Unholy Trinity: A Lovecraft Triptych

October 10 @ 8:00 pm - November 2 @ 10:00 pm
TA-NEHISI COATES In Conversation with Michael Chabon

October 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson

October 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Daniel Poppick: Fear of Description

October 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square

October 15 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Laleh Khadivi

October 15 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Pints & Prose

October 15 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jeanette Winterson – Litquake 2019

October 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Litquake Santa Cruz

October 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
An Evening with Tommy Orange

October 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Nick Krieger on Being Plagued by Our Own Myopia

March 16, 2017

C4 YOURSELF, Columns, Interview, The Write Stuff

An interview with Nick Krieger, from The Write Stuff series: A native of New York, Nick Krieger realized at the age of twenty-one that he’d been born on…

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WHY THERE ARE WORDS: sticking your finger in the infant flytrap, always almost out of gas, subdued human voices and the treachery of snoring stories

December 20, 2011

Evan Karp

C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

[youtube_video width=399 height=233]WTAW Last[/youtube_video]

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BARBERSHOP READING: off and over the top

October 18, 2011

Evan Karp

Playlists

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

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: decisions, decisions

September 5, 2011

Nicole McFeely

Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Thursday, September 8th – Porchlight- SHIPWRECKED: Stories from the Sea Porchlight returns with a new run of storytelling after a month long…

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: more than two generations

July 3, 2011

Nicole McFeely

Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Thursday, July 7th Epicenter w/Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Through the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, a group of emerging writers from the Bay Area…

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: lightning never strikes twice

June 5, 2011

Nicole McFeely

Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) Featured event: Quiet Lightning: Neighborhood Heroes, v.3 When was the last time you saw Tamim Ansary, D.A. Powell, Meg Day, Jack Boulware, Jane Ganahl, Rob Brezsny, Steven Gray, Caitlin…

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Jarett Kobek
Author of "I Hate the Internet", an international bestseller set mostly in San Francisco and inspired by the tech-fueled gentrification that has so rapidly changed the city, Jarett Kobek reads from his new novel "Only Americans Burn in Hell." Set in 2019, it's a satirical fantasy featuring an immortal fairy queen and a Saudi prince […]
Mimi Lok
Recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for her work with Voice of Witness, the human rights and oral history nonprofit she co-founded to amplify marginalized voices through a book series and national education program, Mimi Lok celebrates the publication of her debut novella and story collection, "Last of Her Name." She'll be in conversation with […]
2019 Moby Dick Reading Marathon
Now an annual tradition, the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park hosts a 24-hour reading marathon of Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick", considered by many to be one of the great American novels. The marathon is open, so you can join the cast of 100+ readers by signing up for a chapter or two, […]
Zadie Smith
The beloved author of six novels including "White Teeth", "NW" and "Swing Time", and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Zadie Smith appears at City Arts & Lectures to read from her first story collection "Grand Union", which includes 10 new stories. She is celebrated for her superb dialogue and emotionally rich writing, which […]

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