(Charles Kruger) Friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky night for me with two new experiences: I visited the San Pablo Arts District…
(Charles Kruger) Recently Sean Labrador y Manzano, a 2007 graduate of the Mills College MFA program in Creative Writing and McSweeney’s columnist (Conversations At The…
(Rick Kleffel) “I didn’t want her to think that there was anything she had to do because she was a girl.” —Peggy Orenstein Peggy…
(Rick Kleffel) “…this character just started yelling at me from my sketchbook…” —Daniel Clowes Daniel Clowes strikes me as the sort of writer who might…
(Charles Kruger) On Apr 11 (the usual 2nd Monday) the Makeout Room was taken over by the enthusiastic if somewhat odd crowd of hipsters, litsters,…
(Charles Kruger) One of the treasures of the South Bay poetry scene is Poetry Santa Cruz, a non profit corporation devoted to nurturing the poetry…
(Charles Kruger) For some years now, the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, along with the National Writers’ Union Chapter 7 and Poetry Slow Down on KXRA…
(Rick Kleffel) “I write in order to see what comes next.” — T. C. Boyle T. C. Boyle is a wily guy. He’s a smart,…
(Charles Kruger) Daniel Yaryan’s peripatetic reading series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts has presented 12 “rounds” throughout the state of California. The venues have included many…
Sat Feb 12 11, Capitola (Rick Kleffel) “Esmerelda is in an underground extreme food training ground compound in Marin …” —Matt Stewart “This will not…