Open marriages, polycules, orgies, reconceiving the shape of family, falling in love with two people at the same time, a Google Calendar so crammed it brings the main character to her knees. Come hear the newest polyamory stories from the beating heart of America’s homeland for relationship rebels, misfits, and pioneers. This free event is part of Lit Crawl, the final pub-crawl-like night of San Fransisco’s biggest literary festival Litquake.

There will be a reading at the bar before and after this one.

Check out the rest of the evening‘s events here: https://litcrawlsf2026.sched.com/list/simple

For those who are interested, there will be a Lit Crawl After Party from 9-11 at The Drawing Room Annex located at 599 Valencia St at 17th and Valencia. Join for music and libations at the open bar featuring Griffo Distillery and Saintsbury Winery. Entry is $10 NOTAFLOF. You can grab your ticket in advance here:

In the latest addition to the inimitable Walter Mosley’s  Joe King Oliver series, King finds himself accepting (again at his grandmother’s request) a case from Arman Babylon, a powerful Los Angeles gangster now dying from cancer. Babylon’s granddaughter, Twyla Mann, has been missing for years, and he’s desperate to find her before he passes. The search pulls King into the Babylons’ stained past and the cold case of Dalia Shorts, a torch singer who vanished without a trace and whom Arman was once suspected of killing. As King follows her trail from L.A. to New York and back, he’ll realize nothing is what it seems as he uncovers a pattern of violence that has targeted the women around Babylon for decades. How much will King be willing to risk to finally set things right? In conversation with Carvell Wallace. Doors at 6:00pm. 

Mark your calendars for Pegasus x @Litquake next month! 🥳 Thrilled to host a launch party with Asale Angel-Ajani and Carvell Wallace

On Tuesday, October 13 at 7pm at Pegasus Bpoks Downtown, we’ll be celebrating the release of Asale Angel-Ajani’s “FUGITIVE ARCHIVES: An American Family and the Myth of Belonging”—an incisive, lyrical exploration of one family’s history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging.

Free and open to the public. Please RSVP on the @Litquake site. Books will be available for signing—see you there!

Join us for a night of writing on kink! Celebrating the release of M. K. Thekkumkattil's "The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals," five queer and trans BIPOC writers will read prose and poems based on their kink experiences.

Free and open to the public. The event takes place on our mezzanine level, up six stairs or a wheelchair-accessible lift. Masks strongly encouraged for this event, and masks are available. The bookstore remains open to the public during the event; customers etc. may not be masked. For other accessibility questions or requests, feel free to reach out to events@pegasusbookstore.com. See you there!

Join Callaloo, the premier journal of African Diaspora arts and letters, for an intimate literary conversation between acclaimed writers Carvell Wallace and Keenan Norris as they explore the delicate art of turning lived experience into compelling narrative. Wallace and Norris will discuss what it means to write oneself—and one's community and family—onto the page: the vulnerability, the craft, the ethical tightropes, and the unexpected discoveries that come with nonfiction and memoir. Moderated by Callaloo's Executive Editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, don't miss this chance to hear two distinctive Black male writers reflect on their work.

Please join us this Saturday for the First Ever Temescal Alley Book Festival! Event is free and open to the public from 12pm to 6pm. Afterparty to follow at 6:30pm with readings from:

Tomas Moniz

Kate Folk

Amanda Montei

Carvell Wallace

Join us on Saturday, April 25 when we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day across all three of our locations! Join us from 10am-9pm at Green Apple Books (Clement St.), Green Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave.), and Browser Books (Fillmore St.)

All Day: Magnetic Poetry, Blind Date with a Book, Books from the Future

• 12-4pm: Pop ups from Moonlit Mercantile Tea, Crocheted Goodies by Lindsay, and Tarot by Dreamseed Alkhemy

• 5-8pm: Author Karaoke Benefiting Books Not Bans! Featuring Kevin Dublin, R.O. Kwon, Tomas Moniz, sam sax, and Carvell Wallace. Authors sing, then the audience gets a turn! All proceeds benefit Books Not Bans. 
  RSVP at this link! 

The Spring Installment of Empty Trash on Sunday, April 19th @ 7pm atThe Semi-Tropic in Echo Park. It will also serve as the unofficial afterparty for this year's LATFoB! 

Here is our star-studded spring lineup:

⭐Rasheed Newson⭐

⭐Elaine Hsieh Chou⭐

⭐Carvell Wallace⭐

⭐Emily Nemens⭐

⭐Parvati Shallow⭐

⭐Kim Samek⭐

⭐Allie Rowbottom⭐

⭐Christina Hammonds Reed⭐

Authors will read something that has been cut, killed, unpublished, or otherwise sitting in the bowels of your computer, waiting to see the light of day.

We are honored, elated to be hosting writer Carvell Wallace for our next literary afternoon. Wednesday 4/8/26, from 2:30-3:30 pm at Hagerty Lounge in the Saint Mary’s College campus.

Carvell Wallace is the author of Another Word For Love, a Kirkus Finalist in Nonfiction and a winner of the PEN Oakland prize. Wallace has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, and the New Yorker.
Free and open to the public ✨✨

Wallace will be in conversation with the esteemed, talented Yutong Li

As audiences increasingly engage with audiobooks and streaming, literary podcasts are a vital and growing space for writing communities. Many new shows blend literature, music, criticism, and sound design, moving beyond standard author interviews to create a hybrid audio form.

Some questions we’ll consider: How can sound amplify the written word? How do we elevate voices through this evolving medium? What do audiences want to hear? What are the creative possibilities of the form?

We’ll also explore the creative and logistical aspects of partnering with media outlets, literary publishers, and university-based literary journals.

This conversation dives into a medium rapidly outpacing print, asking: Why podcasting? Why now? What does the future of literary podcasting hold? And what new possibilities emerge in the space between text and sound?

·  Jessica Hendry Nelson (moderator) (Blackbird Literary Podcast, Producer)  

·  Trey Burnart Hall (Blackbird Literary Podcast, Lead Podcast Editor) (collage, journal)

·  Carvell Wallace (Closer Than They Appear, Finding Fred, Mom and Dad Are Fighting) (podcast creator, hybrid interview/nonfiction)

 Dawnie Walton THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV (2021), cofounder and editorial director of Ursa Story Company

YES!! Y'all, Join us December 5th at 7pm for the release of our Fall resident, Quinn Edlin's RAD new book "Unburdened: An exploration of Shame in Short Story, Interview & Essay" with readings from LT Schuster and Carvell Wallace and screening from Gisele Herrera

Litquake presents the creators and writers for The Approach, a new free newspaper, at City Lights for a conversation about the role of art, writing, and ideas in our age of rapidly accelerating autocracy. Moderated by Lauren Markham with Chris Feliciano Arnold, Justin Carder, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Carvell Wallace – This event will be held in Kerouac Alley (between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe) It is free to the public.

Announcing a new monthly reading series at Clio's Books in Oakland!

I've been asked to be the featured reader at the inaugural event where I'll be debuting brand new fiction and talking about alternative ideas of utopia.

I would love to see you there!

Thursday Sept 4, 7:30pm
Clio's Books
353 Grand Ave
Oakland, CA 94610

Join us on Monday, June 23 at 6pm PT when we welcome Niko Stratis to celebrate her essay collection, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, on Zoom! Niko will be in conversation with author Carvell Wallace.

Free to Attend, RSVP is required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_51-Mp5bkSTau4wHnNmsSdw#/

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.

Carvell Wallace and Sadie Barnette in conversation to celebrate the paperback release of Another Word For Love

Sadie Barnette is a conceptual artists whose work is in permanent collections at the Guggenheim, LACMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Walker, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and others. Her work has been equally influenced by the history of conceptual art, Bay Area rappers, anxiety, car culture, and Hello Kitty. She is from Oakland, CA

Mark your calendars for Thursday, Feb. 20th to make sure you can be at the Hammer Theatre at 6:30PM or live streamed from anywhere else!

The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present author Carvell Wallace in a reading from Another Word for Love, a transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing with immense grief in the wake of his wife’s untimely death. In Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir, PRIYANKA MATTOO chronicles her search for home across 40 years and 32 addresses. From leaving her beloved Kashmir as a child amid mounting violence and finding – and losing – friendships in a Saudi Arabian compound to finally settling in Los Angeles, she shares her nomadic existence with wit and wisdom. And in CARVELL WALLACE’s Another Word for Love: A Memoir, he excavates layers of his history growing up Black and queer in America, reimagines the conventions of love, and posits a radical vision for healing. Moderated by writer YVONNE CONZA.

join us in community for readings from Essie J Chambers (SWIFT RIVER), Asha Tanki (A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE), & Carvell Wallace (ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE), along with hosts Temim Fruchter & Brian Gresko with books provided by our partner Greenlight Bookstore

Author, podcaster, and memoirist, Carvell Wallace will discuss his book, Another Word for Love. Books made available for purchase by A Great Good Place for Books can be signed after the discussion.

(This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Rockridge Library.)

Three acclaimed writers—Morgan Parker, Carvell Wallace, and sam sax—offer bold, deeply personal takes on healing in a world that resists it. From mental health and identity to queerness and survival, their recent works reimagine what self-love can look like today. Moderated by Traci Thomas.

Co-presented with The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco

Don’t miss your chance to see Joy Sullivan, Carvell Wallace, Jamie Loftus, and Danielle Durack in an evening jam-packed with some serious talent as well as some unserious fun. It wouldn’t be Live Wire without a good mix of the two!

Join Gilman Brewing and the Bay Area literary community for an evening of readings in support of East Bay Booksellers' fire recovery. The event is free to attend and donations are encouraged!

Hosted by Green Apple Books on the Park’s Kar Johnson.

Featuring:

Mac Barnett
Jasmine Guillory
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
José Vadi
Carvell Wallace
Alexis Madrigal

POSSIBLY MORE! Who could dare to say?!

Raffle items available from friends at Farley’s Coffee, Pegasus Books McSweeney's Spectator Books, Transit Books, Two Lines Press, University of Texas Press & more!

Shawn Taylor is a writer, university lecturer, and communications coach and consultant. He is a lifelong music fan, and spends much of his time listening to bootlegs of his favorite bands, and trying to introduce his daughter to new music. His new book, The Alphabet for New and Expecting Fathers will be released around Father’s Day 2024.

Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. Her work encompasses writing, speaking, teaching, mentoring, and activism.

She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, which gave rise to a popular TED Talk. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. Her third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, has been called a “groundbreakingly frank” guide to adulthood.

Julie holds a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law, an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Puget Sound. She serves on the CCA Board of Trustees.

She lives in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, where she serves on the City Council and advocates for housing, equity, climate, and youth mental health. She and her lifelong partner Dan are parents to two twentysomethings, and they share a home with their grown son and Julie’s amazing octogenarian mother.

R. O. Kwon’s Exhibit, a novel, will publish in May 2024 with Riverhead. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize, as well as five other prizes. Kwon and Garth Greenwell coedited the bestselling anthology Kink, recipient of the inaugural Joy Award and a New York Times Notable Book.

Nayomi Munaweera is an award-winning novelist. Her debut, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region and was short-listed for the DSC Prize and Man Asia Prizes. It was chosen as a Target Book Club book. Her second novel What Lies Between Us, won the Sri Lankan National Book Award and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Prize. The Huffington Post raved, “Munaweera’s prose is visceral and indelible, devastatingly beautiful-reminiscent of the glorious writings of Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan and Alice Walker, who also find ways to truth-tell through fiction.”  She is proud of all her writing students from various MFAs and in her Writing Covens.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and most recently Take My Hand (2022). Take My Hand was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and named a Top 20 Book of the Year by the Editors at Amazon. It was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction, the 2023 BCALA Award for Fiction, and received the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. Dolen is currently Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.

Jordan Kisner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the essay collection Thin Places. Formerly, she was a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and her essays and features have also appeared in The Believer, n+1, the Yale Review, Harper's magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and others. She runs the interviews project and podcast Thresholds, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Bowdoin College.

Dani McClain reports on race, reproductive health, and activism. She is a contributing writer at The Nation and served as Cincinnati public library’s Writer-in-Residence in 2020 and 2021. We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood was published by Bold Type Books in 2019.