Notable San Francisco

Wednesday 8/12: Meg Waite Clayton‘s first novel was a finalist for the 2002 Bellwether Prize for Fiction. Tonight, in Berkeley, she will read from her latest novel (number five), The Race for Paris. Free, 7:30 p.m., Mrs. Dalloway’s.  Thursday 8/13: Back in…

Wednesday 8/5: Pandemonium Press presents a Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance curated by Leila Rae and featuring Nanette Bradley Deetz, Rafael Jesús González, Jerimiah Jeffra, and Janell Moon with guitar performance by Hao Tran. Open mic follows. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey. Thursday 8/6: Shipwreck,…

Wednesday 7/29: If you have the time to get in line early, you can meet former President Jimmy Carter at Books Inc., Opera Plaza, where he’ll be signing copies of his new memoir, A Full Life: Reflections at 90. Free, 4:30…

Wednesday 7/15: Poetry Flash presents Andy Clausen and A. D. Winans at The Beat Museum, in North Beach. Since sponsoring the recent Beatnik Shindig at Fort Mason, the museum has been on a roll. If you’ve never visited, this might be…

Wednesday 7/8: Kevin Killian has organized a reading at Alley Cat Books featuring visiting poets, two of whom have never read in the Bay area before. Don’t think the Mission neighborhood is down for the count when events like this keep…

Wednesday 7/1: Want to introduce some kids to the literary reading scene? Young fans will enjoy hearing Raina Telgemeier and Dave Roman read from their Young Adult graphic novels at Green Apple Books on the Park. Free, 7:30 p.m. Green Apple…

Wednesday, 6/24: Red Hen Press at City Lights with Ron Carlson (short story writer, novelist, poet and educator who co-directs the MFA writing program at UC Irvine), Dean Kostos (This Is Not A Skyscraper), and Amy Uyematsu (The Yellow Door). Free, 7…

Wednesday 6/17: Radar Productions and The Luggage Store present day #3 of the Queerfail Festival, featuring Jackie Wang, Maggie Nelson, CA Conrad, and Christopher Soto. Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium. Book release for Mapmaking, a book of…

Wednesday 6/10: On a slow night in San Francisco, consider the Peninsula. Rumor has it there’s some university down there on an old ranch, and sometimes folks in those parts get around to poetry. Tonight, the Not Yet Dead Poets Society…

Wednesday 6/3: Berkeley’s Pandemonium Press presents their regular first Wednesday reading at Spice Monkey. Poetry of Witness features MK Chavez, Rafael Jesús Gonzalez, Sharon Coleman, and Tony Press. Barry Ebner on guitar. Curated by Leila Rae. There will be an open…