Help Wanted: San Francisco needs a new book editor.
This weekend: Check out Saturday’s Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival. Highlights include an impressive line up of poets reading their work and the city’s Pass it Forward Book Exchange.
Sunday in the sunshine: This year’s West Hollywood Book Fair features headliner Ray Bradbury and three hundred other writers and artists. The kick-off event is Saturday night’s Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award Soiree.
Up next: Banned Book Week is Sept. 27-Oct. 4. Browse bookstore events around California and elsewhere here.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
You can shop online from your local independent booksellers.