If you missed the Katrina Benefit Reading put on by Stephen Elliott, Matthew Iribarne, and the Progressive Reading Series at the Makeout Room last week, don’t despair, you can still pretend you were there. For auction here at Sans Serif is an event poster signed by all fourteen of the participating authors: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), Firoozeh Dumas, Julie Orringer, Peter Orner, Daphne Gottlieb, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Truong Tran, Michelle Richmond, Anne Marino, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Tom Barbash, Andrew Sean Greer, Kirk Read, and San Francisco favorite Michelle Tea. Proceeds will go to the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation....
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the other kevin and the other oscar at the mechanics institute library
If you missed Kevin (no not my Kevin, the other Kevin) and the Bookmark Now posse this summer, well, all I can say is, where were you, dude? Because Kevin was pretty much everywhere. Lucky for you, it’s not too late to hear the enthusiastic editor of this snappy literary volume talk abut the future of the book, along with Oscar Villalon and other San Francisco book people. It happens Tuesday night, Sept. 27, at the best little library in the Bay Area. Also on hand will be Ingrid Nystrom, Events Manager of Stacey’s Bookstore and Rosie Levy, Program...
Body Revolution
Teresa Walsh‘s powerful one-woman show, Body Revolution, is playing through October 15 at El Teatro de la Esperanza at 2940 16th Street in San Francisco. About the show, from Speak Out: Poet, playwright and actress Teresa Walsh, in her powerful one-woman show, Body Revolution: From Harlem to Havana, tells the story of her ascent into a new life. Literally. After she falls from her third story Harlem apartment window and is paralyzed, Walsh – and her audience – embark on a powerful, poignant and sometimes humorous journey from New York to Havana, Cuba. The play speaks of gender, race...
booknotes from Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Guest blogger Lauren Baratz-Logsted drops by again with a big passel of reviews: Something must be severely rotten in the city of Danbury, or life must be going too good, because I go on liking nearly everything I’m reading. Someone please stop me before I turn into a sap. The Days of Awe, by Hugh Nissenson. This is a damn quirky novel, published by Sourcebooks and written by a National Book Award and Pen-Faulkner finalist. It features a protagonist with whom I have nearly nothing in common, a 67-year-old male author of illustrated books of mythology, save that we’re...
the big one, san francisco style
Think you’re ready for the big one that’s supposed to blow the state apart at the seams sometime between now and 2035? Mark Morford asks you to think again. If this doesn’t persuade you to get off your custom-built redwood dining chair and put your earthquake kit together (if you’re reading this, you’re probably among the haves who possess the financial wherewithal to do so, as opposed to the have-nots who are likely to be as forgotten in the wake of the quake as the New Orleanians who were left behind), then nothing will.
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
