Literature

The Mission and the revolution, as lived and told by Roberto Vargas

Barrio Bushido author Benjamin Bac Sierra reveals his code

Elizabeth Gilbert isn't as lame as you think

YEAR IN LIT: A small assortment of Bay Area book highlights from 2010

In praise of the art book during a Kindle era

WRITERS ISSUE: Bay Times "Straight Talk" columnist Nan Parks reviews the first book by the Onion's Jean Teasdale

WRITERS ISSUE: An excerpt from The International Homosexual Conspiracy

WRITERS ISSUE: Left in the Dark illuminates San Francisco's movie-going past

WRITERS ISSUE: Armistead Maupin catches us up on the girls in Mary Ann in Autumn

WRITERS ISSUE: Peter Plate's Elegy Written on a Crowded Street stares into the Market Street abyss

Simon Reynolds sounds off about the music of hauntology

Paco Ignacio Taibo II constructs a guide to corruption in Mexico City Noir

Author Kevin Starr sings the praises of the Golden Gate Bridge

The Bike Snob rides into town, swinging

Elif Batuman's Possessed charts a hidden map of Russia

Writer Yiyun Li explores the language of creation and the memory of violence

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