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3 October 2017 / SF News / Jay Barmann

Day Around The Bay: Neal Cassady Letter Finds Home

  • An 18-page letter from Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950 that was discovered in an Oakland home three years ago, which supposedly inspired Kerouac's soon-to-be adopted stream-of-consciousness style and which some thought could fetch $2M at auction, has been sold for one tenth of that price to a rare books library at Emory University. [Chronicle]
  • 20 Bay Area nurses are headed to Puerto Rico to offer medical aid. [Examiner]
  • Former interim homeless czar Sam Dodge is stepping down for a gig at Public Works. [Examiner]
  • Chronicle columnist Heather Knight reached out in search of Trump supporters in San Francisco. One of them was happy to give her name, and still says she supports the president. Several others left voicemails and sent emails but did not want to give their names. [Chronicle]
  • Driver crashes into Fairfield home, runs off. [CBS 5]
  • Potrero Hill man wakes up to home invasion robbery at gunpoint, thieves steal laptop and several guns. [Bay City News]
  • CHP arrests East Bay freeway shooting suspect from August 27 incident. [CBS 5]
  • More about San Jose native Michelle Vo who was killed in the Las Vegas shooting. [Chronicle]


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Jay Barmann

Jay Barmann

Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 20+ years.

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