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  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    One Writer's Quest to Find (People Having) Sex in the Library

    I've seen my share of salacious flap copy, but a friend's promotion of the forthcoming novella she edited for Harper Collins, Lust in the Library, caught my attention: "Some like it hot, and some like it in the reference section." "Do they?" I wondered, "or is this truly fiction?" Lust in the Libr ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 3, 2010

    This month's literary events

    I've seen my share of salacious flap copy, but a friend's promotion of the forthcoming novella she edited for Harper Collins, Lust in the Library, caught my attention: "Some like it hot, and some like it in the reference section." "Do they?" I wondered, "or is this truly fiction?" Lust in the Libr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Righteous Porkchop Discussion Probes the Ethics of Meat

    The moral debate about meat continues: whether to eat it, and if so, then what kind? Industrial meat, with its allegations of animal abuse, cramped quarters, and ongoing food safety violations, presents a certain queasiness in even the most rabid of carnivores. On the other hand, sustainably raised ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 2, 2009

    HUM525: Hitting the Books

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • Culture

    August 5, 2009
  • Culture

    March 18, 2009

    Upcoming Book Events

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    All Grown Up

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Russell Brand to Perform at Cobb's in Nov.

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Mea Culpas Are for Suckers

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • Calendar

    January 30, 2008

    Angry Sex

    Your required reading for the fall semester.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes rowdy concertgoers

    So, how will he behave on his new book tour?

  • Culture

    April 25, 2007

    The Yiddish Policemans Union

    So, how will he behave on his new book tour?

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    Killer Reads

    So, how will he behave on his new book tour?

  • Culture

    September 28, 2005

    Whole Lotta Shakin'

    Two new books on the 1906 earthquake prove themselves worthy complements

  • Film

    May 26, 2004

    Scars and Bars

    Bukowski gets his in a touching, terrifying documentary

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004
  • Culture

    February 25, 2004

    Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics

    This "manifesto" is nothing more than a novelty gift book for the unindoctrinated

  • Dining

    November 19, 2003

    Piece 'a Pizza

    The crunchy crust at the venerable Tommaso's still delights us

  • Film

    October 1, 2003

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Hitch in the Bay Area, zombie social structures, and theater-chain shenanigans

  • News

    August 6, 2003

    Zoned Out

    For her hot new dog-mauling book Red Zone, eye-pleasing author Aphrodite Jones re-created dialogue and scenes; her publisher and the Chron don't seem to mind

  • Culture

    July 30, 2003
  • Culture

    February 26, 2003

    How to Marry a Divorced Man

    Don't dye your shoes, unless you're willing to do everything for a wedding band

  • Culture

    December 24, 2002

    Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard

    James Ledbetter dissects the collapse of the late, great "Industry Standard"

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2002

    By Hook or by Book

    Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker, visits S.F. to read from her new autobiography

  • Calendar

    June 5, 2002

    The Fortune Teller

    A former writer of fortune-cookie aphorisms pens a compelling first novel about the trials of a Montana ranch family

  • Culture

    December 19, 2001

    Talkin' Tolkien

    Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

  • Film

    May 16, 2001

    Reel World

    A documentary on the hallucinatory visions of an architect dubbed the "William Blake of San Francisco."

  • Culture

    August 16, 2000

    Hot Wheels

    Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

  • Culture

    May 31, 2000

    Stalker Fiction

    Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

  • Film

    March 8, 2000

    Reel World

    Tight Spot and The Big Clock

  • News

    April 21, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Tight Spot and The Big Clock

  • News

    April 14, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Tight Spot and The Big Clock

  • Music

    June 10, 1998

    Oh, Silver Deities!

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • Music

    March 4, 1998

    Oh, the Horror!

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • Music

    November 12, 1997

    Night Crawler

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • News

    October 22, 1997

    Dog Bites

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • Dining

    October 30, 1996

    Dish

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • Music

    December 13, 1995

    Books

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

  • News

    October 11, 1995

    Mondo 1995

    Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

  • Calendar

    March 8, 1995

    Savage Love

    Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug Zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder by inter

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