Community Cultural Center
Jenny Offill - Weather Presented by Point Reyes BooksFriday, February 21, 2020 - 7:00pm Jenny Offill, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the bookstore's Stephen Sparks. About Weather: Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a […]
SOLD OUT - Please note, all attendees must show proof of vaccination, sign in on contact tracing sheets, and must be masked throughout the event. Point Reyes Books presents Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell in conversation about Solnit's latest book, Orwell's Roses. Proof of vaccination status required for all attendees; contact tracing sign-in required. Depending […]
Javier Zamora and Dave Eggers In conversation about Zamora's highly anticipated memoir, Solito Facebook Twitter Pinterest Saturday, September 17, 2022 - 4:00pm Dance Palace 503 B St. Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 Tickets: Free, donations appreciated Javier Zamora joins us for a conversation about his highly anticipated memoir, Solito (Hogarth), with acclaimed writer Dave Eggers. “In luminous prose, in harrowing and fierce […]
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We regret to announce that this event has been CANCELED due to illness. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please visit Point Reyes Books (ptreyesbooks.com) for information regarding their events. *This event is held independently at the community center. Please contact the organizer directly for up-to-date information regarding the event.
Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass join Point Reyes Books for a reading and conversation about In a Few Minutes Before Later (Wesleyan U.P.), the latest collection from the International Griffin Poetry Prize-winner.
Please visit Point Reyes Books (ptreyesbooks.com) for information regarding their events. *This event is held independently at the community center. Please contact the organizer directly for up-to-date information regarding the event.
elby Wynn Schwartz joins us to celebrate the U.S. publication of her Booker Prize-longlisted novel, After Sappho (Liveright). "After Sappho is a project of both imagination and intimacy, but also of significant research. Schwartz’s protagonists are all real people, but she has captured the essence of their lives and identities by means of what she describes as 'speculative […]
Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing, returns to Point Reyes for a conversation with bookstore co-owner Stephen Sparks about her highly anticipated new book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock(Random House). “This fiercely generous new book by Jenny Odell invites us to exit the superhighways and explore the scenic detours, byways, rebel […]
Local artist Keith Hansen joins us to celebrate the publication of Birds of Point Reyes (Heyday Books). This in-person event will be held at the Dance Palace. "A compact treasury of natural history knowledge." --Burr Heneman, former executive director of Point Reyes Bird Observatory "A meditation on beauty and survival." --Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck […]
Christina Gerhardt & Rachel Brahinsky In conversation about Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean Facebook Twitter Pinterest Saturday, August 19, 2023 - 4:00pm Dance Palace Church Space 503 B St. Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 Tickets: Free, donations welcome Christina Gerhardt is joined by Rachel Brahinsky for a conversation about Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands […]
Elizabeth Rush Pulitzer Prize finalist in conversation about her new book, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth Saturday, September 16, 2023 - 4:00pm Dance Palace Church Space 503 B St. Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 Tickets: Free, donations welcome Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Rush joins us for a conversation about her new book, The Quickening: Creation […]
Join us for the conversation we don’t usually have about housing segregation Leah Rothstein, co-author of Just Action, will be in West Marin on Oct 7 to discuss how we came to be such a segregated society and what we can do to begin to change this. Racialdisparities in economic opportunity, affordable housing, jobs, education, […]
Pulitzer Prize finalist Rosanna Xia joins us for a conversation about her new book, California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline (Heyday Books). "Viscerally urgent, thoroughly reported, and compellingly written--a must-read for our uncertain times." --Ed Yong, author of An Immense World Free, registration encouraged Contact Point Reyes Books for more information. About California Against the Sea […]
Please visit Point Reyes Books for information about this and all of their upcoming events. *This event is held independently at the community center. Please contact the organizer directly for up-to-date information regarding the event, including mask policies. Please note, masks are still requested in the common spaces in the Dance Palace; masks are available […]
Local writer Manjula Martin launches her anticipated book, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History (Pantheon). "The Last Fire Season is a gorgeous, soulfully written, intricately layered meditation on a region, a state, a body and a planet. Manjula Martin brings deep research, love, and attention to her exploration of northern California in polycrisis and weaves her […]
We celebrate local poet Jesse Nathan's new collection, Eggtooth (Unbound Edition Press). with readings by award-winning poets Karen Solie and Forrest Gander. This is a free event. No registration required. About the poetsJesse Nathan was raised in northern California and rural Kansas. He was a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series, and teaches in the English […]
Greg King joins us to discuss his highly praised book, The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods (PublicAffairs). “The Ghost Forest is long overdue. The book is a page‑turner, a calibrated adventure of the highest sort. At last we have a comprehensive accounting of the entire ancient redwood ecosystem that once stood, […]
Translator Patty Crane reads from and discusses her translations of Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer, recently published in The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer (Copper Canyon Press). “A poem by Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer is one in which ‘consciousness can take hold of the world/ like a hand clutching a sun-warmed stone.’ Tranströmer’s grasp […]
Zoë Schlanger visits to discuss her new book, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Harper). Ed Yong, bestselling author of The Immense World, will join Zoë in conversation.
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Paul Yamazaki, who has been the principal buyer at City Lights Bookstore for over fifty years, joins Stephen Sparks for a conversation about Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale (Ode Books).
Joel Whitney reads from his new book, Flights: Radicals on the Run (OR Books). “Mind-bending . . . so profound and original it defies a brief endorsement.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States This free event will be held at the Dance Palace Church Space. No registration required. About Flights: Radicals on the Run […]
Laura Marris visit Point Reyes to discuss her debut essay collection, Age of Loneliness (Graywolf Press). “The Age of Loneliness is a stunning book that will become a close friend, and like all good friends, it will change the shape of our world. Both personal and planetary, roving in its intelligence and deeply rooted in its lyrical observation, […]
A conversation about Hillman's collection of lectures, Three Talks Brenda Hillman joins us in Point Reyes to discuss her new book of lectures, Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and Morality (UVA Press). Bob Hass will server as interlocutor. "Hillman has charted her own unusual course, borrowing things—a mixture of conversational and high-lyric diction, […]
Jeff Miller and Obi Kaufmann join us at the Dance Palace to discuss their new collaboration, Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide (Heyday Books). "Breezy to read, bite-sized accounts of fascinating creatures, be they colossal or minute, obvious or clandestine, slimy or sinewy, and furred, feathered or finned, hold the reader’s attention. This lovingly irreverent perspective on […]
Lauren Markham visits to discuss her new book, Immemorial, the latest volume in Transit Books' Undelivered Lectures series. Lauren will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Solnit. This event is presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge. "Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."--Publishers Weekly […]
Allison Carruth is joined in conversation by Forum's Alexis Madrigal about her new book, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (University of Chicago Press).“Novel Ecologies is the first full-scale study of a pervasive but under-examined phenomenon: Silicon Valley eco-optimism: a tech-driven, future-colonizing enterprise eager to replace a damaged planet with Nature Remade. Against this fantasy […]
Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar stop in Point Reyes on their West Coast driving tour. The writers will discuss their critically acclaimed novels, Wandering Stars and Martyr!, one of the NY Times Ten Best Books of 2024.
Liese Greensfelder reads from her memoir, Accidental Shepherd: How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway (University of Minnesota Press). "Accidental Shepherd keeps an open, smart, frank tone, and Liese Greensfelder's good humor working through problems shines. The farm animals come wonderfully through—especially the sheep and difficult lamb birth. She offers a good balance of […]
Brooke Williams is joined by Gavin Van Horn for a conversation about his new book, Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment (Uphill Books). Free admission.
Local poet and translator Alana Levinson-Labrosse joins us for a conversation about her new book, Dream State: A Commonplace Book (Unnamed Press).
Carol Moldaw and National Book Award winner Arthur Sze join Point Reyes Books for a poetry reading and conversation to celebrate their recent collections, Go Figure (Four Way Books) and Into the Hush (Copper Canyon).
Robert Macfarlane visits Point Reyes to discuss his new book, Is a River Alive? (W.W. Norton). The renowned nature writer and author of the best-selling Underland delivers a revelatory book that transforms how we look at the natural world—and life itself. Update 6/9/25: Both events are now SOLD OUT. If you have not registered and are interested in attending, please […]
Celebrate the release of local author and Point Reyes Books' store manager Samantha Kimmey's debut novel, The Extremities! Sam will be joined in conversation by KWMR's Jordan Bowen. Free event. Please see the Point Reyes Books event page for more information. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of […]
Cricket Riley and Alice Kitajima visit Pt. Reyes to discuss their new book, Designing the Lush Dry Garden: Create a Climate-Resilient Low-Water Paradise. This is a free event. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does not constitute or imply endorsement of any […]
Poet Jane Hirshfield, novelist David James Duncan, and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee join Point Reyes Books' owner Stephen Sparks for the North American launch of Emergence Magazine Vol. 6: Seasons. Ticket information available at ptreyesbooks.com. Please see the Point Reyes Books events page for more information! *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community […]
Information forthcoming. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does not constitute or imply endorsement of any group, event, or viewpoint. Events must comply with all laws and our facility use policies. This event is a rental.
Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften discuss their new book, Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities (Heyday Books) at this event presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge. "As we enter an era of climate shifts and more frequent, layered catastrophes, this is the book you want beside you to navigate the realities of disaster and recovery." —Candis […]
Rebecca Solnit joins Point Reyes Books to discuss her latest collection of essays, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change (Haymarket Books). Each ticket purchase includes a copy of the book. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does […]
*The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does not constitute or imply endorsement of any group, event, or viewpoint. Events must comply with all laws and our facility use policies.
Terry Tempest Williams returns to Point Reyes to discuss her new book, The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (Grove Press). "I go to Terry Tempest Williams for the reasons I go to Whitman and Thoreau: to recover a capacious spirit and to rejoin the urgent living world. She gives me something bigger than hope."―Richard Powers, author […]
Bestselling author Suzanne Simard visits Point Reyes to discuss her new book, When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World (Knopf). “A masterclass on the inner workings of forests—a lush glimpse at the symphonic mutualisms and intergenerational cascades that sustain life at every scale. Simard, one of the boundary-pushing scientists of our time, is […]
Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften discuss their new book, Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities (Heyday Books) at this event presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge. For more information, visit Point Reyes Books. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does […]
Bolinas-based artist and illustrator Sophie Wood Brinker joins us for a conversation with Lisa Olivera about her new book, Birds of Santa Cruz (Heyday Books). This is a free event. No registration required. Please visit Point Reyes Books to get information! *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. […]
Point Reyes Books presents Rep. Jared Huffman for a conversation about his new book, No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism (W.W. Norton). Local writer Chris Jennings will serve as interlocutor. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Point Reyes Books event listing. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by […]
Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman join us at the Dance Palace to celebrate their new books, A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World (Copper Canyon) and Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation (Wesleyan U.P.) Visit Point Reyes Books for more information. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups […]
Please visit Point Reyes Books for more information. *The Dance Palace is a neutral venue available for rental by community groups of varied perspectives. Rental of our space does not constitute or imply endorsement of any group, event, or viewpoint. Events must comply with all laws and our facility use policies. This event is a […]