Notable San Francisco

Wednesday 1/21: Miranda July reads from and discusses her first novel, The First Bad Man (Free, 7 p.m., Bookshop Santa Cruz). The Hundy continues with a reading by Small Press Distribution…

Wednesday 1/14: The Berkeley Slam features Clementine von Radics, in town from Portland, and Alex Dang, from Eugene ($7-10, 8:15 p.m., The Starry Plough). From All Points but the Center presents Sandra…

Wednesday 12/17: Fourteen Hills launches issue 21.1 with readings by contributors Chris Ames, Matthew Clark Davison, Arthur Isaac Hofmayer, Ashley K. Nelson, Jahla Seppanen, and Matthew Zapruder (Free, 7 p.m.,…

Wednesday 12/10: Jon Sindell celebrates his publication of short fictions, The Roadkill Collection, with stories interpreted by Joe Clifford, Andrew O. Dugas, Candy Shue, Deborah Steinberg, Lauren Traetto, Siamak Vossoughi (and Jon…

Wednesday 12/3: San Jose State University hosts readings by this year’s Steinbeck Fellows: Cara Bayles, Yalitza Ferreras, and Reese Okyong Kwon (Free, 7 p.m., Center for Literary Arts). Todd Swindell, Neeli Cherkovski, and…

Wednesday 11/26: The Berkeley Slam presents Sock Puppet Slam—yes, all three-minute poems are performed with sock puppets, with special guest feature Caitlin Gill ($7-10, 7:30 p.m. signup, show at 8:15…

Wednesday 11/19: Mateo Hoke, co-editor of Palestine Speaks—the latest in the Voice of Witness series—discusses the book with oral historian Shanna Farrell (Free, 6 p.m., UC Berkeley, North Gate Hall). The Kinda…

Wednesday 11/12: Peter Turchi reads from and discusses his new book A Muse and A Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic (Free, 7 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park). Roman…

Wednesday 11/5: Haunted Reflections: Walter Benjamin in San Francisco is a nearly weeklong celebration of the great philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin, as organized by City Lights, The Contemporary Jewish Museum,…

Wednesday 10/29: Ari Larissa Heinrich is in town from San Diego to speak with Scott Esposito about the work of Qiu Miaojin, whose Last Words from Montmartre Heinrich has just translated from the Chinese (Free,…

Wednesday 10/22: Tom Frank and John Summers celebrate the release of No Future For You: Salvos from The Baffler (Free, 7 p.m., City Lights). Eimear McBride reads from and discusses her novel, A Girl is…

Wednesday 10/15: Litquake continues with another day of tough decisions! French author Marc Levy is in conversation with SF Chronicle book editor John McMurtrie ($5, 6 p.m., Modernism Gallery). A panel…