“Love disables you; it holds you captive.” – Arisa White, author of A Penny Saved said at this month’s installment of the Sweet Adeline Book of the Month Club in…
While a bookish, hushed audience crowded The Lost Church this April for San Francisco’s monthly Word Performances series, they closed the night singing and dancing…
Alumni of Mills College’s creative writing MFA program curated a special panel discussion on April 9th 2014 to discuss the impact of their work in the…
“The finest poetry is not ashamed of the plainest fact.” (William Dean Howells) Back in the ’60’s, there was a war on that was tearing the…
A sizable crowd gathered March 18 at San Francisco’s Make-Out Room for Write Club SF’s 28th bout of literary fisticuffs. Riddled in disco glitz and…
On March 6th, Former Poet Laureate and MacArthur Genius Robert Hass met for a conversation about “Nature and Birding” with best selling novelist Jonathan Franzen….
There was a record of Moroccan trance music playing in the poetry room at City Lights. Acoustically it was astute, what with William Burroughs having…
Author Peter Mountford discussed his newest novel, The Dismal Science, with local author Peter Orner recently at the Haight’s The Booksmith. The conversation was held in…
On a cold Saturday night in San Francisco, author Willy Vlautin rambles inside the Granny Smith Room, a small, book-enchanted loft of history, philosophy and…