Sunday, April 26, 2015

"The Wilder Shores of Love": Romance and exoticism, what did you expect?

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The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch My rating: 3 of 5 stars Believe it or not, I decided to read The Wilder Shores of Love becau...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Artists Are Members of a Privileged Class @ SF Theater Pub Blog

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I'm rereading Tom Stoppard's Travesties tonight (for a very cool reason which I am not yet at liberty to disclose) and I have to sa...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The House of Mitford and the House of Black

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As I mentioned, when I was up in Oregon last month, I holed up for several days at the Sylvia Beach Hotel. For my first four nights, I stay...
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Friday, March 6, 2015

Three Brief Reviews of Three Brief Books

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Hello! Apologies for my long absence. In mid-February, I was off the grid on a week-long vacation; and for the past two weeks, I've been...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Moved to Tears @ San Francisco Theater Pub Blog

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My latest Theater Pub column is about the works of art that make me cry -- something I don't think we talk about enough, in an era that...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

Miss Fisher and Miss Crewe

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In my most recent Theater Pub column , I wrote about some of the non-theater things that kept me sane/happy/entertained in January: the f.lu...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

"The Great Night" by Chris Adrian: San Francisco as Faerieland

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Five years ago, I got all excited when I heard that acclaimed novelist Chris Adrian was working on a book that imagined the faeries from A ...