Snazzy event this Thursday night! I’m spinning a yarn about a magical batch of matzo ball soup that outlived its maker by…years. Oy. In this live production of the extremely popular Six-Word Memoir Project, eight Bay Area Jewish personalities take to the stage to share clever, thoughtful, and humorous life stories. Participants include SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik, Literary…

Saturday, July 7th, 8:00 – 9:00PM. Era Art Bar & Lounge. Oakland, CA. During Leg 3 of the Beast Crawl, a fabulous five-headed creature sloshes out of the Bay to fill brains with stories of laughter and woe, horror and insight… Beth Lisick Carolyn Cooke Rakesh Satyal April Sinclair Craig Clevenger Hosted by Alia Volz It’s…

INTERVIEW WITH ALIA VOLZ BY SETH AMOS Alia Volz’s story, “Vacajun” appeared in Dark Sky’s Issue 11. Here Alia talks about stereotypes, insomnia, and her earliest memories of magical desserts. Seth Amos: Your website says that you started writing during a long trek across the Iberian Peninsula, what was it about the journey that inspired you?…

VACAJUN BY ALIA VOLZ Way down in a bayou town. Just for kicks, my love, you and me, we don’t know this place. No infusion bars, vintage boutiques, or multilevel movie theaters; no yuppies or hippies or hipsters. People here lean too close, and slur through log lips, and you can count their swampy teeth. Hey,…

Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:00 PM It’s the most exciting thing to ever cost absolutely nothing! BAN6 presents Literary Death Match! Sponsored by ModCloth and The Written Wardrobe, this thrilling FREE event takes place at beautiful Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In a never-before-attempted feat of flexibility, four authors will read original work written especially for LDM, and inspired by paintings in YBCA’s BAN6…

July 14th, 2011 – 8:00PM San Francisco’s Literary Festival presents Cabaret Bastille, an evening that celebrates left bank bohemia and the American authors who left the US for La Ville Lumiere in the 20s to pursue their literary destiny, champagne (occasionally real pain) and sex, love and more, more, more; Authors who will channel their Jazz Age counterparts include…