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 Kar Johnson. Feel free to donate before the event here!

Featuring

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

Raffle items available from Farley’s Coffee, Pegasus Books, McSweeney’s, Spectator Books, Transit Books, Two Lines Press, University of Texas Press, and more

“On Tuesday morning July 30th, 2024 the building housing East Bay Booksellers burned down. The building was home to dozens of offices along with the bookstore. It has also been a community home, an intellectual home, an artistic home and literary home for so many, for the last 30 years. In a beautiful old building from the ’40s it was reimagined by the Wilsons to provide all of these services, inside its hollow-brick walls, and glorious wooden ceiling with clerestory windows.

As fellow booksellers, and as friends of Brad and the Bay Area reading community we are joining with others to hopefully raise some funds to help East Bay Booksellers’ booksellers, Brad and the store find their way back to being the vital bookstore that it is. Please donate what you can to rebuild this civil and cultural bookstore. We’ll all appreciate it and don’t know how it will happen without each of us.~ Booksellers for East Bay Booksellers”

Author Bios

Mac Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. Mac’s books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil. He is the co-creator, with Jon Klassen, of Shape Island, a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books. Mac lives in Oakland, California.

Jasmine Guillory is a New York Times bestselling author of novels including The Wedding Date, the Reese’s Book Club selection The Proposal, and Drunk on Love. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time, and she is a frequent book contributor on The Today Show. She lives in Oakland, California.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author Also an Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea, Squad, illustrated by Lisa Sterle, and Love in the Library illustrated by Yas Imamura with more books forthcoming.She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, son, and objectively perfect dog.

José Vadi is an award-winning essayist, poet, playwright and film producer. He is the author of Inter State: Essays from California and Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens. His work has been featured by the Paris Review, The Atlantic, the PBS NewsHour, the San Francisco Chronicle, Free Skate Magazine, Quartersnacks, Alta Journal of California, and the Yale Review.

Carvell Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and parenting for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Pitchfork, MTV News and others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was the Slate parenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling basketball memoir The Sixth Man with Andre Iguodala, and the 2024 memoir Another Word for Love. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants.

Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of KQED’s Forum and the author of the forthcoming book from MCDxFSG, The Pacific Circuit.