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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The police now have reason to believe that Billie Mcgee, the twelve-year-old girl who went missing Monday morning from the Bayview neighborhood in San Francisco, may have run away. They are concerned that she may be in the company of a man who had sent her inappropriate text messages.
Update, April 17: Bille Mcgee has been [...]
Twelve-year-old Billie Mcgee has been missing since Monday morning. She was last seen when she left her home in Bayview to take the bus to S.R. Martin College Preparatory School, where she is an honor roll student in the seventh grade. From the Chronicle: “Billie is 5-foot, 5-inches tall, African-American and weighs 140 pounds. She [...]
Two novellas by Gary Amdahl, I Am Death. From Kirkus: “Two narratives of frustrated possibility, offering an awareness of the brutal indifference of modern life.” More about the book on Bookforum. Amdahl’s previous book is the story collection Visigoth, winner of the Milkweed Prize for Fiction.
And hitting the shelves in June, David Sedaris’s latest [...]
Robert Owen, a sea captain and photographer who embarked on a photo tour of the places that inspired The Year of Fog several months ago, recently made another swing through San Francisco and has added many new photos to his Year of Fog photo set on flickr. Among them, this shot of the fly fishing [...]
I’ve recently been enjoying a hefty, beautiful book about San Francisco, called, simply, Historic Photos of San Francisco, with text and captions by Rebecca Schall. Dozens of photographs culled from the collections of the San Francisco Public Library span two centuries of the city’s development, from its beginnings as “The Paris of the West” [...]
