San Francisco Metro: Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · Literary & Spoken Word · 3 events · data version 20261021-173303
7:30 PM · Two-Way Book Party & Concert · Bird & Beckett (Glen Park) · literary, live_music · rating 8
birdbeckett.com · details Two-Way Mirror books celebrates the release of its latest books: Danny Rosen‘s A Love Poem Called War and J Grabowski‘s POMPEI: or The Notes Are In The World, with music by J Lee’s Starry Skemes. Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts.
Each morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita, Colorado. Early on he learned to swing a hammer and that changed everything.
11:00 AM · Sunday Assembly · Santa Cruz Public Library (Santa Cruz) · community, literary · rating 5
santacruzpl.libnet.info · details Local chapter of a global secular (non-religious) movement of people who meet to celebrate life together in congregations and communities around the world. Meets 2nd Sunday of the month 11am to 1 pm.
3:00 PM · Kyle Parry 'Ways of Seeing After Dark' Book Party · Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (North Beach) · literary · rating 5
specsbarsf.com · details Kyle Parry is a writer and professor with a new book: Ways of Seeing After Dark. He teaches at UC Santa Cruz in a department called History of Art and Visual Culture, or HAVC. Long obsessed with birds, now also obsessed with the moon, he lives in San Francisco with his partner and daughter.
Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it.