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Litquake is San Francisco's annual literary festival. Originally named Litstock, the festival events took place in a single day in Golden Gate Park in the spring of 1999. It now has a two-week run in mid-October, as well as year-round programs and workshops.
This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, ... David M. Alexander (1945 – ), My Real Name Is Lisa; ... 1965 – ), The Kite Runner; Daedalus Howell (July 19 ...
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
In 1998, Muller was asked by the American Cinematheque to program their annual Festival of Film Noir, inspired by his book Dark City. [4] It was initially hosted at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, the festival, which was renamed "Noir City", migrated northward to San Francisco, finding a new location at the Castro Theater.
Few pop songs evoke such an overwhelming, immediate rush of pure joy more than Dexys Midnight Runners’ No. 1 hit “Come On Eileen.” In the world of 1982 pop radio, there was simply nothing ...
San Francisco Review of Books (SFRB) was a book review periodical published from the mid-1970s to 1997 in the Bay Area, California, United States.Founding editor-publisher Ronald Nowicki launched his publication April 1975, a time when the San Francisco Chronicle depended on the wire services for its reviews.
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: William S. Wilson: Birthplace: 1984 John Edgar Wideman: Sent for You Yesterday: Ron Hansen: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: William Kennedy: Ironweed: Jamaica Kincaid: At the Bottom of the River: Bernard Malamud: The Stories: Cynthia ...