Bay Area
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Notable SF: 12/16–12/22
Monday 12/16: Writers on Writing. The San Francisco State University Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public every Monday evening of the semester. Dodie Bellamy and Steven Seidenberg read from and discuss their latest work. Free, 7…
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Notable SF: 12/9–12/15
Monday 12/9: Author Jonathan Franzen comes to the Bookshop Santa Cruz to discuss and sign copies of his new book,The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus. Free, 7 p.m. Tuesday 12/10: InsideStorytime THE FIX features Joe Clifford (Junkie Love), Zarina…
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Notable SF: 12/2–12/8
Monday 12/2: The Bazaar Writers Salon, hosted by Peter Kline, features readings by Christopher Kempf, Scott Laughlin, and Bruce Snider and music by Bob Hillman. Free, 7 p.m. at Bazaar Cafe. Tuesday 12/3: Dodie Bellamy comes to City Lights to…
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Notable SF: 11/25–12/1
Monday 11/25: Join Green Apple Books and the San Francisco Elk’s Lodge in welcoming Barry Gifford to the historic Elk’s Lodge in celebration of his new book, The Roy Stories. Free, 7 p.m. Bay Area contributors to Flash Fiction Funny,…
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Notable SF: 11/18–11/24
Monday 11/18: The Porchlight Storytelling Series continues with There Will Be Blood: Stories about Family. Readers include Rumpus pal Sean Keane, Chris Caen, Marianna Cherry, Jay Beaman, Karen Duffin, Brontez Purnell, and Jesse Rimler. $15 adv, $20 door, 8 p.m. at…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/11–11/17
Monday 11/11: Hugo Martinez and Christin To, co-founders of MAT-TER Design + Build Studio share their work on La Burbuja, a portable sound booth for recording the stories of Sonic Trace, a storytelling and mapping project collecting the stories of…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/4–11/10
Monday 11/4: Founder of StoryCorps, Dave Isay, comes to Book Passage to discuss Ties That Bind, a collection of conversations that celebrate the human bond. Free, 6pm. Tuesday 11/5: The RADAR Reading Series continues with Rumpus contributors/Lost Cat coauthors Wendy MacNaughton and Caroline…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/28–11/3
Monday 10/28: The “On Arts” series, benefiting the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, presents British author Zadie Smith in conversation with Steve Winn. $27, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater. Tuesday 10/29: The Moth comes to The Booksmith, featuring an opening story from…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Lauren Grodstein, author of The Explanation of Everything, and Adam Mansbach, author of The Dead Run, discuss their books, careers, and the writing life. Free, 7:30pm at The Booksmith. Tuesday 10/22: Poetry Flash and Moe’s Books present poets…
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The Other Bay Area
Chris was also a transfer student but from the other direction, further north, one of the towns in that cluster—El Sobrante, Crockett, Port Costa—where the Bay waters tentacle and the urbanity dissipates. “The Midwest begins where the BART line ends,”…
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Saying “The G-Word” Out Loud
Gentrification is a thorny subject in San Francisco these days, as it is in many American cities. A roundup post at SF Weekly blog The Snitch collects some of the best writing that’s sprung up around the issue, including George Packer’s puzzled look at…
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New York: Still Not the Only Interesting Place to Live
“Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap,” Ken Layne writes in a post for the Awl titled “Is San Francisco the Brooklyn to Silicon Valley’s Unbuilt Manhattan?”…