Wednesday 5/4: The program in Creative Writing at St. Mary’s presents faculty member Brenda Hillman with alumnus Andrew Kenower. Free, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s College.
Green Apple Books hosts Speaking Volumes’ “Breaking Ground Tour” of Black British writers, featuring readings by Bernardine Evaristo, Colin Grant, Diran Adebayo, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Jay Bernard, Johny Pitts, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nick Makoha, and Roger Robinson. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Thursday 5/5: Thursday’s at Readers presents Barbara Paschke and Jorge Arguetta. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore at Fort Mason.
The Booksmith’s popular series, Shipwreck, sets sale to sink Lewis Caroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Taking aim at the white rabbit and its kinky friends will be Vivenne Pustell, Amanda Rosenberg, Damian Ledbetter, George Chen, Eden Temple, and Sarah Stanton. $10-12, 7 p.m., The Booksmith.
Saturday 5/7: The Featherboard writing series features Tomas Moniz, Kate Folk, and Joel Gregory. Free, 6 p.m., Aggregate Space Gallery.
Monday 5/9: McSweeney’s presents Beers & Poems featuring Emily Carr (Whoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them , or A Sonnet). Free, 6 p.m., Woods Bar & Brewery, Oakland.
Kevin Killian is the guest for Writers On Writing at San Francisco State. Free, 7 p.m., San Francisco State.
Elizabeth Alford is featured at Poetry Express in Berkeley. Free, 7 p.m., Himalayan Flavors.
Don DeLillo is interviewed by Rachel Kushner for City Arts & Lectures. $29, 7:30 p.m., Nourse Theatre.
Tuesday 5/10: Radar Productions presents Denise Benavides, Jess Baltrónica-Gomez, Cyd Nova, and Ariel Dunitz-Johnson. Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public Library.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is The Untamed Stage: Weimer Berlin Kabarett. Former Cockette, songwriter Scrumbly Koldewyn, has created new work that runs the gamut from tasteless to mondo tasteless, extremely funny to oh-my-god-I-can’t-catch-my-breath. San Francisco culture is not dead yet! For further information click here.
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, James J. Siegel. Read an interview here.
And here’s some older video of one of last week’s SF notables, Sarah Fran Wisby.
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