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Thirteenth annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
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 over 5000 [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2008 under community, events, literature.
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Day of Dead reading (with altars, food, and drink) at Chronicle Books
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 cards, [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2007 under literature.
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Latin American literature at LitQuake
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.
Posted: October 12th, 2007 under literature.
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Litquake
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.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 under literature.
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Litquake
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 at 20t, [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2007 under community, literature.
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Amy Tan’s San Francisco
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.
Posted: January 28th, 2007 under asian community, insiders, literature.
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