Wednesday 3/4: Alameda Island Poets present Sharon Coleman and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. Coleman has been a huge influence on the East Bay poetry…
Wednesday 2/25: Books, Inc. presents the intriguing pair of novelist Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett) and poet Matthew Zapruder, under the heading “Poets and Pirates”. Handler will read from his new novel,…
Wednesday 2/18: The English Department at UC Berkeley hosts The Holloway Series in Poetry. The Spring semester kicks off with Claudia Rankine. Free, 6:30 p.m., Maude Fife Room/Wheeler Hall at UC…
Wednesday 2/11: Lone Mountain Readings at the University of San Francisco presents novelist Kathryn Ma. Ma’s novel The Year She Left Us was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named…
Wednesday 2/4: Peter Kline hosts Brendan Isaac Jones, Dean Rader, and Melissa Stein at the Bazaar Writers Saloon. Brendan Isaac Jones is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University; Dean…
Wednesday 1/28: Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of The Grateful Dead, in conversation with Paul Liberatore. Co-sponsored by Amoeba Music. Free, 7 p.m., Book Passage…
The poems in The Book of Frank capture moments, and they don’t explain themselves. But, cumulatively, they invoke a sense of what it is like to be almost supernaturally sensitive,…
In classic noir fashion, Sick City opens with a death. Jeffrey, a male prostitute junkie, goes to wake up his lover and sugar daddy (a retired Los Angeles cop with…