Wednesday 11/18: Today’s your last chance to catch Rick Moody live on the last leg of the Bay Area portion of his promotion tour for Hotels of North America. Rick is the second featured guest for the In Deep Radio show at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. Steve Silberman (Neuro Tribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity) is the other featured guest. Free, 11 a.m, Kepler’s Books. (Doors open at 10:30 a.m., show starts at 11 a.m. sharp, reservations recommended.)
Josh Rosenthal (who is this week’s featured author on video) will read from The Record Store of the Mind. Guitar instrumentalist Richard Osborn will also perform. Free, 7 p.m., Green Apple Books Clement St.
Thursday 11/19: Marin Poetry Center presents Malachi Black (Storm Toward Morning, Copper Canyon Press) and Gary Dop (Father, Child Water, Red Hen Press). Free, 7:30 p.m., Marin Poetry Center.
Tonight, Ahmunet Jessica Jordan, Moon Flower, Patricia Powell, Janine Mogannam, Amir Rabiyah, and July Westhale will be reading from work published in the anthology Writing The Walls Down: A Convergence of LGTBQ Voices. Free, 7 p.m., Modern Times Bookstore Collective.
Friday 11/20: Are you a multi-lingual writer? You may be interested in learning about Two Lines Press, a project of the Center for the Art of Translation, dedicated to the publication of international works translated into English. The Center’s executive director Michael Holtmann, Two Lines Press production editor Jessica Sevey, and Two Lines Press Associate editor Marthine Santris will talk tonight about publishing international fiction as a small Bay Area Press. Selections will be read from recent publications. Free, 7:30 p.m., Pegasus Books on Solano.
The Beat Museum presents an evening with Bob Holman, co-creator of the half hour documentary film Ginsberg’s Karma. Holman will be discussing Allen Ginsberg’s experience in India. Holman is a legend in his own right, having coordinated several years of poetry readings at St. Marks Poetry Project in New York, as well as being credited with introducing slam poetry to the celebrated Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He’s definitely someone you might want to meet. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum.
Saturday 11/21: Adobe Books Collective presents a mixed genre reading featuring these Bay Area writers: Sunisa Nardone, Isobel O’Hare, John Babbott, Rory Ou, and Jamieson Bunn. Free, 7 p.m., Adobe Books Collective.
Monday 11/23: The 27th edition of Bay Area Generations will take place at the Hotel Rex in Union Square, readers to be announced. Bay Area Generations (A Reading Series for the Ages) is a submission based readings series that features authors presenting work of all genres in intergenerational pairs, and publishes each show in a limited edition chap book. The readers for the 27th edition are yet to be announced. $7-10 ($10 includes a copy of the chap book), 7:30 p.m., Hotel Rex.
Tuesday 11/24: Daniel Alarcón will read tonight from his new novel, City of Clowns. Free, 7 p.m., Book Passage Corte Madera.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is the Magic Theatre’s west coast premiere of Bright Half Life, by Pulitzer nominated playwright Tanya Barfield. Previous productions of Bright Half Life, which follows the course of a lesbian romance, have received enthusiastic reviews in New York and elsewhere. This season, incidentally, Magic Theatre is producing female playwrights exclusively. Click here to read an article about the play and playwright. Click here for ticket information.
For more extensive coverage of the Bay Area theatre scene, visit TheatreStorm.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Josh Rosenthal, founder of Thompkins Square Label. Click here to read an interview.
And here’s some video of Oakland writer Joel Landmine, who was one of the featured readers at last week’s SF Notable event, the Howard Zinn Book Festival.
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