Wednesday 9/28: Fans of “”Shipwrecked,” Booksmith’s notorious performance series in which notable authors compete for bragging rights by writing shocking fan fiction based on well-respected works, will be pleased to learn that an anthology is being released: Loose Lips. The book party will include an edition of “Shipwrecked” featuring The Princess Bride. Inconceivable. $12–$30, 7 p.m., Public Works.
Long time Silicon Valley journalist Scott Allan Morrison reads from his debut novel, Terms of Use. Free, 7 p.m., Folio Books.
Thursday 9/29: Chinaka Hodge (Dated Emcees), plus Miriam Klein Stahl and Kate Schatz (Rad Women Worldwide) read at Berkeley High School. Book sales will benefit the Arts and Humanities Academy at BHS. Free, 6:30 p.m., Berkeley High School Little Theatre.
David Talbot launches a new publishing venture, Hot Books. The authors of three new books will be featured: Rebecca Gordon (American Nuremberg: The US Officials Who Should be Prosecuted for Post 9/11 War Crimes), Nicholas Schou (Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood), and Alexander Zaitchik (The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump’s America). Free, 7 p.m. City Lights.
Friday 9/30: Tanya Holtland, Jennifer S. Cheng, and Maxwell Shanley. Free, 7 p.m., Modern Times.
Saturday 10/1: Many fine folk will be participating in the 21st annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival in Berkeley. Organized by Poetry Flash and co-sponsored by Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers’ Market, Pegasus Books Downtown, and Moe’s Books. With a team like that, you can be sure there’ll be some exciting stuff. Free, 12 p.m.–4:30 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
The indefatigable Nomadic Press releases its Fall 2016 Chapbook Collection. Five authors/five books: Peter Thomas Bullen (Wallflower), Nazelah Jamison (Evolutionary Heart ), Maw Shein Win (Score and Bone), Raina León (Profeta Without Refuge), and Daniel Riddle Rodriguez (Low Village). Free, 7 p.m., Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe.
Sunday 10/2: Bazaar Writers Saloon presents Ari Banias, James J. Siegel, Meryl Natchez, and Noah Warren. Free, 6 p.m., Bazaar Café.
Monday 10/3: Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir reboot The Word Party: Poetry & Jazz, in which poets are invited to read at an open mic (3-min. time limit), accompanied by the Nova Jazz Band. Welcome them back! Free, 7 p.m., Piano Fight Bar Stage.
Tuesday 10/4: Folks interested in world literature novels in translation will want to meet and hear Danish writer Josefine Klougart (One of Us is Sleeping) read from the first of her novels to be translated into English. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Maggie Tokuda-Hall reads from her new children’s book, Also an Octopus, at an event billed as a “kids’ book launch for grownups.” Free, 7:30 p.m., The Booksmith.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is King Charles III by Mike Barrett at A.C.T. Reviews have been mixed for this much-anticipated production of a play nominated for a whopping six Olivier Awards and 5 Tonys. (It won an award for “Best New Play” from the London Critic’s Circle.) Barrett’s comedy imagines Charles, Prince of Wales, assuming the throne as King Charles III and creating a bit of a mess. Written in iambic pentameter and relying upon Shakespearian devices such as rhyming couplets and soliloquys, this send up of the royals is nothing if not unusual. Like it or hate it, this one is a “must see” for serious Bay area theatre fans. 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, Zach Wyner. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Tom Comitta.
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