Category: Books & Literature

Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning. Jonathon Escoffery is the author of If I Survive You, a collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon moving to Miami.  Details Map Continue reading

Daniel Curzon’s new book, All Creatures Sad and Funny, include drawings as well as writing.  Local author Richard May will read read from his new short story collection.  Details Map Continue reading

Book reading at Fabulosa Books in the Castro A richly imagined queer historical novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Undefeated by her history — family ruination, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood, and a passionate attachment to another woman — she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. ​Mari Coates is an MFA alumna of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in San Francisco with her wife and two kitties. She has been an arts writer, a theater critic, and… Continue reading