Poetry. John Mellor is a fisherman who owns his own boat. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, has spent his life fishing and boat owning and, somewhere along the way, writing poetry. He takes photographs too, companions to a visceral intensity...
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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. San Francisco Arts Commision award-winning poet Tony Robles focuses on a hunger strike held in April and May 2016 in protest of a number of local police killings. Robles also speaks of incarceration with a uni...
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Middle Eastern Studies. Edited by James Mitchell. Francesca Rosa's passing in October 2016 brought to an untimely end the career of one of the more remarkable and overtly political authors associate...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Blasphemy is holy—and exciting, outrageous literature in TREYF PESACH (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book "strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth." This colle...
Fiction. A collection of sly, seductive, stories that establish Schwarzenberger as a conjuror of the cautionary tale. These are portraits of guys we all know, for better or worse, the querulous and the quixotic, the angry and the hilarious, the resi...
Fiction. When an old flame from Eritrea shows up at Reporter Bill Haywood's door in San Francisco, he reluctantly agrees to let her stay with him. But there is no room in his life for a former paramour with a jealous husband. Haywood would prefer we...
Fiction. COME TO ME is a tale of a woman just sprung from prison who finds her way back to a once familiar San Francisco. Gina seeks out her old friend Francine whose rooming house is a refuge for women who are devotees of Santeria, the religion bro...
Poetry. San Francisco poet, literary critic, educator, librarian, blogger and longtime resident Robin Tremblay-McGaw presents a carefully crafted selection of poems which "discovers a contrapuntal history in the displacements of (gendered) language"...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Activism. Filipino Studies. "In poems and vignettes, Tony Robles has written the generational memory of San Francisco at the point where alienation, deportations, and technological invasions are gutt...
Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. This work of literary nonfiction takes place on the West Bank in the fall of 2003, when members of the non-violent direct action group, the International Solidarity Movement or ISM (of which the author wa...
Fiction. LGBT Studies. Sadie García Miller—bisexual Jewish Latina—turns the old gum-shoe trope on its head in FINDER OF LOST OBJECTS. From Dashiell Hammett to Marcia Muller to John Goins, Hara's Sadie is a welcome addition to a long line of unorthod...
Fiction. "A good mystery is a dialogue with a reader, a city, a certain time in history, an exploration of a people's attitude towards humanity, socialmores, the downtrodden, the vulnerable. Set in San Francisco, Goins' debut novel exhibits author's...
Fiction. LGBT Studies. This collection of stories by Robert Glück was originally published in 1982 in San Francisco by Four Seasons Foundation under the title ELEMENTS OF A COFFEE SERVICE."Bob's fiction is actually quite friendly yet he cuts it with...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Biography. California Interest. A breakthrough biography of San Francisco artist Eda Kavin by William Torphy vividly explores the life, politics, bound books and paintings of Eda Kavin, one of the great ladies of San Franci...
Fiction. "A splendid, rowdy romp in the netherworld of revolutionaries—the Rebel Girl, Big Bill Haywood, multitudes of rebels and victims—all seen through the eyes of recently murdered anarchist Carlo Tresca finding his way through the very rambunct...