Notable San Francisco: 9/3-9/9

This week in San Francisco! Happy September

Monday 9/3: Quiet Lightning takes it outside with a potluck picnic and reading at the Conservatory of Flowers in GG Park, featuring music by Quijeremá and Ash Reiter. 4:30, Free.

Tuesday 9/4: Free First Tuesdays to most museums you’ve been wanting to check out. The final Top of the Mark wine and cinema event of the summer features the Wizard of Oz. Free, 5:30. Get Fancy.

Wednesday 9/5: The Amnesty International Film Series screens At the Death House Door, the “remarkable career journey of Carroll Pickett who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous “Walls Prison” in Huntsville, TX.” Free, 7pm, Berkeley.

Thursday 9/6: Molly Ringwald discusses her release When it Happens to You: A Novel in Stories at the Verdi Club, hosted by Green Apple Books. Free, 8pm.

Saturday 9/8: Literary Death Match at Elbo Room, featuring all star lineup of writers competing for your favor, including Yiyun Li, Kevin Killian, Charles Warnke, and Colin Winnette. $7, 7pm.

Sunday 9/9: Join the final Sunday Streets of the summer–in J-town and Western Addition.9/

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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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