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2002 Stories by Mark Athitakis

• The Fanboy Crusade

  published August 7, 2002

  Almost as long as there have been comic books, there have been comic book fans playing a little game called Who Would Win? If at some point in... More >>

• A Breath of Fresh Air

  published July 31, 2002

  By Amulya Malladi Ballantine Books (2002), $23.95 Amulya Malladi's gemlike first novel has a provocative, almost absurd... More >>

• How dangerous is Al Qaeda in America?

  published July 3, 2002

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• Read It and Weep

  published June 26, 2002

  People have accused the San Francisco Chronicle of a variety of shortcomings, but there's little question it's a paper that knows its... More >>

• The Olden Gays

  published June 19, 2002

  Contrary to earlier reports, "Harold's Historic Homo Home Movies" will not be screening this Sunday as part of the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. A... More >>

• The Endless Swimmer

  published June 12, 2002

  People call Pedro Ordenes crazy a lot. It's an off-the-cuff sort of thing, a joke. But you wonder. Maybe the word comes up so often because... More >>

• The Fortune Teller

  published June 5, 2002

  You may already be familiar with the oeuvre of San Francisco novelist Russell Rowland, though you may not know it. A few years back,... More >>

• The Long Way Home

  published May 29, 2002

  Everything that's good and bad about West Coast literature is stuffed into the consignment rack of City Lights Bookstore. From hand-stapled zines... More >>

• Un-Orthodox Behavior

  published May 22, 2002

  "These are our files," says Cappy Larson, opening a desk drawer in the attic of her Haight District home. "Don't look closely." The drawer is... More >>

• Sticky Situations

  published May 8, 2002

  Sticky Situations "There's a very fine line between '"hobby' and '"mental... More >>

• Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering

  published April 24, 2002

  By Wendy Lesser Houghton Mifflin (May 2002), $24 People are lousy readers. We keep hoping for that "perfect" reading, during... More >>

• What the Hell Is Copia?

  published April 10, 2002

  "Mmmmmm!" We all say this at once. It's 11:30 in the morning, sunlight trickles through the trees and spills onto the Napa River, and what... More >>

• Slow Movement

  published April 3, 2002

  The stunning news came at the beginning of this year. Well, maybe not stunning. Intriguing, perhaps. Or something -- it's hard to tell. But it was... More >>

• Emporium

  published March 27, 2002

  By Adam Johnson Viking (2002), $24.95 San Francisco author Adam Johnson's debut collection of short stories is populated... More >>

• Taxi Driver

  published February 20, 2002

  When Peter Kirby, the independent filmmaker, sat down at a Tenderloin coffee shop recently to talk about his oeuvre, we expected him to cop... More >>

• Ordinary People

  published February 20, 2002

  On film, group sex tends to be the stuff of Russ Meyer flicks: A straight-laced fella runs into a harem of pneumatic women, the hot-tub jets fire... More >>

• The Intimidator

  published February 13, 2002

  Chris White scares people. More specifically, Chris White scares darts players. Darts and fear don't seem as though they ought to go together;... More >>

• Radiance

  published January 30, 2002

  Carter Scholz's brilliant and densely researched first novel is a dizzying glimpse into the world of nuclear weapons research. Set in a compound... More >>

• The Butler Bellwether

  published January 23, 2002

  On a sunny afternoon a little while back, we found ourselves inside the mansion of a wealthy Pacific Heights couple. How wealthy? So wealthy that... More >>