Over the last few weeks, we've seen devastating cuts to federal arts funding. This funding has been critical in supporting our mission to publish great literature from around the world.

Join us this Saturday for a fundraiser, pop-up, and party, hosted by KQED's Alexis Madrigal, author of The Pacific Circuit, and Lauren Markham, author of Immemorial, part of Transit's Undelivered Lectures series, at Womb House Books.

Bring your friends, your kids, yourselves for an evening in the alley to support Transit Books and celebrate our literary community in the Bay.

Lauren Markham’s work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and the critically-acclaimed A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging. Her new book, Immemorial, was published in 2025.

Alexis Madrigal is a journalist in Oakland, California. He's the co-host of KQED’s current affairs show, Forum, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where he co-founded The COVID Tracking Project. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Fusion and a staff writer at Wired.