Notable San Francisco: 5/27–6/2
Wednesday 5/27: Jan Ellison will discuss her new novel, A Small Indiscretion, with Kirsten Jones Neff. Ellison was a recipient of a 2007 O. Henry Prize for her first story to…
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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: 5/20–5/26
Wednesday 5/20: Reports of the cultural death of San Francisco have been greatly exaggerated. We may be down, but we are definitely not out. (In a manner of speaking.) Need proof?…
Notable San Francisco: 5/13–5/19
Wednesday 5/13: Did you know that Reed Magazine was founded in San Jose in 1867 and is the oldest literary journal published west of the Mississippi River? It was and is…
Notable San Francisco: 5/6-5/12
Wednesday 5/6: Leila Rae curates 1st Wednesdays in the Loft for Pandemonium Press featuring Paul Corman-Roberts, Jannie Dresser, George Korolog, Colleen McKee, and guitarist Hao Tao. Open mic before and after. Free,…
Notable San Francisco: 4/29–5/5
Wednesday 4/29: Paul Corman-Roberts, curator for the monthly reading series Passages On The Lake, presents a typically outstanding group of writers: Neeli Cherkovski (PEN Oakland award winner), A. Razor (founder of…
Notable San Francisco: 4/22–4/28
Wednesday 4/22: Viet Thanh Nguyen will read from his debut novel, The Sympathizer, set in the time of the Vietnam War. In his review for the New York Times, Philip Caputo…
Notable San Francisco: 4/15–4/21
Wednesday 4/15: In this time of the movement for “Black Lives Matter,” the release from Ecco Press/Harper Collins of Ryan Gattis‘s new novel, All Involved, about the Rodney King beating and…
Notable San Francisco: 4/8–4/14
Wednesday 4/8: Beloved elder David Meltzer, a Beat Generation poet described by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as “one of the greats,” will read from his City Lights publication, a new edition of Two-Way…
Notable San Francisco: 4/1–4/7
Wednesday 4/1: Tonight, in Oakland, the upcoming Beast Crawl hosts its 2015 kick off fundraising party (open to all ages), with an amazing collection of literary enthusiasts, ridiculous hats, raffles, good…
Notable San Francisco: 3/25–3/31
Wednesday 3/25: The University of San Francisco presents Day 2 of their annual Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Stegner Fellow Shara Lessley and the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award,…
Notable San Francisco: 3/18–3/24
Wednesday 3/18: A Bay area sighting of poet Kazim Ali is always notable, and even more so when it includes a chance to check out the Center for Literary Arts at…
Notable San Francisco: 3/11–3/17
Wednesday 3/11: Alley Cat Books presents the inaugural reading for the Alley Cat Resident Writers program. Each of the writers will read from an original chapbook produced by Alley Cat. Featuring…