Arts & Entertainment SF Author Kate Folk's 'Sky Daddy' Explores Objectophilia, Takes Place Largely At SFO SF author Kate Folk is releasing a new book, Sky Daddy, which deals with the taboo subject of objectophilia set against the backdrop of SFO and Silicon Valley. The main character, an online content moderator, gets her thrills via AirTrain rides around SFO, fantasizing about encounters with aircraft.
Arts & Entertainment Recently Discovered Children's Story Written By Mark Twain To Be Published This Fall Sifting through the Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, one scholar struck literary gold, or at least enough raw material to turn into something of value: A set of
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
SF News S.F. Public Library Makes Super Bowl Bet With Baltimore Library In what's being called a "cross-country battle of the libraries," the fine folks at San Francisco Public Library have placed a bet with the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Both of them
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Hear A Literary Mixtape We were jazzed about Quiet Lightning's submission-based lit reading series when it debuted in the Conservatory of Flowers a few months back. Tonight, the local literary concern collides with LitQuake for the final
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Beer And Lit In The Conservatory Of Flowers Tonight in Golden Gate Park, the folks from local literary concern Quiet Lightning will host the first of three monthly Greenhouse Effect beer-and-literature events in the always lovely Conservatory of Flowers. The event
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Litquake Speakeasy at Public Works Get your 1920s on at a speakeasy party in the Mission care of the fine scribes at Litquake. Hear excerpts of biting authors read by some of your favorite Bay Area writers, including
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/4: Jonah Lehrer LECTURE: Jonah Lehrer of Wired Magazine and Radio Lab fame will be be talking about his latest book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, which shatters the myths of muses and “creative types” and argues
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck. You
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2011 Lineup Announced Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Orlean, James Ellroy, Mary Roach, Ishmael Reed, Adam Mansbach, Jane Smiley, Chris Adrian, Thomas McGuane, Christopher Moore, Daniel Woodrell, Deepak Chopra, Cyra McFadden, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña are just a few
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PHOTOGRAPHY: After this month, cult-favorite Kodachrome slide film, which stopped being manufactured in 2009, will no longer be processed (which brings a fat tear to this photography-loving contributor's eye). RayKo Photo Center celebrates
Arts & Entertainment Local Bookmongers All Either Dying or Frenetic or Both by Matt Baume It's tough times for local booksellers. With Abandoned Planet cleaned out, McDonald's given the heave-ho, and the name of the frightening Forever After Books in the Haight thankfully shown to
SF News J.D. Salinger Tribute: Top 5 Holden Caulfield Catchphrases by Amy Crocker In honor of J.D. Salinger, whose Catcher in the Rye is as fundamental to 10th grade English as FOIL is to 8th grade algebra, we've recapped the top five
Arts & Entertainment Ethan Watters Book Launch Party by Rachel Brodsky Remember back in college where the English professors would badger you to come up with the best paper thesis possible? Your thesis had to be focused, controversial, and most importantly,
Arts & Entertainment <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> Party & Film Review Well, would you look at that. SFist landed an invite to a VIP party at the Contemporary Jewish Museum for a fete honoring Spike Jonze's re-telling of Where the Wild Things Are. Actually,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Learn how changing your diet can reduce carbon emissions as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient car in the new book Cool Cuisine: The Global Warming Diet.. Tonight, Cool Cuisine co-authors Eugene
Arts & Entertainment David Cross at Union Square Borders on Saturday The irreverent David Cross, who captured America's hearts (or at least the smart part of America) as the "never-nude," "analrapist" Tobias Funke and who graced SFist's comments with his controversial presence back in
misc Literary Map of San Francisco Jeff Hunt of Muni Diaries forwarded us this beautiful map adorned with literary quotes that have shaped our beloved San Francisco, which was created by Ian Huebert. We love the whimsical typography and
SF News Man Reads James Joyce's <i>Finnegans Wake</i> Out Loud at Civic Center Plaza As SF Weekly noted yesterday, Lars Russell, a San Francisco-based writer, starting reading the entirety of Finnegans Wake out loud at Civic Center Plaza near the San Francisco Public Library. The work, Jocye's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SF Camerawork celebrates its 35th anniversary with a two-part exhibition. Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself features the work of artists who have contributed to the cultural make-up of the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The documentary Bird's Nest: Herzog & de Meuron in China follows two star Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who are building bridges between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Terrorbird and Smile! present a stellar night of disco pop. Hailing from NYC, octet The Phenomenal Handclap Band will get the dancefloor moving and sweating. Bay Area faves Bart Davenport, Tempo No
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: "Backpack Burlesque! Campfire Comedy! Sultry Acts of Nature!," boast the organizers of tonight's Summer Camp-themed Hubba Hubba Revue. Come enjoy a whole line-up of performers at this titillating variety show that won
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's your last chance to view the current exhibitions at SF Camerawork. The Summer Exhibition Cool-Down Party features Ersatz Group Exhibition, Leaving A Mark: Cutter Photozine, and The 2009 James D. Phelan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: San Francisco artist Micke Tong will be exhibiting a new series of site-specific conceptual art pieces, drawings, and installation sculptures in Micro-Habitat. Viewers can expect to find "low-rider inspired candy colored taxidermy
