Now that we’ve distanced ourselves a little bit from those 9 days of New Year I’ve had a chance to get caught up on all the footage we took. What follows is a wrap-up: The Effect of Fiction On Your Mind, Porchlight Storytelling: Takes of Hollywood Hell, Lit on the…

Overstimulation.

No time for polished thoughts

Forget sentences

Inspiration

Flashes

Sparks of recognition

spoken

in the mind

Just listen

and try to keep up

I have wanted to write since I was a child

and I’ve been an adult for a long time

There’s nothing…

Disclaimer: you can’t lose. Do not fret. Bring emergency supplies. Be smart. Trust strangers only if they’re holding Festival Guides. Trade books for books. Share poems. Dance in the corridor between yourself and the rest of the world.

Tomorrow is the largest literary crawl in the world. Ever, as in,…

Last night I met recent MacArthur Genius Award recipient Yiyun Li right after she watched her short story “Souvenir,” from Gold Boy, Emerald Girl acted out on stage at the Berkeley Rep. Ms. Li did not know me but I recognized her and immediately after the…

Because I don’t have a car and getting to Park Chalet for Surf Lit would have been nearly impossible, I biked straight down to the Haight, to Booksmith, to see Tao Lin read. Now I have neither read nor seen Mr. Lin before, but I am an avid reader of…

Holy Moly!

Are you quaking?

The thing with a 9-day long festival is that you want to get caught up but it keeps happening. So let’s try and get caught up before tonight’s Stories on Stage (altho once again there are so many quality options tonight, it almost makes me…

Yesterday was the “tent-pole,” which means that today we are on the waning half of this festival. Tonight is the busiest night, with 13 events to choose from!! The tough part is that you can’t really lose. Click here for a full schedule, or read on for a few…