Lou Fancher, Author at 48 hills

Music

Nearing 80, singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn angles into mortality on ‘O Sun O Moon’

November 16, 2023

'The songs are written from the view of an old guy,' says the legendary Canadian musician. 'I invited people to notice.'

Art Review

Do Yayoi Kusama’s candy-colored creations transcend a problematic past?

November 13, 2023

Recently reported racist writings in the towering 94-year-old artist's past raised questions about her blockbuster SFMOMA show.

Lit

Been here, done gone: Arhoolie Records’ Chris Strachwitz snapped our musical heritage

November 7, 2023

Beyond his precious recordings, a new book celebrates the documentarian's photos of essential roots musicians

Music

Soul legend Valerie Simpson is making joyful noise for Glide’s Holiday Jam

November 1, 2023

This year's stellar music program celebrates Reverend Cecil Williams' 60th anniversary with the essential community org

Art

Come hang (art): 800-plus artists welcome you to 49th Open Studios

October 18, 2023

ArtSpan's annual event has emerged from the cave-like years of the pandemic as a vibrant, sparkling beast of creativity

Lit

Booker winner Anne Enright: ‘I don’t play hide-and-seek, I play hide-and-hide’

October 15, 2023

The Dublin author on new 'The Wren, The Wren,' which centers the women left behind by a garrulous poet

Lit

‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider does not want to be your favorite trans person on TV

September 29, 2023

On the eve of her appearance at Porchlight Storytelling's Litquake edition, the beloved game show guru and memoir author isn't holding back.

Lit

Litquake turns the page with a new leader, who tells us what to catch

September 22, 2023

Executive Director Norah Piehl on what it's like joining the sprawling literary extravaganza, and who's top of her reading list

Lit

Something rotten: Nazi-occupied Denmark through young eyes in Richard Kluger’s latest novel

September 19, 2023

Seasoned journalist explores a country's moral quandry via historical fiction of 'Hamlet's Children.'

Lit

Ann Patchett on new ‘Tom Lake’: ‘We experience love in different ways at different times in life’

September 13, 2023

The lauded author's 'pandemic novel' sequesters a family on a farm in Traverse City, MI—and was written on a treadmill

Lou Fancher