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A guide to San Francisco, giving a brief history of the city; descriptions of the major sights with their addresses, admission fees, and hours; and lists of special events, museums, and resturants of special interest to children.

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Gary Snyder
• Philip Whalen
• David Meltzer
• Michael McClure
• Brother Antoninus.

Separated from his family after the San Francisco earthquake, a young boy sharing the refugee-camp home of a Chinese family is compelled to re-examine his prejudices.

• Milk walk / Tim Blanchard
• Tragedy at City Hall / Michael Koch
• One more candle for Harvey Milk / Artful Goodtimes
• Snow (to H.M.) / Shirley Garzotto
• The flowered brocade of myth / Freddie Greenfield
• News of the day / Dennis Dunn
• Exorcism of the straight/man/demon / Aaron Shurin
• In our gentle uniqueness (for Harvey Milk) / David Emerson Smith
• Poem for someone else / Noni Howard
• In memoriam (for George Moscone and Harvey Milk) / Todd S.J. Lawson
• A little rights chant - I live in dreams / Dennis Ryan
• Night on Amoeba Mountain / Steve Abbott
• When they dropped the bomb on Castro Street / Frank Hoffman
• In memorium [sic] of Harvey Milk & Margaret Mead / David Moe
• Ritual (for Harvey Milk) / John S. Connolly III -- Red milk / Jack Hirchman -- Somebody's yelling Judy again / Mede
• Strange bells / Steve Benson -- From Artemis an oracle / The fag nun Assunta Femia

Rebecca Schwartz and her partner become caught up in a dangerous search for the killer of the owner of some prized sourdough starter, which also has disappeared

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: enabling fictions
• 1. The elegiac mode: rhetoric and poetics in the 1940s
• 2. 'The darkness surrounds us': participation and reflection among the beat writers
• 3. 'Spotting that design': incarnation and interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen
• 4. 'Cave of resemblances, cave of Rimes': tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan
• 5. The city redefined: community and dialogue in Jack Spicer
• 6. Appropriations: women and the San Francisco renaissance
• 7. Approaching the fin de siecle
• Notes
• Index.
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The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period in the San Francisco Bay area as defined by poets such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan and William Everson, and then as it blossomed into the literary excitements associated with the Beat movement and with writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Individual chapters are devoted to major writers of the period and to their involvement with social and political change during the Cold War era. Davidson's penultimate chapter deals with the largely neglected context of women writers during this period, and the final chapter deals with poetry since 1965.
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Gathers articles and stories about San Francisco by Tom Wolfe, Ishmael Reed, Hunter S. Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Mark Twain, and William Saroyan.
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• Babycakes
• Significant others
• Sure of you.

In Sharon McCone's 13th outing, the San Francisco P.I. investigates a famous society murder of the fifties, and her findings soon unnerve the city's uppercrust. Following the release of the woman convicted of a 1956 murder she claims she didn't commit, McCone discovers several suspicious people who don't want the case reopened.
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When Stratton Fields is approached by what he thinks are the powers of darkness, he skeptically accepts their help. To his amazement and growing horror, a bargain begun in frustration and distraction grows into an ordeal, as a cycle of violence draws ever closer to the people he loves.
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• Learning to love it
• To be eaten with a spoon
• A land of men & women too
• Citizen Mad Dog
• Zenobia
• The one you're with
• Song of the self-made
• Public anatomy.

• Indio / Al Lujan
• A kiss / Donna M. Lane
• A first kiss / Ian Signer
• PreDahmer / Trac Vu
• Notes from a cocoon / David Harrison
• No telling / Tede Matthews
• Coming out dream series / Indigo Chih-lien Som
• Yo Yo / Angela Garica
• Boston to New York: trees gone swamp / Tiffany M. Higgins
• Lucky in love / Mabel Maney
• Soup d'J-Yours / Maggy Merrick
• If you leave a woman flowers you'll probably scare her away / Michelletea
• Smothered with bother / Janell Moon
• Two freaks in a mean god's sweaty fist / Sparrow 13 laughing Wand
• Nightlight / Christian Huygen
• Angelina / Stephanie Rosebaum
• Survival / Donna M. Lane
• Brushes with barbers / Robin White
• The rescue / Lucy Jane Bledsoe
• First dive / Christy Shepard
• When the Eastern Goddess Of Light told PG&E to fuck off / Marci Blackman
• Our Lady Of Fresh Produce / Trebor Healey
• Early solstice (Diva in the dark) / Dawn of Aquarius
• Long lost love / Christine Beatty
• Breaking / Judith Fauconnier
• I'm a lot more stable than I used to be / Ali Liebegott
• Sex with the damned / Merle Tofer
• excerpt from 'Penetration shame two: history / Keith Hennessy
• Altitude / Michael Johnstone
• A prince of love in every way / Brian Bouldrey
• AIDS death #54,911 / Robert Kaplan
• Garden / Edward Wolf
• The only one in the room / Wayne T. Corbitt
• Erasing names / Suzanne Sherman
• The holy war / Nancy Boutilier
• Queer queer? Queer! / Timothy Buttercup
• When straight men touch / Lewis DeSimone
• August 31, 1986 / Richard Loranger
• Bussing / Elissa Perry
• An apocalyptic update on the coat of many colors / Horehound Stillpoint
• On a city bus / Jonathan Bracker
• The wind comes up at dawn / Toby Bielawski
• Do iguanas have forked tongues? / S. F. Jane
• My perfect androgyne / Trebor Healey --Mr. Larry, Hairdresser Extraordinaire of Mr. Larry's beauty boutique since 1962, asks "Whither gay lib?" / Alvin Orloff
• Stardust memories / Bambi Lake
• From Kite Hill we look down at the Castro / Simon Sheppard
• Let's kick Father Time in the ass / Marci Blackman
• Noches Frias ; Cold nights ; Dialectica del amor ; Dialectics of love / Francisco X. Alarcon.

Bestselling author Marcia Muller opens her 15th case for San Francisco investigator Sharon McCone in an unfamiliar setting. Fed up with her old employer, the private eye called "cool and brainy" by New York Times Book Review opens her own office. . . .
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In San Francisco, a dead man is found amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder. The police investigation uncovers a storm of emotion and conflict that surrounded the victim in the last months of his life. The prime murder suspect is a high-profile defense attorney--and the new lover of victim's estranged wife. Now, defense attorney becomes defendent in this riveting new courtroom drama from the author of the national bestseller Degree of Guilt.
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• My X story
• Sex life
• Missing
• Baby
• 2 pure girls
• Fetish.

This important collection of essays on the writers who have made Los Angeles one of the great cities of twentieth-century literature has been strengthened by the inclusion of three new essays. John Fante, Walter Mosley, and Chester Himes join such writers as Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Nathanael West, Norman Mailer, James M. Cain, Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Budd Schulberg, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, and Thomas Pynchon as well as less familiar writers such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Horace McCoy, Thomas Sanchez, Marc Norman, and Hysaye Yamamoto in a text that provides a basic literary history of the region. Essays examine such special Los Angeles genres as the detective story and the Hollywood novel, and a chapter is devoted to the film Chinatown.
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The highly acclaimed author of The Last Jews in Berlin now presents a frighteningly realistic, gripping novel about the transfer of Hong Kong's Triad underworld to America's West Coast as 1997 approaches--an ambitious international thriller that foreshadows tomorrow's headlines.
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Investigating a terrorist bombing at the Consulate of an Arab Emirate, Sharon McCone is thinking only of the million-dollar-reward--until she meets the consul general's granddaughter. When the girl disappears, Sharon risks everything to save her. From the bestselling author of Till the Butchers Cut Him Down.
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Michael Rumaker centers his memoir in 1957 San Francisco, where many fellow Black Mountain students are migrating since the close of the College. Allen Ginsberg, after the notorious readings of his poem HOWL in 1956, has departed for Tangier, but the young Beats are invading North Beach and a dope scene is blooming. The Place is where the poets and painters hang out and Jack Spicer directs the Blabbermouth nights. This is the summer of the famous HOWL trial where Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Shigeyoshi Murao, of City Lights, are prosecuted for selling Allen Ginsberg's book. Meanwhile the police are stepping up their hassling of hippies on upper Grant Avenue and arresting gays on Polk Street. Rumaker positions his in-depth, eloquent portrait of Robert Duncan against this turbulent city background, and contrasts Robert's open gay life as a poet with his own painful covert sexuality.
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• Dolores Street
• Wine country.
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By satirising the lesbian in her quest for love and identity, Theresa Carilli renders funny, moving and candid portraits of lesbian life. Two plays about lesbian culture in San Francisco.
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First in a new mystery series with an outrageously funny hook--a drag queen detective! Doan McCandler, San Francisco's best dressed detective, is a Sherlock Holmes in high heels. His stunning sidekick Binky is Watson with a waistline. Together, they make a killer ensemble of amateur sleuths so smart and sassy, readers will just die!

This is a portrait of the downfall of a slow-minded dentist and his avaricious wife, which embodies the author's powerful insights into the conflicting forces of heredity and social conditioning.
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It's been years since Stanley Ahearn lost interest in staying alive. Every Friday night, Stanley pays a visit to San Francisco's Tenderloin District, where pleasures are simple and cheap. One such night, he finds himself sharing an otherwise deserted bar with a green-eyed woman. Afterward, all he would remember was that right after she cried, they left the bar together. Three days later, Stanley wakes to find himself zipped into a sleeping bag, left for dead. He's missing a kidney. Just before he's expelled from hospital for having no insurance, a doctor kindly informs Stanley that there's something wrong - fatally wrong - with his remaining kidney. And Stanley Ahearn finds himself on the street with a new perspective. If he wants revenge, he has to find the woman with the green eyes. If he wants to live, he has to find himself a new kidney. Perhaps life and revenge are the same thing...?
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Jim Brogan's "A Time To Live" is as enjoyable as it is honest and wise. It's a 'must read' for the gay community because, finally, here is a book concerned with the problems of ageing, especially those of sex, affection, and grief in an AIDS-haunted San Francisco. The main character, Brian, becomes vastly richer through his need to accept the inevitabilities of maturing the 1990s ...as does the reader of this engrossing, well-told tale that dares embrace the intrigue of reality itself.
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From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a world disaster. It is due to occur on a bridge in San Francisco, now home to squatters, and is part of a rich man's bid for world domination.

Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffeeshop every morning, occasionally sees a few long-time men friends and vaguely regrets a handful of former women lovers. In the sixties and seventies, Shaper was where the action was, (San Francisco, where else?) and joined in the festivities, if moderately. But that was a long time ago. There are those who have drug flashbacks, even years after they've been using. Shaper has escaped those, thanks to his moderation. But into his relatively Spartan life now comes a flashback of another kind - a nineteen-year-old daughter whose existence he never suspected. Her mother was an overnight acquaintance whom with some effort he manages, barely, to recall. The daughter's name is Amanda, and her phone call sends Shaper's drab-gray existence into dazzling Technicolor. Amanda arrives trailing a motley band of associates: a con man who explains his activities on his gypsy heritage, except that he may not have one; his blatantly seductive daughter; Amanda's boyfriend, D'Wayne, a streetsmart and (usually) genial black giant. The con man owns what he has named The Yerba Buena Foundation, dedicated to helping businessmen relieve stress; his daughter - well, she runs the place, D'Wayne is the house's security man. Others turn up, segueing from various areas of Shaper's life. Amanda, part typical teenager, part young receptacle of ancient wisdom, is currently employed as a "therapist" at the Foundation. Shaper plunges into this personal mosh pit like a repentant sinner at a river baptism, the shock of his plunge awakening him to therealization that there's more in life than was dreamt of in his philosophy. Gold has been blessing readers with his contemplation of the human condition for many years. In this novel his lovely humor and deep understanding illuminates how a man walking a barren highway may react when fate suddenly shoves him onto an unpaved, rutted dirt road. .
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It's almost a tradition in the city room of "The Herald" for journalists to collapse at their desks, having worked, imbibed, and smoked themselves into the grave. On these occasions the behavior required by the dead man's erstwhile colleagues -- a group of cynical old news hounds with skin the color of faded newsprint-- is to applaud, simultaneously hailing their fallen comrade and signaling an opening in the city room. It is in this manner that William Colfax, an ambitious young reporter, earns a coveted position as a staff member of this long respected newspaper. Colfax accepts the offer mere minutes after his predecessor's body has been carted away. "The Last City Room" depicts the decline of an influential newspaper in San Francisco during the turbulent early 60s. As the conservatism of the old guard, led by "The Herald"'s publisher and his bylined minions, clashes with the radical leaders ascending to power in the city, Colfax quickly realizes that the golden days of "The Herald "are long over. With his past threatening to ensnare him between the two warring factions, Colfax's struggle quickly becomes one of not simply proving himself as a reporter, but of maintaining his independence and integrity as a journalist. "The Last City Room" is a provocative evocation of a time when the carefully modulated social fabric of the country was just beginning to show signs of uncertainty. It is a tribute to the end of a newspaper and the beginning of a new era. .
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McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague, his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the 'American Zola', and this is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. With its compelling portrayal of human nature at its most basic level, McTeague is a gripping and passionate tale of greed, degeneration and death. It is also one of the first major works of literature to set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed.
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