Notable San Francisco: 12/7–12/13
Notable San Francisco grieves for the tragic loss of life in Oakland with the burning of Ghost Ship. Making art is a dangerous pastime, but it shouldn’t be life threatening…
Notable San Francisco
457 posts
Notable San Francisco: 11/30–12/6
Wednesday 11/30: City Lights celebrates the publication of the magazine, Freeman’s: 2: Family: The Best New Writing on Family, from Grove Press. Editor John Freeman will be on hand. Free,…
Notable San Francisco: 11/23–11/29
It’s a slow week for events, so we can all take a deep breath for reflection, then plunge back in this weekend. Thank you for visiting The Rumpus and helping…
Notable San Francisco: 11/16–11/22
Wednesday 11/16: Readers at Lyrics and Dirges will focus on the theme of gratitude. Featured: Harold Terezon, Marguerite Munoz, Norma Smith, Mickey Ellinger, Josiah Luis Alderete, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free,…
Notable San Francisco: 11/9–11/15
Wednesday 11/9: Juliana Spahr (That Winter the Wolf Came) reads at St. Mary’s College in Moraga. Free, 7:30 p.m., Hagerty Lounge, St. Mary’s College. Eleni Stecopoulos (Visceral Poetics), Jeanne Heuving…
Notable San Francisco: 11/2–11/8
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,…
Notable San Francisco: 10/26–11/01
Wednesday 10/26: University of San Francisco presents its fall MFA faculty: Laleh Khadivi, Dave Madden, D. A. Powell, and Susan Steinberg. Free, 7:30 p.m., USF, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room. Brit…
Notable San Francisco: 10/19–10/25
Wednesday 10/19: UCB’s Holloway Series presents Tonya Foster. Free, 6:30 p.m., UC Berkeley. Sarah Griffin of Dublin, Ireland returns in triumph to San Francisco, the internationally celebrated author of a…
Notable San Francisco: 10/12–10/18
All Week: Litquake! This week is the San Francisco Bay Area’s literary “week of weeks.” It’s time for “Litquake,” the largest festival of its kind west of the Mississippi. The event…
Notable San Francisco: 10/5–10/11
Wednesday 10/5: Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us) and Anthony Marra (A Constellation of Vital Phenomena). Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park. Oscar Villalon interviews Vanessa Hua…
Notable San Francisco: 9/28-10/4
Wednesday 9/28: Fans of “”Shipwrecked,” Booksmith’s notorious performance series in which notable authors compete for bragging rights by writing shocking fan fiction based on well-respected works, will be pleased to…
Notable San Francisco: 9/21–9/27
Wednesday 9/21: Don’t miss the 52nd Annual Fall Book Sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Half a million books and media for $3 or less per item,…