Notable San Francisco: 7/8–7/14
Wednesday 7/8: Kevin Killian has organized a reading at Alley Cat Books featuring visiting poets, two of whom have never read in the Bay area before. Don’t think the Mission neighborhood…
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Notable San Francisco: 7/1–7/7
Wednesday 7/1: Want to introduce some kids to the literary reading scene? Young fans will enjoy hearing Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman read from their Young Adult graphic novels at Green…
Notable San Francisco: 6/24–6/30
Wednesday, 6/24: Red Hen Press at City Lights with Ron Carlson (short story writer, novelist, poet and educator who co-directs the MFA writing program at UC Irvine), Dean Kostos (This Is Not…
Notable San Francisco: 6/17–6/23
Wednesday 6/17: Radar Productions and The Luggage Store present day #3 of the Queerfail Festival, featuring Jackie Wang, Maggie Nelson, CA Conrad, and Christopher Soto. Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public…
Notable San Francisco: 6/10–6/16
Wednesday 6/10: On a slow night in San Francisco, consider the Peninsula. Rumor has it there’s some university down there on an old ranch, and sometimes folks in those parts get…
Notable San Francisco: 6/3–6/9
Wednesday 6/3: Berkeley’s Pandemonium Press presents their regular first Wednesday reading at Spice Monkey. Poetry of Witness features MK Chavez, Rafael Jesús Gonzalez, Sharon Coleman, and Tony Press. Barry Ebner on…
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…
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…