Notable San Francisco

Wednesday 2/25: Books, Inc. presents the intriguing pair of novelist Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett) and poet Matthew Zapruder, under the heading “Poets and Pirates”. Handler will read from his new novel, We Are Pirates. These two are literary royalty in San…

Wednesday 2/18: The English Department at UC Berkeley hosts The Holloway Series in Poetry. The Spring semester kicks off with Claudia Rankine. Free, 6:30 p.m., Maude Fife Room/Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley. Mary Volmer, author of a widely praised first novel,…

Wednesday 2/11: Lone Mountain Readings at the University of San Francisco presents novelist Kathryn Ma. Ma’s novel The Year She Left Us was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of 2014 by both NPR and the San…

Wednesday 2/4: Peter Kline hosts Brendan Isaac Jones, Dean Rader, and Melissa Stein at the Bazaar Writers Saloon. Brendan Isaac Jones is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University; Dean Rader is a Professor of English at the University of…

Wednesday 1/28: Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of The Grateful Dead, in conversation with Paul Liberatore. Co-sponsored by Amoeba Music. Free, 7 p.m., Book Passage Corte Madera. San Francisco hero Armistead Maupin in conversation with…

Wednesday 1/21: Miranda July reads from and discusses her first novel, The First Bad Man (Free, 7 p.m., Bookshop Santa Cruz). The Hundy continues with a reading by Small Press Distribution staff: Laura Moriarty, Johnny Hernandez, Nicole Trigg, John Sakkis, and…

Wednesday 1/14: The Berkeley Slam features Clementine von Radics, in town from Portland, and Alex Dang, from Eugene ($7-10, 8:15 p.m., The Starry Plough). From All Points but the Center presents Sandra Wassilie, Sharon Coleman, Elizabeth Rosner, Anna Avery, and Judy Elkan…

Wednesday 12/17: Fourteen Hills launches issue 21.1 with readings by contributors Chris Ames, Matthew Clark Davison, Arthur Isaac Hofmayer, Ashley K. Nelson, Jahla Seppanen, and Matthew Zapruder (Free, 7 p.m., Viracocha). The Kinda Late Show w/Broke-Ass Stuart returns with a…

Wednesday 12/10: Jon Sindell celebrates his publication of short fictions, The Roadkill Collection, with stories interpreted by Joe Clifford, Andrew O. Dugas, Candy Shue, Deborah Steinberg, Lauren Traetto, Siamak Vossoughi (and Jon himself, of course), as well as live music by Michael Crabtree…

Wednesday 12/3: San Jose State University hosts readings by this year’s Steinbeck Fellows: Cara Bayles, Yalitza Ferreras, and Reese Okyong Kwon (Free, 7 p.m., Center for Literary Arts). Todd Swindell, Neeli Cherkovski, and Jim Nawrocki—editors of a new volume of Harold Norse’s selected…

Wednesday 11/26: The Berkeley Slam presents Sock Puppet Slam—yes, all three-minute poems are performed with sock puppets, with special guest feature Caitlin Gill ($7-10, 7:30 p.m. signup, show at 8:15 p.m., The Starry Plough). Saturday 11/29: Evan Morgan Williams reads…

Wednesday 11/19: Mateo Hoke, co-editor of Palestine Speaks—the latest in the Voice of Witness series—discusses the book with oral historian Shanna Farrell (Free, 6 p.m., UC Berkeley, North Gate Hall). The Kinda Late Night Show with Broke-Ass Stuart premiere seems like it’ll be…