Back in March, KALW reporter and producer Ninna Gaensler-Debs set out to combine three of her passions — radio, literature and the Bay Area, where…
In 1999, Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware organized a daylong gathering of two dozen authors. That event has grown into one of the nation’s largest…
Having produced more than 60 stories told from 20 countries in its first two-plus years, Radio Ambulante is set to present its fourth live show…
To hear Timothy Don talk about Oakland, you might suspect he’s running for mayor. “I’ve lived in many different places,” he said recently, by phone:…
Sitting in a semicircle around Jill Tomasetti’s Inner Richmond apartment, the members of Drop Leaf Press gathered last week to discuss their first book, Tomasetti’s…
In 1973, at the University of Southern California, some of the world’s greatest Latino and Chicano poets converged for the first contemporary Flor y Canto…
Born in New Hampshire, Hope Amico took her letterpress skills to Louisiana State University for a degree in printmaking and started Gutwrench Press, an umbrella…
Uptown Oakland was a different place when, in 2012, Beast Crawl put on its first annual daylong literary festival. The free event brought an estimated…
The belief that art should be public and freely accessible does not preclude the belief that artists should be paid for their work. To that…
Ben Lerner’s second novel, “10:04,” begins with the Hasidic saying that in the world to come, “Everything will be just as it is now, just…