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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…