An interview with Brian Lucas from The Write Stuff series: Brian Lucas lives in Oakland, CA. His most recent book is Now Land (ink drawings with an accompanying CD of music),…
I could write many thoughts for this column as we start off a New Year. A New Year should be a time of hope and…
Hello everybody, and hooray! It is 2021. And I will no longer be identifying these columns as “Covid Editions”—now that a new administration will be…
Written on 12/08/2020 It’s a humbling thought, but I don’t suppose that any of my readers, much loved though you are, particularly noticed that I…
An interview with Nicholas James Whittington from The Write Stuff series: Nicholas James Whittington is a poet, scholar, educator, editor, printer, publisher and father living in Oakland, CA since…
An interview with Jennifer Hasegawa from The Write Stuff series: Jennifer Hasegawa is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has sold funeral insurance door-to-door and had her suitcase stolen from…
Written on 11/25/2000 I grew up in a culturally Jewish home, but we were not religious. We sang some prayers (sort of—nobody knew more than…
An interview with Patrick James Dunagan from The Write Stuff series: Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library for the University of San Francisco….
Written on 11-17-20. Quite a few of my friends are expressing relief at the presumed election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. To be honest, I…
An interview with Mary Ladd from The Write Stuff series: Mary Ladd’s The Wig Diaries is an irreverent cancer book that pokes fun at diagnosis, treatment, medical bills and beyond. It is…