Under the tree on Christmas morning, a swell stash of books that my personal Santa picked up from Green Apple Books on Clement Street in San Francisco The Jokers, by Albert Cossery I know nothing about this book, which is precisely why I love Green Apple: Santa will always find something he didn’t know he  Read more »

French booksellers and librarians have been wonderful to L’annee brouillard, the French translation (by Sophie Aslanides) of The Year of Fog. My latest thanks goes out to the library Villeurbanne, for naming L’annee brouillard as one of their favorite books.

Today at Daily Snapshot, Juliann Wetz has a lovely post about the seahorse-shaped hippocampus and its role in memory making. Check out her blog for a cool picture of seahorses at the Georgia Aquarium.

The McStay family went missing from their home in Falbrook, CA, in February of 2010. Joseph McStay, 40, and his wife Summer, 43, apparently left home in their Isuzu Trooper on the night of February 4 with their two children–Gianni, 4, and Joseph, Jr., 3. Aside from a call Joseph made to one of his  Read more »

Before I was a San Franciscan, I was a Southerner, and every reformed Southerner knows a thing or two about the Rapture. As a child in a strict Southern Baptist household in Alabama, fed a steady Sunday diet of Revelations, I lived in fear of the day Jesus would return, the graves would open up,  Read more »