Wednesday 11/2: Kevin Opstedal, Derek Fenner, and Micah Ballard. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books.
Julia Scott interviews Peter Orner for the San Francisco launch of his new book of essays, Am I Alone Here?, which is described by the publisher as “notes on living to read and reading to live.” Free, 7:30 p.m., The Booksmith.
Thursday 11/3: Carmen Giménez Smith (Milk and Filth, 2013 National Book Critics Circle finalist for poetry) reads at UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series. Free, 12:10 p.m., Morrison Library (inside Doe Library) at UCB.
NEA Fellow Carolina de Robertis (The Gods of Tango) and novelist Micah Perks (We Are Gathered Here). Free, 7 p.m., The Poetry Center at SFSU.
Friday 11/4: Rolling Writers presents an East Bay event featuring Paul Corman-Roberts, Jacqueline Doyle, Colleen McKee, Lynn Mundell, Apollo Papafrangou, Andrew Sano, Robert Thomas, and Amos White. Free, 7 p.m., The Octopus Literary Salon.
Poet Wayne Miller (Post-). Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Saturday 11/5: Featherboard Writing Series presents Eric Sneathen, Lindsey Wolkin, and Trisha Low. Free, 6 p.m., Aggregate Space.
Red Brick Studio presents Reading Next to Kilns, featuring Rohan daCosta, Sarah Kobrinsky, Arisa White, and Kenneth Wong. Free, 7 p.m., Red Brick Studio.
Sunday 11/6: Bazaar Writers Salon presents current Stegner Fellow Chris Drangle, Cheryl Dumesnil (Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes), Danusha Laméris (The Moons of August), and Roberto Santiago (Angel Park). Free, 6 p.m., Bazaar Café.
Monday 11/7: Quiet Lightning at The American Bookbinders Museum. Readers include Wesley Cohen, josé vadi, Kate Ambash, Sarah Heady, Lorraine Lupo, Brennan DeFrisco, Cassandra Dallett, Elizeya Quate, Abe Becker, Allie Marini, J. K. Fowler, Sarah Henry, Keith Gaboury, and Joanell Serra. Free, 7:30 p.m., American Bookbinders Museum.
LGBTQ Pride Readings features Martin Hyatt (Beautiful Gravity) and Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us). Free, 7 p.m., Dog Eared Books in the Castro.
Tuesday 11/8: The Dada Globe Project is one of the events of The Dada Worlds Fair, presented by City Lights. The copy offered by City Lights leaves it unclear as to exactly what the Dada Globe Project IS, but it’s Dada so what the hey. Should be interesting. And the event is sponsored by the Cultural Services of Switzerland in San Francisco and Swissnex—why? Who knows? Free, 7 p.m., Swissnex.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is the Shotgun Players revival of Edward Albee’s absurdist masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Director Mark Jackson, who was responsible for Shotgun’s astonishing Hamlet earlier this season (and still playing in repertory), has rethought this play to put the language front and center. The play is staged on a platform vaguely resembling a chessboard, with a single staircase up center, disappearing into the darkness. There is no furniture and none of the realistic trappings usually associated with this piece. Thus both Albee’s lacerating language and the sense of a game are brought to the forefront, where they belong. It is amazing to watch the actors literally slither around the stage, as each plays for the upper hand in a vicious series of variations on the game of one-upmanship. 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, Tony Acarasiddhi. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Gary Snyder.
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