Wednesday 9/21: Don’t miss the 52nd Annual Fall Book Sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Half a million books and media for $3 or less per item, with all proceeds benefitting the library. On Sunday, prices drop to $1 per item. All your friends will be there. Free, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., 9/21–9/25. Fort Mason Center, Festival Pavilion (Pier 3).
Thursday 9/22: UC Berkeley’s Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics Mary Szybist reads on campus. Free, 6:30 p.m., Hearst Field Annex room D37, UCB.
Apogee Press presents poets Pattie McCarthy (Quiet Book), Denise Newman (The New Make Believe), and Laura Walker (story). Free, Moe’s Books, 7:30 p.m.
Friday 9/23: Cesar Love celebrates the release of a new book of poems (Birthright). Also reading will be Maurisa Thompson and Kim Shuck. Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books.
Much-admired Columbian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Reputations) reads in the Inner Sunset District. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Saturday 9/24: Monday Night journal presents Tamer Mostafa, Zack Haber, and Genie Gratto. Free, 6 p.m., Aggregate Space Gallery.
Tom Comitta has been working on a novel (The City of Nature) and he’ll be reading from it in a gallery at the Minnesota Street Project. If you don’t know Tom Comitta, or you don’t know the Minnesota Street Project, we think you will be pleasantly surprised. If you know Tom and the MSP, well, you’ll probably try to be there. Free, 5 p.m., Et al. etc. Gallery.
Monday 9/26: Bay Area Generations presents its monthly intergenerational reading series in San Francisco, featuring Norma Smith + Kelechi Ubohzoh, Dennis Estrada + Dezzy Hatter, Paul Corman-Roberts + Christine No, and Indiana Pehlivanova + G. Macias Guzman. Plus, a special appearance by jazz musician George Brooks. $7–$10, 7:30 p.m., Hotel Rex.
David Meltzer and Julie Rogers are featured readers at Bird & Beckett. Free, 7 p.m., Bird & Beckett.
Tuesday 9/27: Cartoonist/filmmaker Riad Sattouf (raised in Libya and Syria, and now making his home in Paris) reads from his graphic memoir, The Arab of the Future. Free, 7 p.m., Diesel Bookstore.
Noveliest Tessa Hadley (The Past). Free, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Dalloway’s.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Little Shop of Horrors, produced by Ray of Light Theatre Company. For further information, click here. 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, Peter Thomas Bullen. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Matthew Zapruder.
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