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Evan Karp
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Notable San Francisco: 7/16–7/22
Wednesday 7/16: Poetry in the Redwood Grove, featuring Keith Ekiss, Dean Rader, and Tess Taylor, followed by a bluegrass performance by The Whiskey Brothers. $12, 5:30 p.m., University of California Berkeley Botanical Garden. Lyrics & Dirges hosts Joyce E. Young,…
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Notable San Francisco: 7/9–7/15
Wednesday, 7/9: A rare chance to see author of Turn of Mind, Method and Madness, and Circle of Wives, Alice LaPlante. Free, 6 p.m., Glen Park Library. Phenomenal lineup for the third installment of Story Showdown, hosted by Jamie DeWolf: storytellers, comedians,…
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Notable San Francisco: 7/2–7/8
Wednesday, 7/2: Paul Corman-Roberts, an exhilarating voice of the Beast Generation, recently released a new book with Paper Press and is celebrating with a launch party, along with East Bay poetry superstars Missy Church, Cassandra Dallett, Hollie Hardy, SB Stokes,…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/25–7/1
Wednesday, 6/25: KQED and StoryCorps present: OutLoud San Francisco, a night of storytelling with Morgan, Jaime Cortez, Matt Leavitt, and musical guest MAD NOISE. Free, 7 p.m., The Chapel. – Wonder Dave It’s been one year since Prop 8 was hoisted on…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/18–6/24
Wednesday, 6/18: Joanne Kyger and Michael McClure join Bill Morgan to celebrate Peter Orlovsky, a Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights. Joel Streicker will be in conversation with Peruvian novelist and playwright Rafael…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/11–6/17
Wednesday, 6/11: Emma Straub reads from her new story collection The Vacationers. Free, 7:30 p.m., The Booksmith. – Evan Karp Rusty Morrison, David Koehn, and Marianne Morris will read from new poetry collections. Complimentary refreshments. Free, 6 p.m., University Press Books. Thursday 6/12:…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/4–6/10
Wednesday 6/4: Litquake’s Epicenter is the SF release for Geoff Dyer‘s Another Great Day at Sea. Dyer will be in conversation with Chris Colin. $0-15, 7 p.m., Hotel Rex. RADAR celebrates eleven years with RADAR Superstar: performances by Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Anna Margarita…
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Notable San Francisco: 5/28–6/3
Wednesday, 5/28: The Canessa Park Reading Series presents a heady triumvirate of poets in Norma Cole, Laura Moriarty, and Steven Seidenberg. $6 suggested, 7:30 p.m., Canessa Gallery. – Evan Karp (PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.) Thursday, 5/29: The Gorilla Press celebrates its first…
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The Rumpus Interview with Beth Lisick
Beth Lisick, writer and the co-founder of Porchlight, the monthly storytelling series and a San Francisco institution, sits down to chat about collecting her shames, working with City Lights on her newest book, the act of telling stories in public,…
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The Last Book I Loved: We’re Getting On
Is this the apocalypse? Maybe. It could just be a personal problem. James Kaelan’s We’re Getting On was the last book to remind me why I love books so much. A collection of 2 long and 2 short interconnected stories,…
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The Last Book I Loved: Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
The last book I loved was Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk by Tony DuShane. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk is a triumph, not only for the adolescent Jehovah’s Witness whose voice grows like his first lone pubic hair…