Teresa Walsh‘s powerful one-woman show, Body Revolution, is playing through October 15 at El Teatro de la Esperanza at 2940 16th Street in San Francisco. About the show, from Speak Out: Poet, playwright and actress Teresa Walsh, in her powerful one-woman show, Body Revolution: From Harlem to Havana, tells the story of her ascent into a new life. Literally. After she falls from her third story Harlem apartment window and is paralyzed, Walsh – and her audience – embark on a powerful, poignant and sometimes humorous journey from New York to Havana, Cuba. The play speaks of gender, race...
Monthly Archives: September 2005
booknotes from Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Guest blogger Lauren Baratz-Logsted drops by again with a big passel of reviews: Something must be severely rotten in the city of Danbury, or life must be going too good, because I go on liking nearly everything I’m reading. Someone please stop me before I turn into a sap. The Days of Awe, by Hugh Nissenson. This is a damn quirky novel, published by Sourcebooks and written by a National Book Award and Pen-Faulkner finalist. It features a protagonist with whom I have nearly nothing in common, a 67-year-old male author of illustrated books of mythology, save that we’re...
the big one, san francisco style
Think you’re ready for the big one that’s supposed to blow the state apart at the seams sometime between now and 2035? Mark Morford asks you to think again. If this doesn’t persuade you to get off your custom-built redwood dining chair and put your earthquake kit together (if you’re reading this, you’re probably among the haves who possess the financial wherewithal to do so, as opposed to the have-nots who are likely to be as forgotten in the wake of the quake as the New Orleanians who were left behind), then nothing will.
booknote: The Bitch Posse
Imagine the Heathers on meth…and coke, and vodka, and Xanax. Add some razors, some seriously messed-up parents, a blood pact, an affair with a high school teacher, and about fifteen years to see how all of this stuff informs their adult lives. There you have Martha O’Connor‘s raw-edged and wildly readable debut novel, The Bitch Posse. I interviewed O’Connor a couple of months ago on Fiction Attic. Read the interview here.
mumpsimus on MacArthur Awards
Matthew Cheney of The Mumpsimus admires Jonathan Lethem‘s work, but laments the fact that the MacArthur Awards generally go to authors who have already enjoyed considerable success. One of the three criteria for the award, Cheney notes, is that “fellowships must be able to relieve constraints that prevent the recipients from freely working on their most innovative projects, to do what might not be done otherwise.” Cheney argues wisely that the Jonathan Lethems of the world, at this point in their careers, are already free of those constraints, and boldly asks what might happen if the financially secure recipients...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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