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Literary Arts
Bringing Literature to Life
The official blurb for Zoetrope: All-Story, the literary quarterly published by Francis Ford Coppola, says the magazine is "inspired by the Coppola heritage of independence and creativity." Toss in Coppola's enthusiasm for the pleasures of the palate and you've set the scene for a typical literary evening at Café Niebaum-Coppola, the director's three-year-old wine bar and Italian café in North Beach. More
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Literary Arts
Inventing America
If you had a metaphorical paintbrush and a blank canvas and you were able to completely rewrite the past/present and future of America what would you do? In Zanesville, author Kris Saknussemm invents an America that is part comic book and part post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride. Our hero is Elijah Clearfather, an amnesiac with a convoluted and colorful past, attempting to put together his life -- jigsaw piece by jigsaw piece. More
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Hear the Next Generation Speak for Itself
You've seen the rest ... now see the best! The first, the foremost, the original teen poetry event is back -- the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry slam, the largest event of its kind, celebrates its sixth straight year. More
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Literary Arts
David Lipsky's Absolutely American
If America ever became subject to a military dictatorship, it just might end up looking a lot like its premier military academy, West Point. And that's not such a bad thing from David Lipsky's point of view. More
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Literary Arts
How the hell do you win a literary contest? All sorts of tips and tricks are out there if you know where to look. Crossing your fingers doesn't hurt, either.
I recently received a letter notifying me that the first chapter of my memoir-in-progress has been selected as a finalist for the New Letters Literary Award in creative nonfiction, a prestigious international writing competition. More
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How to Start A Writing Group
Hide your red pens and banish your adolescent phobias of public humiliation in English class. Here's how to conduct a writing group which will let you circulate your creative writing, offer and receive helpful feedback, and propel your development as a writer by exposing yourself to a variety of forms and styles. More
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Literary Arts
How to Start A Writing Group
Hide your red pens and banish your adolescent phobias of public humiliation in English class. Here's how to conduct a writing group which will let you circulate your creative writing, offer and receive helpful feedback, and propel your development as a writer by exposing yourself to a variety of forms and styles. More
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Literary Arts
Tobias Wolff's Old School
Tobias Wolff's new novel Old School brings us back to a time for which our nostalgia has already been canonized: 1960, the year of President Kennedy's election, complete with hawk-eyed matrons measuring the distance between slow-dancing teenagers. The setting is a New England boys' prep school, the kind that has hosted many a coming-of-age story, a time and a place rife with potential clichés. More
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Literary Arts
I was enjoying a double latté decaf at the newly opened Andalusia Café when Naser Al-mualla said, "We should have poetry here every week." "Naser," I said, "You already have a reading series at Notes From Underground." "Yes, but we need one here at Andalusia, too." Who am I to disagree with a hardworking entrepreneur who finds time to read the poet Rumi? More
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Literary Arts
San Francisco's Two Nations
Reading "Winners" by Eric B. Martin, I was reminded of the "two nations" speech vice presidential candidate John Edwards used to truck out during campaign stops. Edwards maintained that the country is losing its middle class and polarizing into two nations (you could say "under God" depending on your red or blue state tidings). In Martin's book, the two nations sit under the seven by seven square foot umbrella of San Francisco circa 1999. It was a time when Elvis Costello playing at the company Christmas party was de rigueur while the south and southeast sectors of the city buckled under gentrification. More
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