Notable San Francisco

Wednesday 4/15: In this time of the movement for “Black Lives Matter,” the release from Ecco Press/Harper Collins of Ryan Gattis‘s new novel, All Involved, about the Rodney King beating and…

Wednesday 4/8: Beloved elder David Meltzer, a Beat Generation poet described by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as “one of the greats,” will read from his City Lights publication, a new edition of Two-Way…

Wednesday 4/1: Tonight, in Oakland, the upcoming Beast Crawl hosts its 2015 kick off fundraising party (open to all ages), with an amazing collection of literary enthusiasts, ridiculous hats, raffles, good…

Wednesday 3/25: The University of San Francisco presents Day 2 of their annual Emerging Writers Festival, featuring Stegner Fellow Shara Lessley and the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award,…

Wednesday 3/18: A Bay area sighting of poet Kazim Ali is always notable, and even more so when it includes a chance to check out the Center for Literary Arts at…

Wednesday 3/11: Alley Cat Books presents the inaugural reading for the Alley Cat Resident Writers program. Each of the writers will read from an original chapbook produced by Alley Cat. Featuring…

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…