I took a futuristic train out of town and ended up on the steps of Wheeler Hall, built in 1917. Inside, I ran into a…
The pressure was on at the Make-out Room when Write Club took the stage. The boisterous host of the night was Steven Westdahl, a team…
On Thursday March 14th, SF Writer’s Community, Omnibucket, and Fiction365 came together at Chez Poulet to celebrate the one year anniversary of Action Fiction! Authors don’t…
The Odd Fellows Hall is at Market and 7th, near a methadone clinic. It is a six-story structure built in 1909. The Independent Order of…
On February 12, I attended a reading and talk at Mills College by the elegant, distinguished Joyce Carol Oates. It was a memorable evening. Oates spoke in…
“We always have to defend the imagination against idiots.” In the cramped auditorium of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities, Ursula K. Le Guin sat…
In May of 1968 there were massive protests in France. They are often characterized as “student” protests in an attempt to limit the wider dimensions…
I walked a couple of miles to a gallery downtown to hear some people read from their memoirs. These are writers with an ink-stained past…
I had the pleasure Tuesday of attending a Litquake event at the legendary Tosca Cafe featuring Rosie Schaap, author of the memoir Drinking With Men,…
Hidden in the depths of the Cesar Chavez Center at San Francisco State University, S.P.E.A.K.’s Open Mic Night finds its home at The Depot, a…