One literary organizer said to another: “Can you get a couple of Babar people to come in and read at the Octopus?” The resulting reading series, Babar in Exile, celebrates one year of quarterly shows this Thursday. Paul Corman-Roberts, poet and founder of the Beast Crawl festival, asked the question of poet Richard Loranger, who, in his 20s, Read More
Category: Out Loud
A column by Evan Karp, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook section, highlighting upcoming Bay Area literary events.
DEB OLIN UNFERTH’S STORY COLLECTION FULL OF SURPRISES, EMOTION
Deb Olin Unferth‘s new collection of stories Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf) is full of surprises, with twists and turns that often leave the reader disoriented and full of emotion. The author, most recently, of Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War—an autobiography finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Read More