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San Francisco Reader
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In case you missed it, we published six issues of San Francisco Reader during the first few years of the New Millenium. We had a nice little run, publishing some great Bay Area fiction, poetry, and essays while profiling and interviewing SF literary icons like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, devorah major, Herbert Gold, and Alejandro Murguia. In those six issues, we threw a light on some intriguing musical artists as well: Chuck Prophet, Noe Venable, Richard Buckner, Beulah, Oranger, and 20 Minute Loop, just to name a few. As it happens, we have extra copies of all six issues in the dungeon, er uh, basement of our World Headquarters in Petaluma. And since we're feeling a bit nostalgic (and we can use the cash), we've decided to bundle the magazines in a set and make them available to you for, let's say $9.95 (plus a bit of postage). That's a pretty good deal. To make this transaction a simple matter, buy the set by clicking the ubiquitous PayPal logo, which follows this paragraph. Thanks very much for supporting San Francisco Reader!
Still exhausted from producing the print edition of our eighth issue, we realized the website was looking a bit haggard. So here's the update ... Issue #8 is on the streets, out of our hair, into your living rooms, if you can find a copy. If you really, really, want to see a printed edition, just subscribe, for Christ's sake. (Jesus loves that turn of phrase, by the way.) Click the PayPal button below. The issue has a bit of a dark edge, despite the holiday trappings all around us. This, in our humble opinions, is our best ever issue, not to denigrate issues 1 through 7. It features interviews with poet Walker Brents, songwriter Sonny Smith, and painter Jonn Herschend. It includes a strange, sad, dark piece of fiction by Jack Pitts, and two wonderful longer poems by Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman. And have I mentioned Caitlin Van Dusen's piece on the giant rubber band ball? Not to be missed.
Issue #7 features an interview with writer Isabel Allende. Ms. Allende, the acclaimed author of House of the Spirits and Paula, was kind enough to spend time with us. Additionally, we were granted permission to run an excerpt from her new novel, Zorro. In her latest work, Ms. Allende, in glowing prose, provides all of the colorful background for the masked hero, which had been ommitted in countless films, comic books, and graphic novels.
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