Lou Fancher, Author at 48 hills

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Theatre Bay Area

September 3, 2026

50-year-old arts org helps the local show scene survive and stay accessible—especially with Bay Area Theatre Week.

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Picks: Flower Piano

September 2, 2026

Planted among the gorgeous blooms of the Botanical Gardens, a dozen pianos tune players and listeners into instant community.

Art

Maren Hassinger’s evocative BAMPFA retrospective reaches up, up, up

August 27, 2026

From coiled hemp rope to wall of eye-popping pink plastic, the artist's community, colors, and contrasts are a buoying force.

Lit

Deep lessons from art and life in Dave Eggers’ ‘Contrapposto’

August 24, 2026

Local literary hero and trained artist's latest novel dives into a wide-ranging love story that shows a more mature side.

Lit

Subversive spirit matches Victorian romantic intrigue in Ayelet Waldman’s latest

August 7, 2026

Berkeley author knocked off from award-winning TV work to finish 'a failed novel I tried to write a decade ago.'

Music

E pluribus ants: At Cabrillo Music Fest, Sarah Hennies’ work buzzes with communal activity

July 28, 2026

Under expansive theme of US's 250th, composer's 'Grain House' considers the lowly but mighty insect.

Art

Mildred Howard writes her own history book

July 24, 2026

At Oakland Museum of California, the longtime artist's first major retrospective attacks Black erasure.

Lit

Andrew Sean Greer: ‘Everything’s terrifying to me—even buying a stick of gum’

July 19, 2026

When it comes to writing, the Pulitzer-winning author of hilarious new 'Villa Coco' knows to feel the fear and do it anyway.

Music

Cuban jazz legend Omar Sosa: ‘Everything started in San Francisco’

July 13, 2026

New Quarteto Americanos album 'We Are Not the Headliner' celebrates 'art as the reality of the community.'

Lit

New novel ‘Midnight, at the War’ grapples with journalistic truth after 9/11

June 23, 2026

Devi S. Laskar's latest sweeps its reporter-protagonist across the world and deep into thorny, resonant questions.

Lou Fancher