Wednesday 6/22: Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics presents a dream lineup featuring CA Conrad, Kevin Killian, Juliana Spahr, Marianne Morris, Lara Durback, and painter Yuh-Shioh Wong. Hosted by editor David Buuck. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights.
Thursday 6/23: Inside Storytime features Anne Germanacos, Tony Robles, Makram Abu-Shakra, Genine Lentine, and Luciano Aldana. Hosted by James Warner. $5, 7 p.m., Second Act.
KPFA Radio and Marcus Books present An Evening with Terry McMillan, hosted by Sabrina Jacobs. $12-15, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church of Oakland.
Word Performances presents a “private parlor show” featuring Arisa White, Colleen McKee, Pitta of the Mind, Damien Alvarez, Cybele Zufolo Siegel, Todd Siegel, Zarina Zabrisky, Simon Roggue, and Daniel Berkman. $10-$15, 8 p.m., The Lost Church.
Friday 6/24: Max Porter reads from his debut novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. He will be interviewed by Anthony Marra, Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel Books.
Saturday 6/25: Thurber Prize Finalist Sloane Crosley will read from her new novel, The Clasp. Free, 7 p.m., Book Passage Marin.
Sunday 6/26: Molly Giles (author of a New York Times notable book, Creek Walk, winner of a Flannery O’Connor Prize, two Pushcart prizes, and many other distinctions) hosts the California Writers’ Club in Corte Madera. $5-$10, 2 p.m., Book Passage Marin.
Monday 6/27: Bay Area Generations presents Edition #34 of this reading series that features intergenerational pairs of writers and musical performance. Curated this month by Fred Dodsworth, Amos White, and Barb Campbell. $7-$10, 7:30 p.m., The Berkeley City Club.
Tuesday 6/28: Ricci Ducornet reads from her new novel, Brightfellow. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Books.
Mark Jacobson, a professor of medicine at UCSF and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital, began his internship just when the CDC noted the first reported cases of the autoimmune deficiency syndrome later identified as AIDS. He will be reading tonight from his novel about that time, Sensing Light. Free, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Dalloway’s.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is one of the plays being presented at the Playground Festival of New Works, Abominable or the Misappropriation of Betty Onion by Forces Beyond Her Control, a world premiere by Betty May. Reviewer Barry Horwitz describes this original comedy as, “profound, mysterious, and brilliant.” The Playground is a leading incubator of new work in the Bay area, and this year is presenting its 20th edition of the Festival of New Works. Read a review here. For further information about this play and the entire Festival of New Works, click here.
For 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, Jai Arun Ravine. Read an interview here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97fs1hhImb0&w=580
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Peter Orner.
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