Thursday, November 5, 2026, 3:00 AM - 6:00 AM ยท City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, North Beach, San Francisco
Author Rae Alexandra presents the stories of 35 Bay Area women who shaped the region's social, cultural and political life, drawn from her book Unsung Heroines. Tickets are $5 for club members and students and $10 for non-members.
Three-floor independent bookstore at the corner of Columbus and Jack Kerouac Alley that doubles as a publisher, the press launched the Pocket Poets Series in the fifties and has been printing books from the same address ever since. The poetry room on the upper floor is the reason most people make the climb; the ground floor runs the full range from biography to Beat literature to local zines. Open late, every day.