Earlier this year, City Lights Booksellers and Publishers released Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s new memoir, The End of San Francisco, to much critical acclaim. Here is…
Harold Adler, founder and curator of the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, has been a fixture in the Berkeley arts community for over 40…
I recently attended Zack Haber’s The Other Fabulous Reading Series, a distinctive event that has recently popped up in the ever-exciting East Bay at The…
City Lights Bookstore and visitors from Granta hosted a reading by two “best young British novelists” on April 22, 2013 at The California Book Club…
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,…
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…
Bob Coffen is having a tough time. So much so, he might as well be living in his own last name. He doesn’t get much…
So, it’s been a while since I’ve written a Punk The Muse column. Easy, isn’t it, to slip away from regular work? You think you’re…