This week in San Francisco!
Monday 10/22: Free comedy in North Beach at Melt the Mic, featuring Lynn Ruth Miller, the “poster girl for growing old disgracefully.” Free, 8pm. Melt Cafe.
Tuesday 10/23: Booksmith hosts author Mark Danielewski’s multimedia “a ghost story for grownups,” Fifty Year Sword to the Swedish American Hall with NPR’s Chris O’Riley. $15, 7:30pm.
Wednesday 10/24: City Lights hosts RADAR’s Sister Spit Anthology Reading, featuring groundbreaking figures from the lesbian-feminist spoken word collective, inclding Cassie J. Sneider, Ali Liebegott, Ben McCoy, Sara Seinberg, MariNaomi, Rhiannon Argo, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, Kat Marie Yoas, Michelle Tea. Free, 7pm.
Thursday 10/25: The Center for the Art of Translation launches the 19th installment of TWO LINES, a yearly anthology of world literature and poetry in translation. Featuring writers and translators reading selections from the release. $5 suggested donation, 6pm, Chronicle Books.
Friday 10/26: The California College of the Arts MFA Writers Series presents Sarah Shun-lien Bynum author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. Free, 3:30pm.
Saturday 10/27: Developing Environments, one of San Francisco’s earliest legal artist residences, celebrates its 40th anniversary with an open studio featuring a historic SF photo exhibition, live music, and an “audio ‘story booth’ for members of the community and surrounding neighborhood to share and record their memories of the past.” Free, 11am-6pm.
