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 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
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
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her son,
Arts & Entertainment Friday: 826 Valencia's 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon This Friday, 826 Valencia is hosting 8 hours and 26 minutes of non-stop writing as part of their 2nd Ever 8/26 Day Write-a-Thon to benefit the organization's free student programming. We can
SF News David Foster Wallace Blamed for How We, Like, Talk on Blogs We couldn't help but read this piece in the NYT Magazine over the weekend in which writer Maud Newton points the finger at the late David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) and Dave Eggers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 78 Food Writing Words That Are Out The remarkable and remarkably talented Joyce Slaton of CHOW complied a list of the 78 most annoying words to read in a restaurant review. Among them? "Gastro pub," "sustainable," "toothsome," "meltingly tender," "slurp,
Arts & Entertainment 'The Gray Side of The Moon' Infuses S.F. With Merry Old Land of Oz L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has inspired some of the greatest forms of entertainment over the last 100 years. Let's see, there's this bizarre yet mildly racist silent
SF News J. D. Salinger Dies Reclusive author J.D. Salinger died. He was 91. Salinger was best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, and its 1961 follow-up, Franny and Zooey. Of the countless writers
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Insists Print Not Dead San Francisco's favorite writer Dave Eggers was honored the other night in New York City for his charity work at 826 Valencia -- the organization that tutors kids in writing skills and now
Arts & Entertainment Diane di Prima Named SF Poet Laureate Today, beat-ish scribe Diane di Prima was named the fifth Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Here she is back in the day reading something she wrote. Di Prima is wearing a lovely white,
