(Nicole McFeely) The Tenderloin is a prison of dirty windows. It is pigeons pecking at the flesh of discarded chicken bones lying next to human…
(Evan Karp) Sitting on the floor in a Chinatown hole underlining O Powerful Western Star with lead, Jack Hirschman beside me, Sarah Page smiling a…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) It’s official. San Francisco is a literary destination. But you knew that, that’s why you moved here. Seems like you can’t throw a…
(Evan Karp) “I literally went up to every person in the room and was like, “Have you ever worked in a restaurant? Have you ever…
(Nicole McFeely) In this January 2011 article, Why There Are Words won Litseen’s first (and only) award for Classiest Reading Series. For those of you…
(Evan Karp) With a forthcoming series at the Conservatory of Flowers called The Greenhouse Effect just around the corner, Quiet Lightning filled The Emerald Tablet…
(Charles Kruger) Astonishingly, the San Francisco literary scene continues to grow and expand. When my friends and I hear of a new series starting up,…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Before I publicly criticize a New York Times best seller, a cult icon, a writer whose words I admire, let me just say…
(Evan Karp) In case you haven’t noticed, Portuguese Artists Colony is en fuego. There’s something about confines that allows us to grow, and when we…
(Charles Kruger) The ‘Lectric Collective consists of Jillian Roberts, Kelsa Trom and Sarah Rothberg, friends who attended UC Berkeley together to study creative writing. They…