Cathy Luchetti is the author of eight books about the settling of the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries, from religion to cooking and cuisine to courtship rituals and child-rearing. She was invited by Laura Bush to come to the White House to be
Read more →Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies, just slightly undercooked, so as to allow for that gooey element that soothes the belly and the psyche, whoopie pies, moist cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, cinnamon buns on a Sunday morning….I could go on and on. I love sweets and I can’t
Read more →By Zara Raab Photo credit: Nahoko Spiess Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley, and author of more than 80 articles in scientific journals, Edward Frenkel has published two monographs on his mathematical research, most recently Langlands Correspondence for Loop Groups, with Cambridge University Press. Professor Frenkel
Read more →By Phil Semler Nicole Krauss, the author of The History of Love, Man Walks Into a Room, and Great House was the keynote speaker at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s Bookfest 2012, Sunday, February 26, 2012. Addressing an adoring audience of 500 in Kanbar Hall, she gave a
Read more →Interviewed by Jamais Jochem Jamais Jochem: What was the inspiration for Mia? Bernard Leo Remakus: As a physician and medical journalist, I always try to look at things from as many different angles as possible. I try to find the little-known exception to a rule and
Read more →By Zara Raab << Read Part One This continues our interview with writer Philip Fradkin, whose extensive body of work is essential to understanding California and the American West. In Part I, archived below, Mr. Fradkin spoke about his upbringing in New Jersey, his father’s roots in
Read more →By Zara Raab Philip Fradkin’s extensive body of work is essential to understanding California and the American West. Over the past half century, he has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and thirteen books about the region, its natural and human histories, varied landscapes, and some of
Read more →This is the second part of a two-part Interview with the writer, translator and editor Stephen Kessler by Zara Raab. Read PART ONE. Stephen Kessler is the author of eight books of poetry, fourteen books of translation, as well as a novel, The Mental Traveler (2009) and
Read more →By Zara Raab Stephen Kessler is the author of eight books of poetry, fourteen books of translation, as well as a novel, The Mental Traveler (2009) and two books of essays, Moving Targets and The Tolstoy of the Zulus (El León Literary Arts, 2008, 2011, respectively). He
Read more →Jeanne Wagner has published three chapbooks and two full-length books, The Zen Piano Mover and In the Body of Our Lives, just out from Sixteen Rivers Press. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the 2004 Stevens Manuscript Prize (for The Zen Piano Mover),
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