For the fifth annual SFJazz Poetry Festival, Genny Lim has curated more than four nights of interdisciplinary performances. She’s used the opportunity to invest in the melding of music and poetry as a regional phenomenon. “Most of the artists are poets who have performed a lot with music,” Lim said by phone. “I’m trying to 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.
ELIF BATUMAN, AUTHOR OF ‘THE IDIOT’
Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010), was working on a book inspired by a Chekhov character who describes himself as having two distinct lives. “One is the open one that everyone can see, and the other one is running its course in secret,” Batuman said by Read More