Notable San Francisco: 1/27–2/2
Wednesday 1/27: Novelist and short story writer, the marvelously eccentric Zarina Zabrisky (We, Monsters), celebrates the release of her third collection of short stories, Explosion, from Epic Rites Press. The event…
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Charles Kruger
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Charles Kruger is a Bay area arts practitioner known as "The Storming Bohemian." He tries to do as much as he can.
Notable San Francisco: 1/20–1/26
Wednesday 1/20: James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns) presents readings by three novelists at “Inside Story Time: Harbingers.” They are Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept with God), Juan Alvarado Valdivia…
Notable San Francisco: 1/13–1/19
Wednesday 1/13: Green Apple Books presents novelist Paulette Boudreaux (Mulberry) winner of the inaugural Lee Smith Novel Prize from Carolina Wren Press in 2014. Free, 7 p.m., Green Apple Books on…
Notable San Francisco: 1/6–1/12
Wednesday 1/6: Pandemonium Press (1st Wednesdays in the Loft at Spice Monkey) presents “Oakland Noir” with East Bay literary stalwarts Sharon Coleman, Cassandra Dallett, Fred Dodsworth, and Roy Mash, followed by…
Notable San Francisco: 12/30–1/5
Wednesday 12/30: The Berkeley Poetry Slam presents The Third Annual Anarchy Slam with performance poet Mighty Mike McGee, a former National Poetry Slam Grand Champion, who has performed with Tons of…
Notable San Francisco: 12/23–12/29
Sunday 12/27: Will Viharo (Vic Valentine, Private Eye) and Scott Funks (The Space Needler’s Intergalactic Bar Guide, a collaboration with Viharo) will be reading in a Tiki Bar in Alameda. Noir…
Notable San Francisco: 12/16–12/22
Wednesday 12/16: Berkeley Poetry Slam, the longest running poetry slam in Northern California, features the extraordinary Sam Sax. Sax’s rising poetic star is white hot. He is a 2015 NEA Fellow,…
Notable San Francisco: 12/9–12/15
Wednesday 12/9: There’s a genre of Jewish Noir? Who knew? God knows, the history is dark enough. Editor Kenneth Wishnia will be on hand with authors TBA, celebrating the release of…
Notable San Francisco: 12/2–12/8
Wednesday 12/2: City Lights Bookstore presents Dodie Bellamy (When the Sick Rule the World) and David Buuck (Site Cite City: Selected Prose Works 1999-2012). Rumpus reviewer James Reich describes Bellamy’s book…
Notable San Francisco: 11/25–12/1
Thanksgiving week is a slow time for notable events, but what we’ve got is as good as pecan pie! Happy holiday! Wednesday 11/25: Lunada Literary Lounge, the monthly full moon bi-lingual…
Notable San Francisco: 11/18–11/24
Wednesday 11/18: Today’s your last chance to catch Rick Moody live on the last leg of the Bay Area portion of his promotion tour for Hotels of North America. Rick is…
Notable San Francisco: 11/11–11/17
Wednesday 11/11: Poets Martin Corless-Smith (Nota) and Rebecca Wolff (founder and publisher of Fence Books and “The Constant Critic” website) read from their latest collections. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books…