Crossing. Ever been crossed by someone you thought could be trusted? Randomly crossed paths with an old lover while backpacking through Patagonia? Crossed a threshold, arriving at the other side with new insights? Crossed a metaphoric line that you never knew you had? Crossed over bodies of water or masses of land in unconventional...
Check out the very latest… Issue #4 Collected Interviews from the Blog! Our latest issue features interviews on creativity, persistence, your paleolithic brilliant birthright, and the importance of french presses, with artist and writers like Tomas Moniz, Ariel Gore, Inga Musico, Mike Sacks, Vanessa Davis, and more. If you’ve ever needed the inspiration...
We are so excited to be participating in the Word Up! Community Learning Fair in Petaluma on October 30th, especially since the brilliant Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, is going to be the keynote speaker! Here’s the details from the Word Up website: Free & Fun Word Up! Fair! Sunday, October 30,...
The music of singer-songwriter Emily Jane White is the stuff to serenade souls of tortured mystics with. Smoky, dark, ethereal, this small town girl turned internationally acclaimed songstress grapples with pain, sorrow and the meaning of it all in her bluesy, folksy and deeply poetic melodies. With her first album– Dark Undercoat– recorded in...
Evan Karp is steeped so deeply in the Bay Area literary scene, that its nothing short of a miracle that he had time for this interview! Until two years ago, Evan called Savannah, Georgia home and had never experienced the glory that is a spoken word event. Since landing in San Francisco, he has...
Inga Muscio‘s words found permanent residency in the hearts and minds of feminists everywhere with her debut book, Cunt. Cunt did more for the feminist movement than shout out a call to reclaim the word itself. Muscio offered an invitation for women to engage in radical self-love and self-knowing. Through her fearless and unapologetic...
A traveling and writing machine, Melinda Misuraca ties together whip smart anecdotes and vividly detailed prose for stories that readers want to step inside of. With her words appearing in such publications as Natural Bridge, The Best Travel Writing 2006, The Portland Review, Salon.com , Misuraca taught creative writing at New College of California...
An interview with author and writing teacher Sarah Stone in which she shares her own tips for creativity and developing a writing life.
My (Dani’s) introduction to Mike Sacks consisted of cyber-exchanging one another’s disturbing Cuddle Party articles. From there, the glory of his writing filled many sleepless nights with muffled outbursts of laughter which coincided with frequent suppression of the gag reflex, most recently a result of tearing through the pages of Sex: Our Bodies, Our...
The fact that Laine Justice creates her masterpieces of art with a series of paints and paint brushes– and not a magic wand– is utterly mind blowing, as is the patience and thoughtful time she carefully crafts each piece with. With an instinctual draw to the tender and delicate details of each character that...