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  1. Dodie Bellamy: “Hoarding as Écriture”

    April 20 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  2. William T. Vollmann discusses No Immediate Danger

    April 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  3. Full Color: A Staged Reading

    April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  4. Muni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show

    April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  5. You’re Going to Die presents Death is Real with Mount Eerie

    April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm
  6. Luis Alberto Urrea: The House of Broken Angels

    April 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  7. Rebecca Kauffman

    April 23 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  8. Holloway Reading Series: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory

    April 24 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
  9. Copper Canyon Press Reading

    April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  10. Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell

    April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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SF WEEKLY FALL ARTS 2014: books and events

September 3, 2014
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, NEWS, Said Litseen, Scene, Upcoming Events

a mini-guide to Fall books and events for SF Weekly‘s seasonal Arts guide

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE FARAWAY NEARBY: rebecca solnit

September 11, 2013
Steven Gray
Event Review, NEWS

I was sitting at the bar in a room with high wooden ceilings from the 1920s. There was an elk head on the wall and…

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BANNED BOOK EXPOSÉ: why books get banned

BANNED BOOK EXPOSÉ: why books get banned

October 1, 2011
Evan Karp
Playlists

[youtube_video width=399 height=233]Banned Books[/youtube_video]

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WEEK IN PREVIEW: a book lover's dream come true

WEEK IN PREVIEW: a book lover’s dream come true

September 19, 2011
Nicole McFeely
Week in Preview

(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Wednesday, 9/21-Sunday, 9/25 – 47th Annual Big Book Sale We’re talking the West Coast’s largest book sale, here. Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion welcomes over 500,000 books,…

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS: these are the books

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS: these are the books

April 13, 2011
Evan Karp
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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  • 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 […]

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