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Celebrate one of the primary reasons SF has such a wealth of literary culture with a critical mass of book and chocolate lovers

Charlie Jane Anders has organized what will hopefully be a recurring event with the first San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl, which will occur this Sunday, Feb 26 beginning at Green Apple Books at or before noon (get there early for free chocolate). Get the whole schedule, which will include 8 independet bookstores and at least 4 chocolate stops, here. The event is scheduled to end at 7:30pm… can you imagine this? Will you, just for a moment? As I’m writing, 125 people have claimed they’ll attend. What a force this could be! Browse, meet new people, catch up with some you should know better. Costumes are encouraged but by no means mandatory. Read the rest of this entry »

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One of the best Bay Area series? Lunch Poems. 8 times a year and this Thursday is one of them: Clayton Eshleman will read from his translations of Aimé Césaire [read this | view last year's series]. Say you’re able to hit that up and you notice the rest of your day has been pretty terrific, actually, and want to see what somebody else has to say. Options: Read the rest of this entry »