An interview with Vanessa Hua, from The Write Stuff series: Vanessa Hua is author of Deceit and Other Possibilities, winner of the Willow Books Literature Grand Prize. She is…
Born in Ecuador, Mauro Javier Cardenas planned to return home after receiving an education in the United States, with the intention of changing the political…
Litquake runs Oct. 6-15 and begins with an opening-night gala celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, with poet Gary Soto, harpist Shelley Phillips and a special…
Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, Incarnadine, Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started…
An interview with Zach Wyner, from The Write Stuff series: Zach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. HIs debut novel,…
An interview with Peter Thomas Bullen, from The Write Stuff series: Peter Thomas Bullen, a hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley began writing at the…
In a tribute to the life and work of Justin Chin, who died late last year at age 46, Jennifer Joseph of Manic D Press…
An interview with M.J. Arangelini, from The Write Stuff series: M.J. Arcangelini was born 1952 in western Pennsylvania, grew up there & in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s resided on the…
An interview with Evan Kennedy, from The Write Stuff series: Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist living in San Francisco. He is the author of The Sissies….
Why There Are Words, which formed as a monthly Sausalito-based reading series in January 2010 (which I wrote about at the time and have several times…