Notable San Francisco 5/21-5/27

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.

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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.

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