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Daniel Barron
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Sloane Crosley’s Recommendations For Readers in Transit
Prolific nonfiction author (How Did You Get This Number?), book editor, and columnist Sloane Crosley is in the middle of moving apartments, an arduous process which can lead to all sorts of logistical and organizational problems for the bibliophile in…
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Debut Novel Merits Another Look for Peter Orner
San Francisco-based author and Rumpus columnist Peter Orner is the mind behind such works as The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and Love and Shame and Love. Now Esther Stories, his acclaimed debut collection of short stories, is available in a…
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Author Appearance: Anne Lammott and Son Have “Some Assembly Required”
San Francisco-based author Anne Lammott is the prolific novelist and non-fiction writer behind works such as Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year and the indispensable writer’s guide Bird by Bird. Her latest collection of autobiographical essays, Some Assembly…
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Mark Twain, Poet
Mark Twain has become a Russian doll of surprises, with new works, such as his memoir, being uncovered and rediscovered over a century after his death. While distinguished in the literary canon for his novels, short stories, and essays, a…
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KALW’s “Heard Here” Finds the Epic in the Ordinary
This Friday, April 12th, KALW 91.7FM presents “Heard Here,” an interactive evening of stories told live onstage at San Francisco’s Victoria Theater. The show features performances about the lives of ordinary locals who find themselves in amazing circumstances by the…