Evan Karp + Lapo Guzzini hosted the eighth installment of Under the Influence, a performance series held on the fourth Friday of every month at The Emerald…

After weeks of hearing her name pop up around the Bay Area lit scene, I finally had the pleasure to hear Ali Liebegott read from…

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…

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…

(Nicole McFeely) Featured Event: Wednesday, 9/21-Sunday, 9/25 – 47th Annual Big Book Sale We’re talking the West Coast’s largest book sale, here. Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion welcomes over 500,000 books,…

(Maureen Blennerhassett) On the first of June, I was sitting in the Main Library’s auditorium. It was the first day of my favorite month, of…

Sun Nov 7 10, Club Eros (Charles Kruger) Early last month, I attended the 14th anniversary of K’vetch, the longest continuously-running queer open mic in…