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Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

January 26, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press…

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Cleve Jones by Michael Bry

Cleve Jones’ memoir says gay rights movement saved his life

December 1, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Out Loud

Cleve Jones’ new memoir, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, begins with a single-sentence paragraph: “The movement saved my life.” “That’s not rhetoric,…

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Mary Szybist Joni Kabana

Mary Szybist’s poems like religion for nonbelievers

September 22, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, Incarnadine, Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started…

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‘Thoughts in Passing’ portraits are road map to art of living

‘Thoughts in Passing’ portraits are road map to art of living

April 7, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

To learn how to live, Claudia Biçen turned to the dying. Over the course of two years, the San Francisco artist, born in London, spent…

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DELAYED MOVIE INSPIRES BIG CHANGES: Will Viharo's Hard-Boiled Heart

DELAYED MOVIE INSPIRES BIG CHANGES: Will Viharo’s Hard-Boiled Heart

December 24, 2015
Evan Karp
Columns, I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud, Said Litseen

Recovering from what he called his “latest romantic tragedy” back in 1993, Will Viharo turned down a movie recommendation from his father, which happened to…

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PAIR WORK FAST AND LOOSE WITH POETRY, MUSIC

PAIR WORK FAST AND LOOSE WITH POETRY, MUSIC

October 29, 2015
Evan Karp
Columns, I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Said Litseen

About two years ago, Chris Peck the Town Crier was driving back to San Francisco from Seattle, where he had been touring his double EP…

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SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI: Iranian American author finds balance in Seattle rain, S.F. sun

SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI: Iranian American author finds balance in Seattle rain, S.F. sun

September 17, 2015
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Said Litseen

For Siamak Vossoughi, whose debut collection Better Than War won a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction and was published this week, writing is…

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OTTESSA MOSHFEGH: inner archetypes become novel's characters

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH: inner archetypes become novel’s characters

August 21, 2015
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Said Litseen

In a 2014 conversation with Lorin Stein, published in BOMB magazine, author Ottessa Moshfegh said, “Each story requires a different style of stupidity. I just write…

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YOU'RE GOING TO DIE @ VIRACOCHA

YOU’RE GOING TO DIE @ VIRACOCHA

July 23, 2015
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Said Litseen, Upcoming Events

It began in a San Francisco apartment in 2009 and continued for three years as an open mike at cafes and bars, then gained traction…

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THE MESHES by BRITTANY BILLMEYER-FINN

April 2, 2015
Evan Karp
I WOULD SAY, NEWS, Statement

What began four years ago as an open-ended assignment has become Brittany Billmeyer-Finn’s debut full-length book, “The Meshes,” which Black Radish Books will release this…

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