Notable San Francisco

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Wednesday 11/04: Pandemonium Press presents 1st Wednesdays In The Loft, featuring MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, Andrew Dugas, and Rafael Jesús González. On guitar: Hao Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open…

Wednesday 10/28: St. Mary’s Creative Writing Reading Series presents National Book Award nominated novelist Cristina García. Free, 7:30 p.m., Lafayette Library. Thursday 10/29: City Lights Bookstore celebrates their publication of previously uncollected…

Wednesday 10/21: Eileen Myles (who we once dubbed a “Poetry Rock Star”) will read tonight from her collection, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014 . Free, 7 p.m.,…

LitQuake continues through Saturday at various locations and venues, day and night. There are many more events than we can tell you about. For a full calendar of LitQuake events,…