James Joyce

Probing Epiphanies at the Dubliner

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Ralph Carney Gets (Moderately) Serious with The Serious Jass Project

​If any rock performer can double as a character in a James Joyce novel, it's Ralph Carney. A multi-instrumentalist best known as reedman for Tom Waits and a host of others, the S.F.-based Carney plays the way he talks: expansive, eccentric, and endlessly discursive. As a member of Tin Huey, he wa ... More >>

Zeitgeist Resurrected

​If any rock performer can double as a character in a James Joyce novel, it's Ralph Carney. A multi-instrumentalist best known as reedman for Tom Waits and a host of others, the S.F.-based Carney plays the way he talks: expansive, eccentric, and endlessly discursive. As a member of Tin Huey, he wa ... More >>

Alice Medrich Talks Cookies at Omnivore Books

Alice Medrich.​Why couldn't some honest book publisher just call Ulysses by James Joyce Man Walks Around Dublin, Thinking? So it would sound important, maybe? The publisher of the latest book by local chocolate maven Alice Medrich had no such pretensions. Medrich's tome about cookies is called ... More >>

Prop. 8 Ruling: Literature and Strategy

​UPDATE: APPEAL FILED THIS MORNINGThe multitudes who took to the streets yesterday to either celebrate or denigrate Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning Prop. 8 in many ways resembled the millions of tipplers worldwide who lift a glass on Bloomsday -- but would never dream of reading Ulysses. ... More >>

"Travesties": Tom Stoppard's brainy getaway at Marin Shakespeare

​UPDATE: APPEAL FILED THIS MORNINGThe multitudes who took to the streets yesterday to either celebrate or denigrate Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning Prop. 8 in many ways resembled the millions of tipplers worldwide who lift a glass on Bloomsday -- but would never dream of reading Ulysses. ... More >>

Flashes of Light

​UPDATE: APPEAL FILED THIS MORNINGThe multitudes who took to the streets yesterday to either celebrate or denigrate Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning Prop. 8 in many ways resembled the millions of tipplers worldwide who lift a glass on Bloomsday -- but would never dream of reading Ulysses. ... More >>

Man Completes S.F. Public Reading of 'Finnegans Wake' in 29 Hours, 15 Minutes -- Nobody Knows Why

​Several minutes before 6 p.m. yesterday in Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco writer Lars Russell read the final sentence of James Joyce's hilariously incomprehensible novel, Finnegan's Wake. Then, still gripping the tome, he executed a forward flip into the shrubbery, inad ... More >>

Hurry! You Have T-Minus Three Hours To Get Your Dog-Eared Copies of Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy (and Lots of Great Stuff).

Joe EskenaziGot lunch plans? Change 'em.Who are the patron saints of rummage book sales? So many to choose from -- but, then, there are so many saints. Leon Uris, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Tony Hillerman, Ed McBain, Robert Ludlum, Harold Robbins, the authors of Time-Life hardbacks (such as Reptile ... More >>

A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Joe EskenaziGot lunch plans? Change 'em.Who are the patron saints of rummage book sales? So many to choose from -- but, then, there are so many saints. Leon Uris, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Tony Hillerman, Ed McBain, Robert Ludlum, Harold Robbins, the authors of Time-Life hardbacks (such as Reptile ... More >>

Renaissance men at the Nag's Head

Joe EskenaziGot lunch plans? Change 'em.Who are the patron saints of rummage book sales? So many to choose from -- but, then, there are so many saints. Leon Uris, James Michener, Tom Clancy, Tony Hillerman, Ed McBain, Robert Ludlum, Harold Robbins, the authors of Time-Life hardbacks (such as Reptile ... More >>

Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes rowdy concertgoers

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

Only in San Francisco

The sole Istrian restaurant on the West Coast is hiding in plain sight

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Travesties

Energetic and witty, this talky Stoppard might leave you feeling dumb

Un-Stoppard

Energetic and witty, this talky Stoppard might leave you feeling dumb

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Energetic and witty, this talky Stoppard might leave you feeling dumb

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A Prophecy Unfulfilled

Indigo Prophecy offers creepy fun but fails to live up to cinema-size hype

Word Warriors

The Perpetual Motion Roadshow -- indie publishing meets rock 'n' roll

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Literary Sampling

What Tom Stoppard did in this 1974 play would be too expensive to try today

Musical Theater

A striking performance

A Winding Path

Why a Bay Area microbiologist turned to the New Age art of building labyrinths -- by hand, out of dirt

Music Awards Nominees

Why a Bay Area microbiologist turned to the New Age art of building labyrinths -- by hand, out of dirt

The Story of M

When perverts navel-gaze

Dog Bites

"Jesus spoke out about tax collectors and politicians, and we're supposed to do the same."

House of Tudor

The squirlly Full Moon Partisans square off against the folky Two Gallants; puppets give the cat the hatchet

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The squirlly Full Moon Partisans square off against the folky Two Gallants; puppets give the cat the hatchet

Disease Detective

Deborah Hayden's new book, Pox, pulls the covers off famous people with syphilis. That's right: syphilis.

Dead Singers

Turning James Joyce into a Broadway musical

The Celebration and The Room

Two one-acts compare Pinter and the beginning and later stages of his career

Best Beat Era Evocation

City Lights

Musical Lit 101

Stuck in a rut with Geoffrey Chaucer & Co.

Dublin Fields

Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe knows his Mamet -- and his Martin Amis

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N., A Play for None and All

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At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

The Devil Gets His Due

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Finnegans Cake

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Tall Tales

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Cothran

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Dog Bites

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Night+Day

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Bowel Story

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The Professor of Punk

From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

Carey Nation

As ACT returns to its home at the restored Geary, Artistic Director Carey Perloff stages a coup de theatre for her fourth season