On Thursday March 14th, SF Writer’s Community, Omnibucket, and Fiction365 came together at Chez Poulet to celebrate the one year anniversary of Action Fiction! Authors don’t…
What does it mean to have an artistic vocation? As I began writing this column, I googled the phrase and found an astonishing 5,330,000 results….
On February 21, I attended a reading at SFSU’s Poetry Center featuring CA Conrad and Kazim Ali, two eccentric poets of unusual distinction. Eccentric? Well,…
The Odd Fellows Hall is at Market and 7th, near a methadone clinic. It is a six-story structure built in 1909. The Independent Order of…
On February 12, I attended a reading and talk at Mills College by the elegant, distinguished Joyce Carol Oates. It was a memorable evening. Oates spoke in…
Our top picks for the week starting Monday, March 11 13. Suggest an event. Tuesday, 3/12 Sam Lipsyte & Joshua Mohr @ Tosca Cafe: Litquake’s Epicenter Reading…
[00:05:03m]: Play Now This is a random excerpt from Richard Grossinger‘s book The Windy Passage from Nostalgia, published in 1974 by North Atlantic Books and read for the first…
“We always have to defend the imagination against idiots.” In the cramped auditorium of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, Ursula K. Le Guin sat…
In May of 1968 there were massive protests in France. They are often characterized as “student” protests in an attempt to limit the wider dimensions…