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Come to a party, June 9 at Cushion Works / Issue Two is underway

Dear readers,

We are hard at work on the next issue, due out this summer, and more on that below, but that’s not the news quite yet. The news:

We’re helping to throw a party to celebrate The Back Room, Small Press Traffic’s singular online publishing project. You should come. There will be a bilingual reading of TBR’s final commission, Camille Roy’s “LAND BEHIND BAGHDAD;” and for our part, Katherine Ross Ward is presenting a canape-based preview of Issue Two. We’ll also have our last box of Issues One for sale or subscribing.

I announced the Review in an essay for TBR. This is the direct tie, but there are many loose ones that connect both TBR and SFRW to the ongoingness of Bay Area publishing as carried out by artists, poets, and experimenters, to projects that have given us the ground for collective whatever. It’s nice to celebrate these things.

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May 29, 2025
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SFRW Issue One is out! / Party February 28!

Dear readers,

It is so great to let you know that the first issue of San Francisco Review of Whatever is out, and making its way to early subscribers and pre-orderers. ← You can join them at those links! You can also pick up a copy at City Lights or Scenic Routes Community Bicycle Center in San Francisco, and at East Bay Booksellers (happily revived post-fire in a new location), Bathers Library, or Pegasus Books in the East Bay.

Importantly: we’re having a party! Come celebrate the release of Issue One on Friday, February 28, at Et al. in the Mission, San Francisco. There will be conversation: Beatrice Kilat and Megan Riley will talk about FASHION; Caitlyn Galloway and I will talk about HER PROCESS MAKING OUR BEAUTIFUL AND IMPRESSIVE LOGO; and Kelly Pendergrast and Kate Rhoades will talk about DONALD JUDD. Say hello to us and to each other. Buy SFRWs for your friends and enemies. Look at the art show that will still be up. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the program starts at 7:00 p.m. Conversation is the greatest pleasure!

A photo of the magazine over a green paper background. The magazine has a tilted pink rectangle over a gray rectangle, and the pink is overlaid with painted-looking text: San Francisco Review (and further tilted) of Whatever. Green texts reads: Issue! One! 2025!
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February 14, 2025
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Announcing Issue One of San Francisco Review of Whatever

Hello! We have been hard at work getting San Francisco Review of Whatever off the ground and have news to share:

We are very excited to announce that annual subscriptions and Issue One preorders are now available on our shiny new website.

This issue features essays, memoir, reviews, and art by (mostly) Bay Area writers: including Beatrice Kilat on why San Francisco dresses like it does, Kelly Pendergrast on good and bad rectangles, Claudia La Rocco on leaving the Bay, and Sofía Córdova checking in from abroad. We expect to get it back from the printer and send it off to you in January.

Beyond buying or subscribing, here are some other ways you can support this new project:

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November 24, 2024
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