Notable SF
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Notable San Francisco: 10/28–11/3
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 pulp fiction by Charles Bukowski, The Bell Tolls for No…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/21–10/28
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., City Lights. And around the corner at The Beat Museum,…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/14–10/20
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, click here. Wednesday 10/14: Playing With Words is a lunchtime LitQuake…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/7–10/13
Wednesday 10/7: Pandemonium Press presents 1st Wednesdays in the Loft at Spice Monkey, featuring Patricia Bulitt, Fred Dodsworth, Kurt Lumpkin, and Mary Mackey. An open mic precedes and follows the readers. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey. City Lights presents Gillian Conoley…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/30–10/6
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 OUT. Free, 6:30 p.m., Rebound Bookstore. Are you a fan…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/23–09/29
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 poetry reading in an Indian restaurant. Includes an open mic…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/16–9/22
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 in the New York Times if you need to get…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/9–9/15
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 A Manual for Cleaning Woman: Selected Stories, edited by Stephen…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/2–9/8
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 Deborah Dashow Ruth. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey. Thursday 9/3: If…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/26–9/1
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 the home of the Get Lit reading series, tonight featuring…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/19–8/25
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, and MK Chavez have helmed this series to its five…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/12–8/18
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…