Notable San Francisco 5/21-5/27

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This week in San Francisco!

Monday 5/21: Lit Slam hosts Karrie Waarala, a “”a multifaceted, sword-swallowingly sharp writer not to be missed.” $5, 8pm Viracocha.

Tuesday 5/22: Two time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey reads from his recently released The Chemistry of Tears. Hosted by City Lights and Litquake. Free, 7pm, Cafe Tosca.

Thursday 5/24: Poet and SFSU professor Jennifer Arin reads from Ways We Hold. Free, 8pm, Farleys.

Friday 5/25: Miranda Mellis and Anna Joy Springer are on for a doubleheader at Green Apple. Mellis reads from her latest None of this is Real, and Springer from her memoir The Vicious Red Relic, Love, described as “a coming-of-age in the mid 90s Bay Area queer and punk scene, tackling issues of sex work, HIV and identity in a hybrid method of storytelling.” Free, 7:30 Green Apple.

Saturday 5/26: Gay Shame hosts the Queer Vegan Anti-Social at Modern Times Books. All orientations welcome. Free, 6pm.

Sunday 5/27: Free movie day at Castro Theater (Hemingway and Gellhon, 5pm) and Berkeley Underground.

Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages. More from this author →