Literary guide, June 18
Kassidat — Father’s Day Edition Poetry reading with James Ellis, Bear, Global Val, Tongo, Richard Sanderell, Kim Shuck, Windwong. 4 p.m. Adobe Books 3130 24th St., S.F. (415) 864-3936. www.adobebooks.com.
Michael Krasny, Jane Smiley “Golden Age.”
4:30 p.m. Sebastopol Community Cultural Center, 390 Morris St., Sebastopol. www.seb.org.
2 p.m. Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery St., S.F. (415) 586-3733. www.birdbeckett.com.
Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times.
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution.
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Christopher Merrill “Self-Portrait with Dogwood.”
Stephen Hinshaw “Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness.”
Cleve Jones, Mark Leno “When We Rise, Stitching a Revolution.”
Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org.
Barry Lancet “The Spy Across the Table.”
7 p.m. Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee Machine, Platform, Crowd:
Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org.
7 p.m. Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut St., S.F. (415) 931-3633. www.booksinc.net.
Commonwealth Club, 555 Post St., S.F. (415) 597-6705. www.commonwealthclub.org.
Crime and Punishment in Black America.
Paul Hawken “A Plan to Combat Climate Change.”
Finn Murphy “The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road.”
Paula Poundstone “The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness.”
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Alexandra Ballard, Danielle Mages Amato, Rachel Sarah Ballard’s “What I Lost” and Amato’s “The Hidden Memory of Objects.”
Prison University Project “Open Line.”
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia.
Elaine Miller Bond “Running Wild” and “Living Wild.”
6 p.m. Diesel, 5433 College Ave., Oakland.
Barbara Bonner “Inspiring Courage.”
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
Barry Lancet “The Spy Across the Table.”
1 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera.
How To Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear & Worry.