Amy Stephenson: On Hustling, Basically, and Hunting Down that Blush
From an interview with Amy Stephenson, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: When people ask what do you do, you tell them… ? I start off stammering about being a bookseller but also running...
View ArticleChris Carosi: On Allowing People an Opportunity to Listen
From an interview with the poet Chris Carosi, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: What would you like to see happen in your lifetime? I would like to see less needless suffering and cruelty...
View ArticlePAIR WORK FAST AND LOOSE WITH POETRY, MUSIC
About two years ago, Chris Peck the Town Crier was driving back to San Francisco from Seattle, where he had been touring his double EP “Home Phone/Ghost of Payphone,” listening to Tongo Eisen-Martin’s...
View ArticleSteve Orth: on What Happens to the Soul When the Body Dies
From an interview with Steve Orth, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: What is your fondest memory? There was this one time… I hadn’t slept in a couple of days and I was all strung out. It...
View ArticleJosh Rosenthal: on Feeling and Expressing the Hard-to-Locate Aspects of...
From an interview with Josh Rosenthal, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: What’s wrong with society today? We read the headlines but people don’t feel empowered to create change. They don’t...
View ArticleHOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR CELEBRATES PEOPLE’S HISTORY, FUTURE
Too often, it is difficult to feel — much less mobilize — the power of the civic voice amid the forces of government and the interests of the city and state. In part an effort to combat this, last year...
View ArticleIan Brennan: on the Arrogance of Believing We Are Modern
From an interview with Ian Brennan, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: What is art? Is it necessary? Why? Art is anything done for its own aesthetic sake (without any other utilitarian...
View ArticleLewis Buzbee: on Going for Something Huge but Still Realistic
From an interview with Lewis Buzbee, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: If someone said I want to do what you do, what advice would you have for them? Start reading broadly and deeply, and...
View ArticleMeg Pokrass: on Something One Might Find Inside One’s Bellybutton
From an interview with Meg Pokrass, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: When people ask what do you do, you tell them…? First off, I hope you don’t mind if my literary agent, Peg Mokrass,...
View ArticleHOWARD JUNKER’S 12 BOOKS OFFER EDITOR’S TAKE ON MEMOIR
Five years ago, at the age of 70, Howard Junker retired from Zyzzyva, the literary magazine he founded in 1985. In need of something to do, he went through the archives of his own life and compiled a...
View ArticleKate Robinson: on What Happens If We Don’t Make Art with Our Excess Energy
From an interview with Kate Robinson, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: If someone said I want to do what you do, what advice would you have for them? Commit to and invest in yourself all...
View ArticleDELAYED MOVIE INSPIRES BIG CHANGES: Will Viharo’s Hard-Boiled Heart
Recovering from what he called his “latest romantic tragedy” back in 1993, Will Viharo turned down a movie recommendation from his father, which happened to be a love story. “It’s OK, Pop,” he said by...
View ArticleDaniel Curzon: on Seeing Through the Advertising and Being Courageous
From an interview with Daniel Curzon, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Do you consider yourself successful? Why? I do consider myself successful, because I decided at eighteen to be a...
View ArticleKelly Egan: on Staying Hydrated and Actually Doing This Thing
From an interview with Kelly Egan, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: What’s your biggest struggle — work or otherwise? Staying hydrated. If someone said I want to do what you do, what...
View ArticleDEPARTMENT OF MAKE BELIEVE: WRITING PROJECT FOR KIDS
Entering the Department of Make Believe has a peculiar effect on people. “It’s almost like a weird therapy,” Tavia Stewart-Streit, Chapter 510 co-founder and chief operating officer, said by phone....
View ArticleTrisha Low: on Being Okay with Being Okay and Making Pure Gestures of Refusal
From an interview with Trisha Low, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: When people ask what do you do, you tell them…? Someone once told me that in Germany it’s culturally unacceptable to not...
View ArticleAlison Luterman: on Owning up to Your Mistakes and Moving On
From an interview with Alison Luterman, for The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: If someone said I want to do what you do, what advice would you have for them? Um…get a BFA in poetry, then go into...
View ArticleLIKE SF, CHERKOVSKI GETTING OLD BUT STILL SQUAWKING
For the past 40 years Neeli Cherkovski has been living in San Francisco, where he’s put out 16 books and developed an international reputation as a person of letters. He reads from his latest, “The...
View ArticleRaina J. León on Inviting Poetry into Your Life in All Ways
From an interview with Raina Leon, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: If someone said I want to do what you do, what advice would you have for them? If someone says that they want to be a...
View ArticleSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI: Iranian American author finds balance in Seattle rain, S.F....
For Siamak Vossoughi, whose debut collection Better Than War won a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction and was published this week, writing is an opportunity for growth. “I tried to think,”...
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