(Maureen Blennerhassett) It’s official. San Francisco is a literary destination. But you knew that, that’s why you moved here. Seems like you can’t throw a…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Before I publicly criticize a New York Times best seller, a cult icon, a writer whose words I admire, let me just say…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) On the first of June, I was sitting in the Main Library’s auditorium. It was the first day of my favorite month, of…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) I didn’t know what the term “sex-positive” meant before Bawdy Storytelling. I heard it mentioned by a few of the storytellers (Shar Rednour…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Have you seen the Bay Citizen app that mystically predicts which of the many Bay Area reading series’ could be right for you?…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) If you live in the Sunset, Pac Heights, North of the Panhandle, anywhere that doesn’t smell like piss: chances are you’re a little…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) To quote the French poet Charles Péguy: “A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from…
Tues Feb 22 11, The Luggage Store (Maureen Blennerhasset) The last thing I expected when I went to the Luggage Store Gallery was to see…
Sat Feb 19 11, Makeout Room (Maureen Blennerhassett) What with some great human injustices persisting in the news today, the last word I would use…
Fri Feb 11 11, Booksmith (Maureen Blennerhassett) On the second Friday of each month, the Booksmith opens its doors to a pack of well-read clowns….
Jan 28 11, The Booksmith (Maureen Blennerhassett) Who better to spend a Friday evening with than the crème de la crème of women’s erotica? Sounds…
Sunday, January 23, 2011 (Maureen Blennerhassett) What makes you blush? Colonists who gather at the Fivepoints Arthouse each week to “engage in the disreputable act…
