Anyone with internet access has surely heard about author Amy Chua. Her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was recently excerpted in the Wall Street Journal and paired with a rather baiting headline that Chua likely didn't write: "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior." more ›

Noir poetry, a fashion feud, and a last chance to see 'Where the Wild Things Are' on the big screen. more ›

In addition to marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake, Saturday also marks the annual Litquake Lit Crawl, a three-phase bar crawl through the Mission featuring a great many writer types reading while others listen and drink. Herewith, we give you a few highlights to check out, assuming you won't be checking out the headliners who'll be going on right about then at Treasure Island. more ›

Santa Rosa pediatrician Dr. Mark Sloan has written a book called Birth Day, in which he delves into some of the mysteries of childbirth, and the history of the process itself from Aristotle and Julius Caesar, to a cross-dressing army surgeon, up to the medical practices of the modern day. Sloan is giving a reading tonight at Copperfield's Books in Santa Rosa, and we sat down for a few questions with him. more ›

Novelist Joe Gores, a former private eye who has written seventeen novels including the acclaimed Hammett, has written a hard-boiled, old-timey noir "prequel" to Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon called Spade & Archer which is set in San Francisco and fills in the picture of Sam Spade as he sets up his detective agency, hires his tomboyish secretary Effie Perrine and brings in Miles Archer as a partner. more ›