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Inspiration for the reader from SF Outside Lands

If you happened to be anywhere near the city this scorching weekend, you likely heard the dulcet tones of this years Outside Lands Music Festival,...
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Literary Pride 101: show your San Francisco spirit with local reads

I once posed a query to a friend of mine: “Chicago is the ‘Windy City’, and New York is the ‘City That Never Sleeps’,...
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Book Bargains 101: How to build your library while keeping your wallet intact

We can all agree that the US Economy is not at its best…and that, of the 50 states, California isn’t exactly at the top of the class...
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'Just One More Book' is a technological heaven for the young reader

Let’s face it: reading is really no fun at all unless you have someone to enjoy it with you. Now I don’t mean someone to sit there and...
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Spotlight on local author Blake E. S. Taylor

The art of reading is built upon the ability of the reader to completely immerse themselves in the mind of another. There exist, however, works of...
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BANG OUT: Further evolutions of the monkey

My previous article on the Ecstatic Monkey reading series - posing the question of “what is this monkey and where did it go?” - drew...
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Ecstatic Monkey: Why is the monkey so happy?

In the prehistory of my writing career, as I worked through the creative writing program at San Francisco State, all the talk was of the new...
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Mary Roach: Keep on bonking

We’re going to solve this panda question once and for all.Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Spook, was in town this week to promote her newest...
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Mark Morford: Get him before he's gone

With the economy what it is, and with print media rapidly being suffocated out by the dominance of free and convenient internet articles, where are...
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I like Dick: Philip Dick, that is

“San Francisco, San Francisco, you’re a muttering bum in a brown beat suit,” wrote Jack Kerouac, “can’t make a woman...
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