Notable SF
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Notable San Francisco: 1/20–1/26
Wednesday 1/20: James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns) presents readings by three novelists at “Inside Story Time: Harbingers.” They are Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept with God), Juan Alvarado Valdivia (¡Cancerlandia!), Saeeda Hafiz (The Healing), and MC Mars (Burner). Free, 7…
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Notable San Francisco: 1/13–1/19
Wednesday 1/13: Green Apple Books presents novelist Paulette Boudreaux (Mulberry) winner of the inaugural Lee Smith Novel Prize from Carolina Wren Press in 2014. Free, 7 p.m., Green Apple Books on Clement. Thursday 1/14: Sausalito’s popular reading series (hosted by Peg Alford),…
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Notable San Francisco: 1/6–1/12
Wednesday 1/6: Pandemonium Press (1st Wednesdays in the Loft at Spice Monkey) presents “Oakland Noir” with East Bay literary stalwarts Sharon Coleman, Cassandra Dallett, Fred Dodsworth, and Roy Mash, followed by an open mic. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey. Paul Corman-Roberts,…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/30–1/5
Wednesday 12/30: The Berkeley Poetry Slam presents The Third Annual Anarchy Slam with performance poet Mighty Mike McGee, a former National Poetry Slam Grand Champion, who has performed with Tons of Fun University, The Whirlwind Company, Electric Whale Revival, and Junkyard…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/23–12/29
Sunday 12/27: Will Viharo (Vic Valentine, Private Eye) and Scott Funks (The Space Needler’s Intergalactic Bar Guide, a collaboration with Viharo) will be reading in a Tiki Bar in Alameda. Noir + Tiki in the afternoon sounds like a winning combination…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/16–12/22
Wednesday 12/16: Berkeley Poetry Slam, the longest running poetry slam in Northern California, features the extraordinary Sam Sax. Sax’s rising poetic star is white hot. He is a 2015 NEA Fellow, winner of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation,…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/9–12/15
Wednesday 12/9: There’s a genre of Jewish Noir? Who knew? God knows, the history is dark enough. Editor Kenneth Wishnia will be on hand with authors TBA, celebrating the release of a collection from PM Press. The blurb says, “This anthology…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/2–12/8
Wednesday 12/2: City Lights Bookstore presents Dodie Bellamy (When the Sick Rule the World) and David Buuck (Site Cite City: Selected Prose Works 1999-2012). Rumpus reviewer James Reich describes Bellamy’s book as “…a series of biting, ouroboric takes on the bi-polar…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/25–12/1
Thanksgiving week is a slow time for notable events, but what we’ve got is as good as pecan pie! Happy holiday! Wednesday 11/25: Lunada Literary Lounge, the monthly full moon bi-lingual reading and open mic at Galeria de la Raza in…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/18–11/24
Wednesday 11/18: Today’s your last chance to catch Rick Moody live on the last leg of the Bay Area portion of his promotion tour for Hotels of North America. Rick is the second featured guest for the In Deep Radio show…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/11–11/17
Wednesday 11/11: Poets Martin Corless-Smith (Nota) and Rebecca Wolff (founder and publisher of Fence Books and “The Constant Critic” website) read from their latest collections. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books On The Park. “Facets of Spirituality Poetry Series” presents novelist…
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Notable San Francisco: 11/4–11/10
Wednesday 11/04: Pandemonium Press presents 1st Wednesdays In The Loft, featuring MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, Andrew Dugas, and Rafael Jesús González. On guitar: Hao Tran. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic precedes and follows the featured readers. Free, 6:45 p.m.,…