Pop-Up Magazine is the world’s first live magazine, created for a stage, a screen, and a live audience. Nothing will arrive in your mailbox; no content will go online. An issue exists for one night, in one place.

Pop-Up showcases the country’s most interesting writers, documentary filmmakers, photographers, and radio producers, together, on stage, sharing short moments of unseen, unheard work. Books, films, journalism, photography, and radio documentaries in progress. Obsessions and digressions. Outtakes, arguments, and live interviews.

Each evening of Pop-Up unfolds like a magazine. Short reviews, dispatches, and provocations anchor the front, longer features follow in the back. Our theme is no theme. Pop-Up seeks to explore the varied world around us, through stories and ideas. Science, music, politics, art, business, food, literature, design, nature—all in a 90 minute show.

Then we move to the lobby bar, and invite audience and contributors to stick around late. A Q&A is more fun with drinks in hand.

Editor-in-Chief
Douglas McGray

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Creative Directors
Derek Fagerstrom and Lauren Smith

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design director
Maili Holiman

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story editor
Evan Ratliff

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Technical Director
Dave Cerf

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Douglas McGray writes for The New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic Monthly. He’s a fellow at the New America Foundation. Derek Fagerstrom and Lauren Smith opened the Curiosity Shoppe on Valencia Street in 2007. Derek is a former editor at Readymade, Interview and Esquire magazines; Lauren previously worked for designer Todd Oldham. Maili Holiman is a designer in the Bay Area. She’s done art direction for Wired, Spin, and Readymade. Evan Ratliff writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Outside, and he’s a contributing writer at Wired magazine. Dave Cerf is a filmmaker, musician, and an interface designer at Apple, Inc. He is currently co-directing Utopia in Four Movements with filmmaker Sam Green.

Thanks to the Foundation for National Progress for nonprofit fiscal sponsorship.