SF Girl by Bay, who lives in Herb Caen’s old apartment, pays homage to the local legend Herb Caen. Via Apartment Therapy–those literary journals piling up? Don’t know where you’ll stash another issue of your Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, Paris Review, Believer, etc.? Try the ring rack. Via Interior Stories–could you write at this table?
Veterans of Bush’s war are committing suicide by the hundreds each month, but, apparently, our government doesn’t believe they really deserve health care. From the Chronicle today. More than 120 veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq commit suicide every week while the government stalls in granting returning troops the mental health treatment and benefits to which they are entitled, veterans advocates told a federal judge Monday in San Francisco…He said veterans are committing suicide at the rate of 18 a day – a number acknowledged by a VA official in a Dec. 15 e-mail – and the...
Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel, The Story of a Marriage, is the much-anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Confessions of Max Tivoli. The setting is San Francisco, 1953, and the narrator is Pearlie Cook, whose lyrical opening words, a kind of soliloquy for her damaged marriage, set the tone for this lovely, sensitive, thought-provoking novel. “Perhaps you cannot see a marriage. Like those giant heavenly bodies invisible to the human eye, it can only be charted by its gravity, its pull on everything around it.” As with Confessions, Greer has intricately drawn San Francisco in another time. Pearlie...
Time for the Progressive Reading Series! I’ll be reading with Jane Smiley (Ten Days in the Hills), Yiyun Lee (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers), Charlie Anders (Choir Boy), Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair), and Jeff O’Keefe. With special guests- The Progressive Reading Series All Star Minstrels, and Board Of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. Hosted by Stephen Elliott author of Happy Baby When: Saturday, April 19, 7pm Where: The Makeout Room- 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, (415) 647 2888 Price: $10 – $20 sliding scale Advance Tickets: $20. Paypal to ‘tribe AT stephenelliott.com’ Advance tickets strongly recommended. It’s gonna...
Green Apple Books is practically giving away books, people. Actually, the ongoing Warehouse Clearance Sale is coming to an end. All used books are now $2.98 or less. That’s a dollar less than a gallon of gas. A more on-point comparison: $2.98 is just a few cents over half of the five dollar penalty for bringing a book back to the library eons late. Which means it’s probably cheaper to buy it at Green Apple, because really, despite all your good intentions, how often do you take a library book back on time? All paperbacks are $1.49. Where: 248...
