For the past 40 years Neeli Cherkovski has been living in San Francisco, where he’s put out 16 books and developed an international reputation as…
Entering the Department of Make Believe has a peculiar effect on people. “It’s almost like a weird therapy,” Tavia Stewart-Streit, Chapter 510 co-founder and chief…
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…
Five years ago, at the age of 70, Howard Junker retired from Zyzzyva, the literary magazine he founded in 1985. In need of something to…
Too often, it is difficult to feel — much less mobilize — the power of the civic voice amid the forces of government and the…
About two years ago, Chris Peck the Town Crier was driving back to San Francisco from Seattle, where he had been touring his double EP…
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…
What started three years ago as an annual four-day juried writers’ retreat at Mayacamas Ranch in Calistoga, called Lit Camp, has become a nonprofit that…
David Meltzer is a poet and a time traveler. He came here from 1937, and remembers feeling “doomed by the atom bomb” when he was…
For Siamak Vossoughi, whose debut collection Better Than War won a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction and was published this week, writing is…