To learn how to live, Claudia Biçen turned to the dying. Over the course of two years, the San Francisco artist, born in London, spent…
Alexandra Naughton of Oakland published three poetry chapbooks last year, and this week celebrates the release of her debut novel, American Mary. “I’m not writing…
A young Nigerian man wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover that he’s white. A. Igoni Barrett wrote that sentence into…
It was early, but Fred Moten had no problem talking poetry. “I don’t know what the most important thing is, but I know what I…
About every two minutes, someone tweets “i hate the internet.” If you follow the Twitter account @heardulikebooks, which automatically retweets every instance of that declaration,…
New York-born Derek Lassiter, who arrived in the Bay Area in 1990 with a background in music and theater, was asked by the Red Poppy…
Recovering from what he called his “latest romantic tragedy” back in 1993, Will Viharo turned down a movie recommendation from his father, which happened to…
Every year, on the ninth and final day of San Francisco’s literary festival, Litquake, hundreds of storytellers, poets, biographers and writers of all kinds converge…