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2002 Stories by Karen Zuercher

• The Great Divide

  published December 24, 2002

  The pile of white cotton gloves -- one-size-fits-all -- is the first sign that this is a different kind of art show. Visitors to Gallery Lux, on... More >>

• Lend Me Your Ear

  published November 27, 2002

  The man who calls himself the mayor of Baker Beach, Michael Warner, invites me to sit down in the lending library, a parking spot in the... More >>

• The Sixth Annual Latino Film Festival

  published October 30, 2002

  When the Jews were expelled from Spain during the Inquisition (on the eve of Columbus' 1492 journey to the New World), many escaped to Latin... More >>

• Going Mobile

  published October 30, 2002

  During the mid-to-late-'90s heyday of online publications -- when everyone kept saying that books, magazines, and newspapers would go the way of... More >>

• Heir Story

  published September 25, 2002

  If you were to list off the top of your head the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco, Sydney Goldstein's name might not come immediately to... More >>

• Critical Mass

  published August 28, 2002

  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in possession of a good review, must be in want of a book. With apologies to Jane... More >>

• Scrambled Eggers

  published August 14, 2002

  Death. Taxes. Dave Eggers. He's unavoidable: His fiction's in this week's New Yorker, he has a new novel coming out next month, and last... More >>

• Club-Hopping

  published July 31, 2002

  The words "book club" usually bring to mind a gaggle of twentysomething women sitting around someone's living room, sipping herbal tea and... More >>

• Guide Me

  published June 26, 2002

  Guidebooks are like politicians: We rarely think about them until we really need them, and then they often disappoint. Lug one or more such books... More >>