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BARBERSHOP READING: off and over the top

BARBERSHOP READING: off and over the top

October 18, 2011

[youtube_video width=399 height=233]Barbershop[/youtube_video]

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS: these are the books

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS: these are the books

Event Review, Scene

(Evan Karp) After a long year of books, book tours, new adventures in social media prostitution (whatever that means), and a surge in series and…

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WHY THERE ARE WORDS: the golden bridge

WHY THERE ARE WORDS: the golden bridge

January 20, 2011

Event Review, Scene, Statement

Thurs Jan 13 11, Studio 333 (Evan Karp) This past week Why There Are Words celebrated its first anniversary by inviting some of its inaugural…

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Re-Assembling Hope
This panel on the idea of "re-assembling hope," which closes out the Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA series and the Bay Area Book Festival, features Rebecca Solnit ("The Mother of All Questions") in conversation with Dacher Keltner, Dan Kammen and Shannon Jackson about our fraught political landscape and how literature and art help us […]
Kai Carlson-Wee
SF-based poet Kai Carlson-Wee celebrates the launch of his first full collection "Rail" (BOA), which hops trains across the stark landscapes of the American West and finds meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Carlson-Wee received jury awards at the Napa Valley and Arizona International Film Festivals for […]
Yang Huang
Bay Area-based Yang Huang reads from her story collection "My Old Faithful," which won the 2017 Juniper Prize. Edie Meidav, judge for the prize, said: "Imagine Ferrante telling a family's story from prismatic perspectives and you come close to Huang's triumph." The book follows what Huang calls the "grass people" of China: middle-class citizens with […]