October 9, 2011, 1:00 PM
Variety Preview Room
582 Market St.
What makes someone who lives in the Bay Area tick? Find out through these fictional explorations. Mystery, murder, martinis, manual labor, Muni bonds, and machine guns. Everything you could desire from an hour of fiction.
Frank Bergon, Barnaby Conrad III, Thaisa Frank, Seth Harwood, Karen Tei Yamashita, Merla Zellerbach
Part of Off the Richter Scale, Day Two
Our second day of Off the Richter Scale brings the epicenter home with two hours of writing from California and the Bay Area, before heading off to explore writing in extreme circumstances and from deep within the mind—defined in terms spiritual, physical, or cybernetic.



