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WOOD ELF WAR PORN: a meditation on character and lifespeed inspired by The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

August 2, 2014
C. R. Stapor
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“The inside of outside no one has found.” – Jeff Tweedy Something has happened to us. To our characters specifically, and through them our culture as…

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ANTHOLOGY SF: openness, all around

June 28, 2014
Mick Harris
Event Review, REVIEWS

How do you write? If you’re at all like me you sit in front of the computer at odd hours, often with food in your…

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SCENE MISSING: leave it to weaver

June 23, 2014
Christopher Steffen
Event Review, REVIEWS

Entering The Cinecave has always had some speakeasy, rite-of-passage to it. One minute you are standing in the eclectic Lost Weekend Video and then, if you…

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WRITERS WITH DRINKS: toward eternal life

June 23, 2014
Christopher Steffen
Event Review, REVIEWS

Saturday night is the night you can take it all back. It is the only day of the week that most people in society count…

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GARRISON KEILLOR gets meta on the art of storytelling

June 19, 2014
Xan Roberti
Event Review, REVIEWS

On Tuesday, June 10th, at Corte Madera’s Book Passage, Garrison Keillor poked fun at contemporary writers, saying “Nowadays they jog! They drink carbonated Italian beverages!” Keillor,…

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VOZ SIN TINTA @ ALLEY CAT BOOKS

June 15, 2014
Christopher Steffen
Event Review, REVIEWS

I am sitting a few feet away from a fully-constructed, woven paper hut in a comfy leather chair. Letters from the incarcerated are strewn above…

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WET RECKLESS @ DOG EARED BOOKS

June 15, 2014
Mick Harris
Event Review, REVIEWS

Cassandra Dallett‘s San Francisco launch of her poetic memoir, Wet Reckless by Manic D Press, took place last Friday evening at Dog Eared Books in the…

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ONE LONE PEAR TREE: the return

June 10, 2014
Xan Roberti
Event Review, REVIEWS

To attend One Lone Pear Tree, you must pass through a sub-sidewalk downstairs door. There is a sense you are en route to a speakeasy,…

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13 CRIME STORIES FROM LATIN AMERICA: McSweeney’s @ The Booksmith

June 9, 2014
Lindsay Merbaum
Event Review, REVIEWS

On Monday night, June 2nd, readers emerged from the fog to gather in The Booksmith on Haight Street for the release of McSweeney’s‘ Thirteen Crime Stories…

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POETRY UNBOUND: one year anniversary @ Berkeley Art House

June 9, 2014
Charles Kruger
Event Review, REVIEWS

On Sunday, June 1st, east bay poets Richard Loranger and Clive Matson hosted the one year anniversary of their reading series, Poetry Unbound. Along with a…

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