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….
A collection of nineteen true stories by Dani Burlison, which first appeared in a McSweeney’s column of the same title, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos renders…
Teju Cole, Twitter virtuoso and author of the critically acclaimed novel Open City, has written a novella that will be published by Random House on March…
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…
“Before Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” – old Buddhist proverb City Lights was so packed that people…
Bossy and controlling women are not hard to find in this country, but I avoid them if I can. One reason my father moved to…
The opening passage of Daniel Alarcón’s new novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, describes a time – “during the war” – when a few…