SFist Reads

Oh, how we love the San Francisco Public Library. The online reserve system, the many convenient branches, and how cool is the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection (thanks for the tip, Dad!)? You can look at their collection online, or view it in person at the Main Library's San Francisco History Center. We love our library!

Know what SFist Eve doesn't love? Maureen Dowd's Are Men Necessary. SFist Rita lent Eve her copy, gleefully exclaiming "you'll hate it SO MUCH", and boy, was she right. Eve was feeling feverish with annoyance by page 8, and at page 26 told herself "if she quotes Craig Bierko one more time I'm shutting this f**king book and looking out the window the rest of the way home." At page 54, she got to keep that promise, and the Sunset never looked more lovely. Seriously, Dickie Roberts star Craig Bierko is your go-to for quotes on gender relations? GOD.

SFist Rita just finished The Woman At The Washington Zoo, a collection of essays by the late Marjorie Williams. Williams was noted for her insightful (and biting) profiles of Washington insiders and her newspaper columns about families and public life. Kind of like the good parts of Anna Quindlen and Maureen Dowd, minus the insipid mommy parts of AQ and the insipid Sex and the City parts of MoDo. Williams died of cancer in 2005, and the book also includes her writings about her illness too. The book is very sad (it was edited by her husband, Slate's Tim "Chatterbox" Noah) but in a really moving kind of way.

Image is, of course, Bierko!