Wednesday 8/24: Forrest Leo (The Gentleman) reads from his debut novel published by Penguin Press. The intriguing and straightforward blurb reads: “It’s about a poet who sells his wife to the devil.” Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Thursday 8/25: Anita Cruz and John Landry are featured at Readers on Thursday. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore at Fort Mason.
Friday 8/26: August at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers presents Aimee Suzara, Judy Halebsky, Kelly Egan, and Mei Li Ooi. Free, 7 p.m., The Octopus Literary Salon.
Saturday 8/27: This month, Oakland’s popular reading series/open mic Saturday Night Special offers the theme “a musical open mic,” and encourages musicians to participate. Featured writers are Natasha Dennerstein + G Macias Gusman. Free, 7 p.m., Nick’s Lounge.
Monday 8/29: Nomadic Press presents Marvin R. Hiemstra and Julian Mithra. Free (donations encouraged), 7 p.m., Nomadic Press.
Bay Area Generations presents its third anniversary show in Berkeley, featuring intergenerational pairs of readers: Kim Shuck + Bill Vartnaw, D. Jane McPherson + Clive Matson, Aliya Charney + Ellen Woods, Chris Warren Smith + Gary Turchin, and Roopa Ramamoorthi + Sharon Metzler Dow. $7 ($10 w/book), 7:30 p.m., Berkeley City Club.
Tuesday 8/30: Literary Pop features poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians, and storytellers sharing their pop culture obsessions. This week’s featured readers are Kwan Booth on Pokémon GO, Amy Stephenson on Murder She Wrote, Danny Thanh Nguyen on Lifetime Made for TV Movies, Tess Barry on Mike Tyson, your host Wonder Dave on Loretta Lynn, and special guest comedian and King of the Nerds reality TV contestant Jacob Rubin. $9-12, 7:30 p.m., Doc’s Lab.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is California Shakespeare Theater’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell. This early Shaw play, not often produced, has been characterized as Shaw’s response to Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, skewering upper class British manners. Shaw goes beyond making fun, however, incorporating a great deal of philosophical argument and social commentary into the actual dialogue, while Wilde was content to keep things light and slip his criticisms in through the subtext. Read a review 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, Abbigail Baldys. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, haiku-ist Amos White.
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