For two months in 1913, the San Francisco Bulletin published daily installments of the autobiography of an anonymous prostitute the paper called Alice Smith. Her story, despite the impact it had on society at the time, was nearly forgotten and is collected for the first time in more than 100 years in Alice: Memoirs of a 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.
WHAT’S DADA? WORLD FAIR AT CITY LIGHTS EXPLORES THE ANSWER
It started with the simple, perhaps under-asked question: “Wouldn’t it be fun if we did something really crazy?” So said City Lights events director Peter Maravelis about the origins of the Dada World Fair — a two-week celebration of the avant-garde art movement’s centennial, which started Nov. 1. Maravelis was talking with Martin Schwartz of Read More