(Maureen Blennerhassett) I didn’t know what the term “sex-positive” meant before Bawdy Storytelling. I heard it mentioned by a few of the storytellers (Shar Rednour…
(Nicole McFeely) It only 6:15, and there’s already a line stretching down the block toward Mission Street. A guy walking by stops and looks up…
(Evan Karp) Sherril Jaffe is a tenured professor of creative writing at Sonoma State University and the author of 9 books, the latest of which…
(Evan Karp) After a long year of books, book tours, new adventures in social media prostitution (whatever that means), and a surge in series and…
(Evan Karp) “Satire, like all good literature, has always been about creating a safe, neutral space for mediocre, uncontroversial ideas to be met with constant…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Have you seen the Bay Citizen app that mystically predicts which of the many Bay Area reading series’ could be right for you?…
(Evan Karp) As you probably know, Quiet Lightning recently filed its articles of incorporation as a non-profit organization (status: pending). This month’s show, Apr 4…
(Courtney Sanchez) This is what happens when you place a dozen women in a room together: they start talking about men. Talking can eventually lead…
(Nicole McFeely) I want to see Charlie Jane‘s pages. I’ve never gone to a reading where I’ve enjoyed the host’s introductions to the performers as…
(Evan Karp) D.W. Lichtenberg, 26, is author of The Ancient Book of Hip, about which Evan Karp has said: “After several reads, each with its own artfully…