Writing in Lockdown - Brown Handler Resident Shruti Swamy in conversation Daniel Handler. Shruti Swamy, Brown Handler Resident and author of the forthcoming A House Is A Body from Algonquin press, starts off our new author series, Writing in Lockdown. Shruti will be reading the short story "The Siege," from her collection, and will discuss writing in isolation, favorite library branches, and the publishing industry with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). Go to FriendsSFPL.org to learn...

Live event from Tuesday, 6/9/2020 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm. Aconversation about The Power of Scrappy in all industries. Diana Kapp, a business journalist, author of Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business, Emily Pilloton, Founder and Executive Director of Girls Garage. Author of the new book Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See Walter Thompson, Senior Editor at TechCrunch and previously City Editor for Hoodline.

Alan Wong is a Librarian at the busy Excelsior Branch, who currently mobilized as a 'Disaster Service Worker' in the wake of COVID-19. We spoke with Alan (via mobile phone) to see how librarians are helping the City of San Francisco during this turbulent time. (For the full interview go to www.FriendsSFPL.org)

Welcome to a special episode of the Library Friends Podcast! Today we’re going to hear a presentation from the Mary Louise Stong Society Legacy Giving Breakfast, and listen to a Q and A afterward.

Chaney is a part of our inaugural class of Handler Brown Residents. A San Francisco based travel and short story writer, Chaney is working on his debut novel. For this show, we will be listening to a reading of Chaney’s short story Admission and talking about the story with the author.

K-Fai is a part of our inaugural class of Handler Brown Residents. A children's book author, and a San Francisco based artist. Noodlephant by Jacob Kramer and illustrated by K-Fai is out now with Enchanted Lion. A Normal Pig, her debut author-illustrator book comes out in June 2019 with Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.