This Literary Magazine Release Party Will Be Epic!
How great does this release party sound? Flyer design by Jonah Price.
The Huge Release Party for the Literary Magazine
In case you haven’t heard, we just put out an incredible literary magazine called The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco thanks to a grant from the Civic Joy Fund. It’s a gift to San Francisco, where 19 of The City’s best authors and poets – writers with SO many fucking awesome accolades – use their wondrous talents to give you a taste of what it is to live in San Francisco. You can download your free copy right here.
But we’re also printing up 3600 copies of it and throwing a big ass release party. You’ll be able to grab free copies of The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco, plus, we’re buying beer for the first 200 people.
It’s happening on Sunday 7/28 from 2pm-4pm in Kerouac Alley (between Vesuvio and City Lights Books).
RSVP right here so we know how many copies to bring
There will be readings by:
Jack Boulware
May-lee Chai
Leticia Hernandez Linares
Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Carol Queen
Live music provided by:
Hope to see you all there! Tell all your friends!
About the Performers
Jack Boulware
Photo by Bart Nagel
Jack Boulware was a co-founder and executive director of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival. He is author/co-author of three books: Sex American Style, San Francisco Bizarro, and the Bay Area punk rock oral history Gimme Something Better. He’s currently working on a novel based on his experiences as a travel journalist, and can be found via his Substack newsletter, “What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize.” After 40 years in the city, he now lives in West Marin.
May-lee Chai
Photo by Bob Hsiang
May-lee Chai is an educator and author of eleven books of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, including her short story collections, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, recipient of the American Book Award, and Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and longlisted for The Story Prize. She teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her writing has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and recipient of an honorable mention for the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Book Awards.
Leticia Hernandez Linares
Photo by Claudia D. Hernández
Leticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning, interdisciplinary, bilingual writer, artist, & racial justice educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl & Alejandria Fights Back! ¡La lucha de Alejandria! Widely published, she is the co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, and she has performed her poemsongs throughout the U.S. and in El Salvador. She has lived, created, & protested in the Mission District of San Francisco for over thirty years, and she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.
Baruch Porras-Hernandez
Photo by Vita Hewitt
Baruch Porras Hernandez has been called a “Multi Hyphenated Artist! Daring, candid and inventive!” by the San Francisco Chronicle, was named a “Writer to Watch” by 7×7 Magazine, and is a poet, comedian, and illustrator originally from Toluca, Mexico who came here to steal all your jobs and make out with all of the hot dads. He’s performed all over North America, a strip club, and a cave once. He’s the author of two small poetry collections with Sibling Rivalry Press, had a donut named after him at Dynamo Donuts, is the host and creator of Donde Esta Mi Gente? Latinx Performance Showcase and is a regular host for KQED Live. He’s based in San Francisco.
Carol Queen
Carol Queen came to San Francisco almost 40 years ago to get a PhD in sexology. In 1990, she took a one-day-a-week job at Good Vibes and somehow never left. She’s a writer, speaker, and theorist of deep sex-positivity, co-founded the Center for Sex & Culture, and is working on a memoir.
Classical Revolution
Classical Revolution is an organization of musicians dedicated to performing high-quality chamber music in non-traditional settings. Founded in November 2006 at Revolution Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District, we have two important objectives: to enrich the San Francisco Bay Area with accessible chamber music and to create a support network for local musicians. Classical Revolution’s unprecedented success has inspired the creation of over 30 chapters across the United States, Canada, and Europe. In San Francisco, musicians have performed in more than 1000 Classical Revolution events in over 100 different Bay Area venues. Classical Revolution’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other leading media publications.
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