Dave Eggers, The Circle and Why I’m Leaving the Bay Area
I can’t tell you definitively what brought me to San Francisco seven years ago. I mean, graduate school, but why did I apply to San Francisco State?...
LiteratureA collection of 21 posts
Jerry Stahl Shot Heroin with a Tenderloin God
Jerry Stahl is the author of eight books, including I, Fatty; Bad Sex On Speed; and Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller; and edited the 2013 collection, The Heroin Chronicles....
The Famous Writer Who Lied to Me
San Francisco has hosted a rich annual celebration of writing for more than a decade thanks to Litquake....
Dave Eggers Rips Into Silicon Valley Tech Cults
If you’ve ever worked for a startup you already know some companies operate like cults....
Big Changes at Adobe Books
Editor’s Note: As part of our Facing Change package, we invited Mission icon Andrew McKinley to write a piece about having to move his beloved shop, Adobe Books, after his landlord raised the rent by a significant amount....
What Is the San Francisco Dream?
When I was a kid, I was sure I’d grow up to be a writer. I imagined living in Los Angeles with my best friend, working toward our ultimate joint-life goal of becoming the next Tina Fey-Mike West hybrid genius television-writing partners....
Bookin’ It to the Bar
“Reading is for dorks,” the bouncer tells me as a group of 20-somethings approaches the bar....
Book Ends
Adobe Books is going out of business, and there’s not much anyone can do about it....
Literary Drinking
As a poet recently released from the repressive wine-and-cheese readings of academia, I’m really tired of balancing plastic cups of Two-Buck Chuck on my knees while listening to a guy at a podium whose every sentence trails upward....