An interview with Aya de Leon, from The Write Stuff series: Aya de Leon is the author of the Latina feminist heist novel Uptown Thief (July 26, 2016; Kensington/Dafina)…
The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s hosting of “Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” overlaps with City Lights’ celebration of its 60th year this week with…
In 2008, Kimberly Escamilla founded the nonprofit International Poetry Library of San Francisco to serve the rapidly growing number of master of fine arts students…
In his 1998 “Compressions: A Second Helping,” Thomas Farber describes his epigrammatic writing as “using the enchantment of language to express … aspects of disenchantment,…
Even before the writing of his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection of poems, “Works & Days” (2010), University of San Francisco professor and City Brights columnist…
The Monthly Rumpus, an offshoot of the San Francisco literary culture website TheRumpus.net, recently hosted its final party at the Make-Out Room after three years…
Insularity might be the one thing San Francisco and writing communities generally have most in common. Once we belong, we have everything we need: a…
Four hundred authors walked into a bar, a police station, an art gallery, a Buddhist center, a cheese shop, a sex shop, a bowling alley….
When Daniel Alarcón toured the world for his first novel, the 2009 International Literature Award-winning “Lost City Radio,” he spoke with many people in rural South…
When Dave Eggers started McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern in 1998, he was only publishing work rejected by other magazines. The literary journal has grown into what…