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Teen poets praise Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In honor of what would be the 81st birthday of famed civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Youth Speaks will showcase the Bay Area’s leading youth spoken word artists and performers in an...
View ArticleDave Eggers two in one at UC Berkeley
ZEITOUN On Thursday February 11, at 5 p.m., literary luminary Dave Eggers will read from his most book, Zeitount, he story of one man's life after Hurricane Katrina, in Morrison Library on the UC...
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Liza Ketchum spreading the news on Newsgirl
Liza Ketchum's latest book for ages eight to 12 is "Newsgirl." It is the story of Amelia, a young girl living in San Francisco in the early 1850's who learns that newsboys make a...
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The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick is a longtime financial journalist for Fortune Magazine. During a conversation with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Davos 2008 he expressed his desire to write a book about the...
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Tracy McMillan | "I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway"
Tracy McMillan wrote TV news for ten years. "I think that's where I developed my style...aggressively conversational, I just write as though I'm talking," she told the San Francisco Chronicle. After...
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Start writing San Francisco!
San Francisco probably has more writers per capita than any other metropolitan area. I know it has more lawyers per capita and I would assume more students since the largest public college in the...
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San Francisco novel re-imagines 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Chris Adrian's new novel, 'The Great Night' romps and rolls through Buena Vista park as if it was Shakespeare's forest. "It's filled with faeries and mystical events and the...
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Want to Write a Memoir?
Whether or not you end up publishing your work, writing a memoir can be (I've heard) cathartic.In the August 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Abigail Thomas wrote a helpful article, How to Write...
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Quiet Lightening in a Bottle
Quiet Lightening is quite amazing. It is many things, primarily a literary reading series occuring on the first Monday of the month. The beauty is that they choose the readers based on anonymous...
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Literary Quote Map of San Francisco
Local artist Ian Heubert worked with the book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, John McMurtie, to create a luscious map (click for full size) of San Francisco with the neighborhoods filled in...
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Andrew Lam's Vietnamese-American Cultural Journey
Andrew Lam's new book, Birds of Paradise Lost, provides insights to the other side of the historical influx of Vietnamese into my hometown of San Francisco starting around the Fall of Saigon in April...
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Amy, We Hardly Knew Ya
"Amy, My Daughter", by Mitch Winehouse, (HarperCollins UK on | 5/29/2013)I was happy to learn that Amy Winehouse liked Cabbage Patch dolls and her father would send away for the "adoptions."He was a...
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Fruitvale Station - the good, the bad, & the very, very ugly
Oscar Grant was an individual and he wrestled with demons but this film shows just how horrific and random and unacceptable the behavior of the BART police were on that night.Thankfully it was...
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Science Shows Singing With Others Makes You Happy
I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.— Brian EnoStacy Horn is a remarkable woman who founded NYC based virtual community, Echo in 1990.Her latest book is, Imperfect Harmony: Finding...
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