Frisco Vista

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The Bay Area has a long history of independent book publishing. Over at Right Reading I’ve listed ten Bay Area presses that would make good destinations for holiday shopping. The presses I included are: Counterpoint Press Gingko Press Heyday Books Manic D Press McSweeney’s Books Mercury House Parallax Press Re/Search Stone Bridge Press Whereabouts Press [...]

Frisco Vista received the following e-mail from Ken Knabb of the Bureau of Public Secrets. The 13th annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair is happening this coming weekend at the San Francisco County Fair Building (Golden Gate Park near Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way). Due to popular demand and continually increasing turnout (last year there were [...]

A book launch party for our book of translations of Latin American literature will be held this Thursday at 6:30 pm at Chronicle Books, 680 Second Street (between Brannan and Townsend). Below is a screen shot of an email announcement from the Center for the Art of Translation. The cool image is based on loteria [...]

Beginning at 8:00 on Saturday, October 13, I’ll be reading with Elizabeth Bell, Michael Koch, Anita Segástegui, and John Oliver Simon. The event will be at Encantada Gallery, 908 Valencia Street.

Litquake is under way. This ideo emphasizes its unorthodox venues. This Saturday I’m reading at one in the Mission, but I forget where — will post in a couple days.

Litquake is starting to roll out details of this year’s festival. “Authors appearing this year include Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Vikram Chandra, Gail Tsukiyama, Noah Levine, Ann Patchett, George Smoot,” according to the Litquake website, “and about 300 others.” I’m one of the 300 others. I’ll be reading at Encantada Galley and shop on Valencia [...]

The Washington Post, as part of a “People We Like and the Places They Love” series, recently ran an interview with Amy Tan on the subject of San Francisco. The image at left (cropped, somewhat desaturated, and adjusted for highlights and shadows) is from Tan’s official site.