I am a left coast native and writer; my working life began after studying at San Francisco State University; I have been an office worker and a labor organizer; longtime freelance writer covering books and labor and assorted cultural and political issues.
Learn about the poetry written on the barrack walls by Chinese immigrants confined on Angel Island, and read some of their words here.
She was demonized, her work was publicly burned, but Sappho's words live. Celebrate Sappho through her sapphic love poems to women.
These powerful LOVE MEDICINE quotes resonated with one reader and kept them returning to Louise Erdrich's work in search of meaning.
Thirty years ago, the publishing world learned an amazing fact: novels that focus on female relationships, may become instantaneous bestsellers ...
Enjoy these literary quotes about spring, exploring the other side of a murkier season along with a spring imagined as always bright, always sunny.
Thinking back on my slog through the Los Angeles Unified School District, there were a very few realities that kept ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
Usher in the new year with these quotes from literary icons.
When is winter here? We say to each other, year after year, “it’s too soon for winter,” grinning at the ...
On reading Tim O'Brien's classic novel THE THINGS THEY CARRIED to understand the American soldier in Vietnam.