David Johnson-Igra is the founding editor of SFCritic, an online San Francisco music weekly. He is also a columnist for Betterpropaganda, and SF Station. When he's not writing, he's volunteering at 826 Valencia.
Elissa Schappell and I met too many years ago to say, at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. We were both waiters, which means that you serve students, scholars, fellows and…