Notable SF

Wednesday 10/28: St. Mary’s Creative Writing Reading Series presents National Book Award nominated novelist Cristina García. Free, 7:30 p.m., Lafayette Library. Thursday 10/29: City Lights Bookstore celebrates their publication of previously uncollected…

Wednesday 10/21: Eileen Myles (who we once dubbed a “Poetry Rock Star”) will read tonight from her collection, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014 . Free, 7 p.m.,…

LitQuake continues through Saturday at various locations and venues, day and night. There are many more events than we can tell you about. For a full calendar of LitQuake events,…

Wednesday 9/30: Marin poets Angelika Quirk (Of Ruins and Rumors) and Ella Yetan will be reading tonight in San Rafael. This event is part of the series, Hand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN…

Wednesday 9/23: Donna de la Perrière, Maria Garcia Teutsch, and Joanna Fuhrman read in Berkeley. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books. Terry McCarthy is tonight’s featured reader at Poetry Express, Berkeley’s only…

Wednesday 9/16: Scott Esposito talks with Mexican fiction writer Guadalupe Nettel about her first novel to appear in English translation, The Body Where I Was Born. Read Amy Rowland‘s recent review…

Wednesday 9/9: Lucia Berlin, who died in 2004, was celebrated as a master of the short story. Tonight, City Lights Bookstore and the Book Club of California celebrate the release of…

Wednesday 9/2: It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which means Pandemonium Press is in the Loft at Spice Monkey. This month’s featured readers are Rebecca Foust, Jon Sindell, David Shaddock, and…

Wednesday 8/26: Did you think Petaluma was nothing but cheese and agriculture? Well, they Get Lit in Petaluma, too! I mean, of course, that this rural haven in North Marin is…

Wednesday 8/19: Lyrics and Dirges Fifth Year Anniversary, featuring Allie Marini Batts, Vernon Keeve III, Maisha Z Johnson, Joshua Kent Fowler, Peter Bullen, and Brynn Saito. Combining powerful attention and quiet, unassuming support, curators Sharon Coleman, Daniel Moniz,…

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…