(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) “Thank you very much and welcome to Not So Fast. Uh, that is a title that we thought of. It’s caused a lot…
(Charles Kruger) For some years now, the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, along with the National Writers’ Union Chapter 7 and Poetry Slow Down on KXRA…
(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…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) If you live in the Sunset, Pac Heights, North of the Panhandle, anywhere that doesn’t smell like piss: chances are you’re a little…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) To quote the French poet Charles Péguy: “A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from…
(Charles Kruger) Daniel Yaryan’s peripatetic reading series Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts has presented 12 “rounds” throughout the state of California. The venues have included many…