Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Author Denis Johnson Dies At 67 Acclaimed fiction writer, poet, and playwright Denis Johnson, most famous for his short story collection Jesus' Son which was turned into a 1999 film of the same name, died Wednesday at the age
Arts & Entertainment Local Children's Author Behind <i>Mulan</i> Dead After Market St. Fall San Francisco children’s author Robert D. San Souci died at age 68 following a head injury from a fall on Market Street. He was found unresponsive in mid-December by friends with whom
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: John Ortved, Author of <em>The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History</em> Looking for a gift idea for the Simpsons fan in your life? Reporter John Ortved has written an unauthorized, uncensored history of the still popular, still witty, longest running prime time TV series
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: David Eagleman, Author of <i>Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives</i> Neuroscientist David Eagleman's new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a series of fictional explorations of the afterlife that range from downloading one's consciousness to a computer to meeting God (both
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Goes Back to His Journalistic Roots One of San Francisco's favorite writers in residence, Dave Eggers, was on KQED's "Forum" this morning discussing his new book Zeitoun. It's a non-fiction work, just out from McSweeney's press as of last
misc SFist Interview with Julia Angwin, Author of <i>Stealing MySpace</i> Wall Street Journal Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin recently took an investigative look at the back-stories of MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who prior to founding the social networking and glitter-gif
