February 28, 2008

Jane Ganahl To Speak Next Week

Local favorite Jane Ganahl will be speaking next week in both San Francisco and Berkeley.  She will be talking about "Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife," recently released in paperback.  Ganahl will be appearing on March 1, 2 p.m. at Glen Park Branch Library, 2825 Diamond Street, San Francisco.  She will also be appearing Friday, March 7, 7 p.m. at Cody’s Books, 1730 Fourth Street, Berkeley.

February 1, 2008

Madeleine Albright’s Memo to the Next President

Former Secretary of State Madeliene Albright recently spoke in San Francisco about her new book, Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership.

 

November 30, 2007

Bucky Sinister and Spoken Word

By Mattie Bamman

Bucky Sinister, a San Francisco poet, is a large man with a big belly who wears a wife-beater to disguise his intelligence.  He has written three books of poetry — King of the Road Kills, Whiskey and Robots, and All Blacked Out And Nowhere To Go.  Sinister recently gave a reading at Delirium, a neighborhood bar in San Francisco’s Mission District. Read More . . .

October 25, 2007

San Francisco’s Litquake Transforms The Old-Fashioned Pub Crawl

By Karen Llagas

A baffled liquor store owner had left his cash register to investigate.  He was standing on the sidewalk outside his store, hands on his hips, watching dozens of people march in a kind of organized chaos up and down Valencia Street in San Francisco.

As I walked by him, he asked, “where are you people coming from?”

I answered: “Lit Crawl.”  Read More . . .