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Through hardship, a pastor encounters good people in ‘United States of Grace’

Emily Wilson - June 2, 2021

Lenny Duncan's 'Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope" isn't the usual redemption story.

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Black Freighter Press sails in, boosting writers of color and radical imagination

Alan Chazaro - April 14, 2021

The revolution will be published, with the help of SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Alie Jones' new outlet.

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Beyond Didion: Alta Journal’s monthly California Book Club expands Golden State canon

Jasmine Liu - March 15, 2021

'The idea is to fill in the textures and the flavors and the voices' of history and life in the West.

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All the yuks: A history of stand-up comedy traces the artform’s evolution

Joshua Rotter - March 14, 2021

Wayne Federman's 'The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle' pays special attention to Bay Area

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

48 Hills - March 14, 2021

Remembrances of the late literary lion from writers David Talbot, Tony Robles, and Eric Sneathen

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Books: ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’— everything we think about illegal drugs is wrong

Bruce Mirken - March 10, 2021

Carl L. Hart's book dismantles anti-drug propaganda, prodding an honest dialogue about prohibition and addiction.

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Books: Free City and the fight for community college education

Bill Shields - March 8, 2021

A comprehensive history tells the story of the struggle to preserve SF's City College -- and block the neo-liberal approach to education.

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Literary lion Ferlinghetti exits, but his community legacy roars on

Marke B. - February 23, 2021

Thoughts on Lawrence's passing—and how his heroic drive still resonates in SF, even now.

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Poem: Public Protective Equipment *

Randy Alfred - January 13, 2021

An exhortation in double dactyl form

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Books: ‘Pura Neta,’ the Mission, and the price of gentrification

Tim Redmond - December 18, 2020

An interview with author Benjamin Bac Sierra on his new and powerful novel.

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