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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…