This ran in the SF Bay Guardian last summer. I still don’t like those Arcadia books, but I got to talk about some cool lost history in this piece… Amid the pages of San Francisco’s Chinatown, a 2006 entry in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, is a 1968 photo from what we are told [...]
This piece came out this April, written ostensibly to celebrate the release of Chris Carlsson’s new book, Nowtopia. I read about 30 Utopian and Dystopian books for it — pretty fun. After the ruins SF’s pasts and futures — and Chris Carlsson’s Nowtopia In a journal entry dated December 27, 1835 from his 1840 book [...]
I’ll be going it alone in the PAC NW. Eugene never came through and I didn’t want to deal with the border, so here’s what we got… JUNE 26 PORTLAND, OR @ READING FRENZY JUNE 27 SEATTTLE, WA @ LEFT BANK BOOKS JUNE 28 OLYMPIA, WA @ OLYMPIA PUBLIC LIBRARY JUNE 29 SEATTLE @ ELLIOTT [...]
I’m excited to be heading out on tour for the book next week with Cindy Crabb. Cindy makes one of my all-time favorite zines, Doris. We were supposed to be going on tour in a veggie-oil-consuming monster truck, but, sadly — yet predictably, perhaps — it has ceased to run, so we’ll be using real [...]
Thanks to everyone who has come out to the huge events at Counterpulse, Modern Times, and Adobe Books! There are still a couple of local events left for the book and a ton of stuff coming up on the East Coast summer tour… BAY AREA EVENTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 4th 7:00 PM GET LOST TRAVEL BOOKS [...]
Thanks for checking out the site, which I hope will help get the word out about the book and also, as time goes by, serve as a repository for various pieces of new writing I’m working on. For now, the site includes info about my upcoming book tours and local events, info about the book, [...]