LitQuake continues through Saturday at various locations and venues, day and night. There are many more events than we can tell you about. For a full calendar of LitQuake events, click here.
Wednesday 10/14: Playing With Words is a lunchtime LitQuake reading presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley, featuring Tamim Ansary, Judith Coburn, Lynne Kaufman, Philippa Kelly, Cary Pepper, and Hugh Richmond. Free, 12:30 p.m., Freight & Salvage.
Tonight, the University of San Francisco holds its annual Fall Faculty Reading featuring Jasmin Darznik (The Good Daughter), Carolina De Robertis (The Gods of Tango, Perla, and The Invisible Mountain), Joshua Mohr (All This Life, Termite Parade, and Damascus) and Rachel Richardson (Copperhead). Free, 7:30 p.m., University of San Francisco, McClaren Conference Center 251.
Thursday 10/15: Small Press Traffic presents Obsessions: Eileen Myles. Obsessions is a “talk series” in which writers talk about their obsessions and how it informs their writing practice. $6-10 sliding scale, 7 p.m., Artists’ Television Access.
James Warner hosts Original Shorts: Love-Hate, a LitQuake event. For this event each writer wrote an original story on the theme. Featuring Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Jason K. Friedman, Molly Giles, Pat Murphy, Ethel Rohan, and Santaigo Vaquera Vásquez. $5, 7 p.m., Make-Out Room.
Friday 10/16: The Beat Museum presents The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics, a short film by Joan Gelfand and Dana Walden, who will be in attendance for a discussion following the film. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum.
Saturday 10/17: Bay Area Generations (a reading series co-founded by yours truly and Sandra Wassilie) participates in LitCrawl, featuring Sharon Coleman, Kate Folk, Joseph Lease, Mary Mackey, Tai Rockett, and John Oliver Simon. Free, 6 p.m., Skunkfunk.
And you won’t want to miss The Rumpus’s own Lit Crawl extravaganza, featuring Faith Adiele, Eloisa Bravo, Nato Green, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, Kara Levy, Michael James Tapscott, and Joe Wadlington! Free, 8:30 p.m., Make-Out Room.
Sunday 10/18: Avotcja hosts The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical Open Mic in English, Spanish, Spanglish, y Lo Que Sea with features Katherine Hastings and Miguel Gavilian Molina. Free (donations welcome), 5 p.m., Cafe Leila.
Monday 10/19: Peter Orner is featured at San Francisco State University’s series, “Writers On Writing.” Free, 7 p.m., Humanities Auditorium, SFU.
Tuesday 10/20: Lawrence Ferlinghetti is releasing a new book! Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013. He will be celebrating in person tonight, at City Lights Books. Need we say more? Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Books.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is New Conservatory Theatre Center’s excellent regional premiere of The Nance by Douglas Carter Beane. Nathan Lane created the complex role of Chauncey Miles in the Broadway production of this play about a gay burlesque comedian who specializes in presenting a ridiculously effeminate comic character. Bay Area actor P. A. Cooley does not disappoint in the present production. Cooley is funny, touching, and wonderful. The play features wonderfully entertaining recreations of old-time Burlesque routines, and packs a powerful punch with its story of show business censorship, repression, and exploitation of gays. For further information, click here.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Jasper Bermes. Click here to read an interview.
And here’s video from a past SF Notable, Brenda Hillman, reading at The Hundy early this year at E. M. Wolfman Books in Oakland.
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If you have a Bay Area event listing you’d like us to consider, please contact [email protected] as far in advance as possible, and include the date of the event in the subject line.
