Twenty-one years ago, Paul Corman-Roberts left Las Vegas for San Francisco, hoping to reconcile a troubled relationship and build a career in theater. But he…
With a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in creative writing, Alexandra Kostoulas has had many teachers and learned many approaches to writing, but of…
Two years ago, the Beast Crawl literary festival premiered with 27 readings spread out over three hours in 25 Uptown Oakland venues. Originally conceived as…
Four years ago, Sonya Ostashevskaya-Gohstand lived for six months in Nepal, where she offered physiotherapy services at Khagendra New Life Home in Kathmandu. Khagendra, which…
At last year’s Beast Crawl festival, the poet Mg Roberts introduced poet and organizer Sean Labrador y Manzano to Carolyn Cooke, who was recently appointed chair…
Back in March, KALW reporter and producer Ninna Gaensler-Debs set out to combine three of her passions — radio, literature and the Bay Area, where…
In 1999, Jane Ganahl and Jack Boulware organized a daylong gathering of two dozen authors. That event has grown into one of the nation’s largest…
Having produced more than 60 stories told from 20 countries in its first two-plus years, Radio Ambulante is set to present its fourth live show…
To hear Timothy Don talk about Oakland, you might suspect he’s running for mayor. “I’ve lived in many different places,” he said recently, by phone:…
Sitting in a semicircle around Jill Tomasetti’s Inner Richmond apartment, the members of Drop Leaf Press gathered last week to discuss their first book, Tomasetti’s…