This week in San Francisco!
Monday 9/12: Join us and our friends at the Believer Magazine for Let’s Talk About us, September’s Monthly Rumpus-tonight at the Make-Out Room, 7PM $10. Featuring brilliant authors Michelle Tea, Susan Straight, Jesus Angel Garcia, David Rocklin, music by Hate Factory and a Kendama demonstration by the Kengarden.
Tuesday 9/13: Successful Kickstarter project Unsolicited Poetry Tour comes to Adobe Books’ Backroom Gallery. The night features San Francisco native Bill Berkson and New Orleans poet David Rowe. 8PM FREE.
Wednesday 9/14: Novelist and short story writer Andrew Sean Greer is reading at San Jose State’s Center for Literary Arts. He is a bestselling author of four books and has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review. 7PM FREE
Thursday 9/15: Juliana Spahr reads from her new volume of poetry Well Then There Now at City Lights. This is Spahr’s newest collection and covers ground from her childhood in Hawaii, wanderings in Appalachia, and her recent work out of Berkeley, all the while “tracking change – in ecology, society, economies, herself.” 7PM FREE. The San Francisco Center for the Book is holding an opening party for its 15 year retrospective exhibition tonight, 6PM FREE.
Friday 9/16: A mini series on Latino short films at the DeYoung tonight, from 6-9PM. Celebrate 23 up and coming Bay Area artists at the closer for Frontrunners at SOMArts from 6:30-9PM. Includes drinks, tacos, and entertainment provided by local folk band Yesway. FREE.
Saturday 9/17: Michal Moore (2PM, Opera Plaza) and Alice Waters (1PM, Omnivore Books) are both reading from and signing in their newest releases. The Mission’s 4th annual Rock Make Art & Music Street Festival is happening from 12-7PM, featuring local musicians and scores of artists and craft booths.
Sunday 9/18: Make it over the bridge for Mill Valley Public Library’s Joy of Censorship, a traveling show by MAD Magazine Senior Editor Joe Raiola, who touches on today’s first amendment controversies as well as MAD’s role as a pioneering satirical presence in popular culture. 7PM FREE.
