tag-holding-a-memoir-about-mothers-drugs-and-other-comforts","37":"tag-ie","38":"tag-ireland","39":"tag-its-about-time","40":"tag-james-janko","41":"tag-james-workman","42":"tag-jennifer-love","43":"tag-joanna-schroeder","44":"tag-joe-boyd","45":"tag-john-doll","46":"tag-just-shine","47":"tag-karleigh-frisbie-brogan","48":"tag-kathryn-henry","49":"tag-kiran-desai","50":"tag-kiran-desali","51":"tag-liam-obrien","52":"tag-marisa-gray-atha","53":"tag-mary-roach","54":"tag-mayor-of-the-tenderoin","55":"tag-meg-waite-clayton","56":"tag-michael-j-cooper","57":"tag-michael-thomas","58":"tag-michelle-chouinard","59":"tag-negligent-by-design","60":"tag-nico-lang","61":"tag-northern-california-book-awards","62":"tag-paul-yamazaki","63":"tag-peter-mann","64":"tag-peter-mountford","65":"tag-please-fear-me","66":"tag-rebecca-solnit","67":"tag-replaceable-you","68":"tag-robert-kehlmann","69":"tag-sea-changel-unlikely-allies-and-a-success-story-of-oceanic-proportions","70":"tag-sister-helen-prejean","71":"tag-so-many-stars","72":"tag-sonia-sotomayor","73":"tag-soul-venture","74":"tag-st-james-park","75":"tag-talk-to-your-boys","76":"tag-the-broken-king","77":"tag-the-lonelieness-of-sonia-and-sunny","78":"tag-the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny","79":"tag-the-rabbis-knight","80":"tag-the-rabbis-suitcase","81":"tag-the-wire-walker","82":"tag-to-the-temple-of-tranquility","83":"tag-typewriter-beach","84":"tag-vanessa-grubbs","85":"tag-written-on-the-wall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}