January 6, 2020, 7pm at The Balboa Theatre Curated by Sophia Passin and Kathleen Torrez, all selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE & bLINK 103, featuring cover...
Aaron Cohen discusses the subject of his new book Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power published by the University of Chicago...
E.J. Koh discusses her new memoir The Magical Language of Others. Praise for The Magical Language of Others "The Magical Language of Others is an exquisite, challenging,...
Bread & Butter Theatre presents the world premiere of Funeral Game, by Lana Palmer. Two sisters return to the family cabin to decide its fate....
Editor David L. Ulin in conversation with Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor, ZYZZYVA Cosponsored by Alta Magazine Cool, dispassionate, and incisive, Joan Didion’s voice is electric...
It's open mic night at Simple Pleasures! Join us for an evening of music and story-telling at our favorite neighborhood cafe. Sign up is at...
Thursday, January 9, 2020 7:30 PM 10:30 PM The Lost Church (map) You're Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes... Open Mic at The Lost Church...
Join us for a fast-paced evening of readings by a dozen talented writers from the Lit Camp community. Free beer & wine. $5-10 sliding scale...
For the past seventeen years, Porchlight has been San Francisco's premier storytelling series. Each month, co-founders Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite six people to tell ten-minute true...
Sally Rooney “writes about tricky commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one else has” (The Paris Review). Her novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People, are nuanced portraits...
2020 is here! Join us at Manny's for the decade's first poetry night! Come to Manny's for our monthly open mic nights. Poets, readers, performers...
One question an author is always asked at events or in chance encounters is what are you working on, and one thing an author always...
Ottessa Moshfegh’s characters are wracked with depression, neurosis, and utter ennui, but the care with which she tends to them imbues her books with a...
Moderated by Oscar Villalon with Meg Hurtado Bloom, Rita Bullwinkel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Chia-Chia Lin, Kevin Simmonds, and Paul Wilner ZYZZYVA's latest volume—the Bay Area Issue—features new writing and poetry...
Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books...
HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul. What's gonna happen? Five...
Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their new novel, First Cut. Praise for First Cut “Scalpel sharp. First Cut allows a peek into the autopsy room through the...
poetry and discussion exploring the pathways language takes through land, water, and air. Poetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of...
Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. Praise for Topics of Conversation "An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality,...
What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, brings this abstract question to life....
Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I've Never Done This Before) for their new book, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! Shine of the Ever is a literary mix tape...
Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars' Cafe. About Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars'...
For more than four decades, Don Lattin has written about the social, spiritual, and political aspects of the psychedelic drug movement as a newspaper reporter,...
For decades, works like Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris have captivated our imaginations with their images of lively cafés that...
Red Light Lit and The Los Angeles Press doubleheader with a live musical score by AJ Bahnken🎈The performers explore love relationships, sexuality, and gender. Featured...
Join us for an evening of medical storytelling on the theme of "Transitions," featuring stories by David Elkin, Tobin Greensweig, Catherine Humikowski, Shaili Jain, Christina...
A poetry reading hosted by author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka. Author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka is a mesmerizing—and folkloric—figure in the Bay Area literary community....
featuring K.R. MORRISON More details and readers to be announced…
a reading in support of "SoMa Lurk" a collection of poems and photos by José Vadi, published by Project Kalahati. Readings by Sarah O'Neal, Tongo...
Longtime collaborators composer-violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph are joined by street dance pioneer Drew Dollaz and electrifying vocalist Lalin St....