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Franco family's 'Metamorphosis: Junior Year'

The result is "Metamorphosis: Junior Year," a novel released in October that combines prose with poetry, short chapters with big themes and mythology with modern-day teenage angst. It is a collaboration between mother and sons: Betsy wrote the text; ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Franco,  David Letterman

Painter Thomas Kinkade, in a wilder light

On Friday night, dozens of artists converged on a small underground gallery off a dark and narrow alley in the heart of North Beach. The gallery on Bannam Place - which for decades has drawn poets and painters and bootleggers - hosted a one-night show ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Kinkade,  Winston Smith

Author Ken Auletta goes to the heart of Google

"Microsoft had cold businessmen," he said. "They were out to kill the competition. You're not cold businessmen. You're cold engineers." So began the lively talk by Auletta, a New York power player, staff writer for the New Yorker, and author of 11 ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Ken Auletta,  Sergey Brin,  Larry Page

James Ellroy really loves his work

James Ellroy, the American crime writer known for his murdered mother, staccato sentences, alliterative profanity and outsize ego, was in San Francisco recently to sell what he describes as the "most dialectical, most spiritual, most profound book" of ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Ellroy,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Richard Nixon,  J. Edgar Hoover

Dr. Uwe Jacobs' torture survivor work honored

As clinical and executive director of Survivors International in San Francisco, Jacobs has provided therapeutic care to more than 1,000 people who have lived through torture. Last month, Jacobs was recognized as one of 10 extraordinary Americans by the ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Wood Johnson,  Ford Motor Company

Sara Paretsky's lucky 13: 'Hardball'

"It wasn't just implausible, it was offensive," said Paretsky. "The amount of sexually active, evil women in crime fiction exhausts you. You wonder how these women have the time and energy to seduce so many men while they're also at home doing the ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

'Art of Richard Mayhew' at MoAD

"I don't like characterizations too much," chuckled Mayhew, walking through a new show of his works at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. "But if anything, I guess I'm an improvisationalist. My painting has to do with that spontaneous ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jackson Pollock,  Willem de Kooning,  Franz Kline,  Romare Bearden,  Norman Lewis

'Keeping Score' returns to KQED

For the second season of "Keeping Score" - the Symphony's program providing classical music content to public television, radio and schools set to begin Thursday - Music Director Thomas selected a Frenchman, a Russian and an American. Their lives are ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Michael Tilson Thomas,  Dmitri Shostakovich,  Hector Berlioz,  Charles Ives,  Leonard Bernstein

'Graffiti Battle' to see which artist is best

Then there are the writers, those artists who have learned the tricks of the trade, picking up different nozzles for different effects, knowing to work fast on lettering so it doesn't drip and keeping the can upright while maintaining the same distance ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Doves (musician)

Litquake shakes up literary world in Bay Area

"So, the authors are going to do their readings from beds," gushed Nina Lesowitz, a Litquake organizer. "We'll have a DJ. And, we'll have - get this - a spanking room! There are chains and handcuffs on the walls. Spankings will be offered before and ...

From JULIAN GUTHRIE, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: James Patterson,  Dave Eggers,  Lit (musician)

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