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Tag Archives: San Francisco
Review: Between Heaven and Hell by David Talbot
Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke (Chronicle Prism, 176 pp, $22.95, January 2020) David Talbot—journalist, popular historian, longtime San Francisco resident, and author of Season of the Witch—has written a surprisingly vulnerable, intimate, often funny and engaging … Continue reading
Loma Prieta Memory: Reading Pinter by Candlelight
(Note: I lived through Loma Prieta in 1989, which is now, incredibly, 30 years ago. The first section of this essay was written in 1999, on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake.) I’d been in San Francisco for a little over a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal, Writing
Tagged earthquake, Loma Prieta, personal essay, San Francisco
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Summer Has Started
It would have been Anthony Bourdain’s 63rd birthday today. Enjoy a listen to his inimitable voice. He manages to bring out the poetry in Waffle House. Today is a day to remember him with love. Today would have been Anthony … Continue reading
Summer/Winter Sale on Smashwords
It’s nearly the end of June, so I enrolled a few of my books in the annual Smashwords Summer/Winter sale! Although the “winter” part of the name refers to the Southern Hemisphere, it could also refer to summer in San … Continue reading
New Book on Preorder: Elsie Street
I have a new book coming out in September! It’s called Elsie Street and it’s a contemporary MM romance set in San Francisco. This is my third book, and although I have lived in S.F. since 1988, it’s the first … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, contemporary romance, dysfunctional romance, Elsie Street, Facebook, gay men, new release, preorder, San Francisco, Twitter
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Review: On the Move, A Life by Oliver Sacks
When I first got acquainted with the neurologist Oliver Sacks and his work, it was through Awakenings, both the book and the movie. I was a young woman then and Oliver Sacks was someone to look up to. He also … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Awakenings, cancer, gay men, healing, Jewish, LGBT, London, memoir, motorcycles, neurologist, New York, Oliver Sacks, On the Move, San Francisco, weightlifting
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Now on Pre-order: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Just a note to say that my 14,000 -word memoir, “It’s Not You, It’s Me,” is on pre-order right now at Amazon and will be released September 21! I wrote this memoir about two years after a devastating breakup with … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, breakups, Ireland, It's Not You It's Me, lesbian relationships, memoir, preorder, queer community, relationships, San Francisco
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HBO’s Looking
Originally posted on The Lone Writer: Shannon Yarbrough:
Did you watch the premiere of HBO’s new show, Looking, last night? If so, what did you think? I had high hopes for it only because there hasn’t been a good “gay…
Posted in Reviews, San Francisco
Tagged gay men, HBO, Looking, San Francisco, Shannon Yarbrough
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