Wednesday 7/13: Sin Soracco launches her new novel, Come To Me, published jointly by The Green Arcade and Ithuriel’s Spear. Free, 7 p.m. The Green Arcade.
Fireside Storytelling: What Doesn’t Kill You will feature storytellers Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Marilyn Pittman, Craig McLaughlin, and Andre Wilson. $15, 7:30 p.m., The Institute of Possibility.
Thursday 7/14: Musician Hassan El-Tayyab reads from his memoir Composing Temple Sunrise. Free, 7 p.m. Diesel Bookstore.
Sausalito-based reading series, Why There Are Words, features Elizabeth Collison, Brenna DeFrisco, Kate Folk, Maureen O’Leary, Shobha Rao, Tess Taylor, and Kara Vernor. $10, 7:15 p.m., Studio 333.
Friday 7/15: Fresh And Best Poetry Series celebrates the release of Look from Greywolf Press, with poet Solmaz Sharif. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel Books.
Dixie De La Tour hosts and is herself a feature storyteller at a late-show edition of the popular Bawdy Storytelling on the theme “It Seemed Like A Good Idea.” $15-$79, 10:30 p.m. The Verdi Club.
Saturday 7/16: The Tenderloin Museum celebrates its one-year anniversary, with seven hours of performances including a magic show by the Tenderloin Youth Magic Class, a Youth Choir performance from Larkin Street’s Youth Arts Program, Aunt Charlie’s Dream Queens Review Drag Show, and more. Free, 1 p.m.–7 p.m., The Tenderloin Museum.
Tonight is the Beast Crawl, Oakland’s free literary festival featuring more than a hundred local writers reading in galleries, bars, cafes, and storefronts all over Uptown Oakland, followed by a party. This is the Crawl’s fifth anniversary. 5 p.m.–2 a.m. Various venues.
Sunday 7/17: The Headlands Center for the Arts is hosting an open house. Visit visual, performing, and literary artists in their studios to see and hear new work and works-in-progress at this amazing and inspiring place, located in the hills far above Marin, with some of the most spectacular views in the Bay area. Free, 12 p.m.–5 p.m. Headlands Center for the Arts.
Laurel Taylor (Send the Fly) and Richard Michael Levine (The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife). 2 p.m. Bird and Becket Books and Records.
Monday 7/18: Celebrate the launch of a new San Francisco-based journal, Foglifter, with MK Chavez, Arisa White, Kevin Killian, Shideh Etaat, Roberto Santiago, Nona Caspers, and Juliana Delgado Lopera. Free, 7 p.m., Strut.
Need some good advice? Advice columnist Heather Havrilesky , (“Ask Polly”) will read from her new book, How to be a Person in the World, and offer live advice along with Mallory Ortberg, Leah Reich, and Tracy Clark-Flory at Green Apple. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is the CalShakes production of Fences at the Bruns Amphitheatre in Orinda. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning classic gets an excellent production with an exceptionally fine performance by University of San Diego drama professor Aldo Billingslea as the head of a Black family in 1950s Pittsburgh. For further information, 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, Leora Fridman. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Joseph Millar.
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