The Rumpus talks to Sean Michaels about his new book, Us Conductors, challenging a reader’s empathy, and a true, strange musical instrument: the theremin.
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…
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…
If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Rumpus columnist Peter Orner‘s reading at Booksmith this Thursday to celebrate the paperback release of his novel Love and Shame and Love.…
In recent years, online retailers and e-books have taken their tole on Kepler’s Books, a Menlo Park bookstore founded in 1955 by antiwar activist Roy Kepler. Current owner Clark Kepler…
Today Aimee DeLong reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s new novel, The Visible Man, here at The Rumpus. Tonight Klosterman is reading at the Booksmith at 7:30pm in San Francisco. See you there?
Christopher Boucher’s rolling into town tonight on his book tour! He’ll be at Booksmith, talking up How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. Check it out! Here are the details: When:…
This week in San Francisco, Lit&Lunch, a book club meeting with Intersection for the Arts, radio magazine, The [Un]observed, launches at OHIO Studio, and the Portuguese Artists Colony celebrates its…
This week in San Francisco, Sketchfest continues, find out what happens when we become Overconnected, pitch your epic sci-fi murder-mystery memoir poem at Booksmith’s Pitchapalooza, and get de-virginized at Cell…
This week in San Francisco, booze for a cause at Drink Good Do Good, come hang out with me at this month’s Quiet Lightning, two words: Cinema Orgy, Booksmith’s first…