Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
Arts & Entertainment New Queer Literary Journal 'Foglifter' Releases Inaugural Issue Monday While San Francisco fights for queer spaces in the forms of bars and neighborhoods, some see a heightened need for a different kind of queer space: LGBT Writing. When Bloom folded, California was
Arts & Entertainment Castro Books Inc. Will Close June 15, Storewide Sale Of 30% Off 'Til Then Bad news in March that Books Inc.'s location in the Castro would close was tempered by good news later that month that the Castro would not be bookstore-less thanks to an expansion
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best San Francisco-Set Novels We live in a relentlessly beautiful place that has inspired many over the years. This has always been a city brimming with artists, writers, and musicians and SF's bohemian streak will hopefully not
Arts & Entertainment Do This Litquake Thing Tonight: Stories About Doubt, Debt, Drugs, And Determination (By Margaret Seelie) Litquake may have started this past weekend, but it's not too late to dive into this annual literary festival that's been growing in San Francisco since 2002. Tonight's event, "Sometimes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Joyce Carol Oates Eats Bad Vegan Meal In late breaking Berkeley dining news, Joyce Carol Oates (author of some of the greatest American works of our time) read Berkeley restaurant Venus to filth last night, Tweeting: "Second & last near-inedible
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin, Chronicler of '70s City Life, Leaving the City Sad news! Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City novels among others and a writer more fully identified with San Francisco than any other living writer we can think of (don't
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 Home Run! Baseball Tonight at SF Main Library Esteemed writer and bartender Alan Black will host a bevy of local baseball writers at Home Run! Baseball at the Library. Jason Turbow reads from his book The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Seeks Music Writers SFist seeks aurally-inclined, open-minded, and talented souls to steer our music voice. We are looking for writers with a strong interest in the local, national and worldwide (but mostly local) music/club scene.
SF News Danielle Steel’s Bookkeeper Sentenced to Prison for Fraud, Tax Evasion You've got to love local author Danielle Steel. Her daughters look nothing short of delightful, she successfully extracted herself out of the inner SF society sect, and her house looks like this. Which
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: It's NaNoWriMo Everyone! Yes, it's that time of year again when aspiring and/or hobbyist writers -- as well as those creative souls who feel their lives slipping away year by year with nothing to show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Launch party for Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser's newest release, which is, well, just as it sounds: six-word memoirs penned by famous and not-so-famous writers. Happens at the Rockit Room tonight. *CLUB:
SF News The Writers Strike Is Over!!!!!! Just moments ago, in a letter to its members, the WGA announced that writers have voted by a 92.5% margin to lift the “restraining order” and officially end the strike. The move
misc Week Around the -Ists A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs
SF News Critics Corner: WGA Strike PSAs It's not fair that our sister, LAist, gets all of the great writers strike coverage. Alas. But the Bay Area's own Sean Penn has joined the noble striking effort. He helped to create
misc Week Around the -Ists SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? That would make a good dramatic play.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch, CBS 5, NBC3] -- Kicking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Evil Dead 2 (1987): Sam Raimi's exquisite sequel to the equally-exquisite Evil Dead, minus any tree-rape. Screens at 7:15p.m., 9:15 at The Red Vic, 1727 Haight (at Cole). --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at 8 p.m. at Chez Poulet,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Deep Fried Murder: A play about the world of competitive eating, veganism, and breaking up. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. at the Climate Theatre, 285 - 9th Street; $12. -- Altered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
Arts & Entertainment The Finest Kind of Writer Friend of SFist Charlie Anders reminds us that her nifty and unusual spoken-word group, Writers With Drinks, will be experiencing yet another stupendous explosion of literary greatness this Saturday, the 9th, from 7:
