Notable San Francisco: 4/11–4/17
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Jami Attenberg
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Notable Los Angeles: 7/24–7/30
Monday 7/24: Jimmy Webb discusses and signs The Cake and The Rain: A Memoir. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. 90×90 presents Drunken Masters: TV. With Julie Plec, Beth Schacter, Bronwyn Garrity,…
Notable NYC: 5/20–5/26
Saturday 5/20: Mohammad Rabie and Mona Kareem discuss Otared: Arabic Dystopian Fiction. McNally Jackson Books, 7 p.m., free. Vivien Goldman and Sarada Rauch join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30…
Notable NYC: 5/6–5/12
Saturday 5/6: Jennifer E. Smith presents Windfall. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Carmen Giménez Smith and Aldrin Valdez join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
Notable San Francisco: 3/22–3/28
Wednesday 3/22: Kick off spring 2017 with an unusually large array of choices for a Wednesday night: Graham Foust is featured at the Holloway Reading Series at the University of…
Notable NYC: 3/4–3/10
Saturday 3/4: Peter Blackstock, senior editor at Grove Atlantic, curates Queer as Volk as part of the Festival Neue Literatur. Powerhouse Arena, 6 p.m, free. Timothy Liu and Christopher Salerno…
Don’t Touch, Be Touched
Publishers stress that readers nowadays want to feel like they’re in a relationship with an author. But I’ve just put everything I know into writing and in exchange you pay…
September in the Rumpus Book Club
This month, The Rumpus Book Club is reading Jade Chang’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World, which Jami Attenberg calls her “favorite debut of the year,” and of which Kirkus Reviews writes, “A Chinese-American…
Notable NYC: 6/18–6/24
Saturday 6/18: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus discuss So Close. BookCourt, 4 p.m., free. Sarah-Jane Stratford launches Radio Girls and discusses it with Allison Amend. KGB, 7 p.m., free. Sunday…
A Home of One’s Own
Jami Attenberg wrote a personal essay in Lenny Letter about finding home in unexpected places: I found myself uttering these words: “If I lived here, I would never want to…