Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief, a piercing and propulsive tour de force, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes author, editor, and poet John Freeman for a conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita about his new book California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New Literature. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. "In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, […]

  Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi who, after a decade, returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. "John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent, and irreverent. I haven't […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, for a reading and signing of her acclaimed novel Creation Lake, available in paperback July 1st. This "wickedly entertaining" (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France is a propulsive […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman, award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon's book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, […]

What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She's Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Chris Brenner and Manuel Pastor for a reading and signing of their new book Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future—a clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy. "Charging Forward brilliantly uses the Valley to illustrate what's at stake as we move to a clean […]

The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Gary Young and Elizabeth Robinson at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Gary Young is a poet, artist, and translator. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, among them That’s What I Thought, and American Analects, both from Persea Books. His other books include Precious Mirror, translations […]

Bookshop welcomes Dana Frank, UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita of History, for a discussion about her new book What Can We Learn from the Great Depression?: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. "The most important book on the Great […]