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Category: Out Loud

A column by Evan Karp, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook section, highlighting upcoming Bay Area literary events.

MADISON DAVIS ON HER DEBUT BOOK, DISASTERS

MADISON DAVIS ON HER DEBUT BOOK, DISASTERS

Posted on January 26, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press Timeless Infinite Light. “I think it came of my own experience of loss and grief,” she said by phone. “I’ve lost a lot of people; I deal with my brother’s Read More

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A 100-DAY COUNTERNARRATIVE THROUGH ART

A 100-DAY COUNTERNARRATIVE THROUGH ART

Posted on January 12, 2017March 11, 2024 by Evan Karp

Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Jeremiah Barber were sitting on their couch, horrified by Donald Trump’s 100-day plan. “It occurred to us that he’s such a performative person, and that he was speaking our language in some way,” Contreras, a writer, said. “We wanted to see what it would be like if we were to do Read More

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