Ohmigod! City Lights!
Like Mr. Orthofer, I’m both delighted and appalled to see City Lights get the profile treatment. There isn’t time right now to investigate whether Times contributor Megan Walsh has a troublesome...
View ArticleStacey’s Closes
Stacey’s, the dependable bookstore on Market Street that kept many Financial District serfs reading good books, is going to be closing in March, and I’m more than a little devastated. This was a...
View ArticleThomas Gladysz Laid Off from Booksmith
I have learned that Thomas Gladysz, the events coordinator for the now less wonderful San Francisco bookstore Booksmith, has been let go by new owners Christin Evans and Praveen Madan. No explanation...
View ArticleNon-Intimidating
The San Francisco government had gone out of its way to declare the police station “non-intimidating,” It all started when a young innovator had suggested sending brochures to nearby residents by...
View ArticleBen Tarnoff (The Bat Segundo Show #541)
Ben Tarnoff is most recently the author of The Bohemians. Author: Ben Tarnoff Subjects Discussed: Why 1860s California was especially well suited to literary movements, draft riots, Thomas Starr King,...
View ArticleThirteen Years in New York
New York sneaks up on you like a black bear trawling outside your tent at sunrise. As the beast paws through food and ravages the site you staged with immaculate care, you realize that this wily...
View ArticleThe City in History (Modern Library Nonfiction #76)
(This is the twenty-fourth entry in The Modern Library Nonfiction Challenge, an ambitious project to read and write about the Modern Library Nonfiction books from #100 to #1. There is also The Modern...
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