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"content": "\u003cp>The literature of fear is not as hard to find as you might imagine. Literature itself began as a means of dealing with our fears of the unknown. Our first stories were those of gods and monsters, both with little regard for mere human lives. Henry James and Mary Shelley terrified us with literary classics. Stephen King has written his way to literary respectability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a visit to the book store might have you thinking that the horror genre is all vampires and serial killers, with gore and violence standing in lieu of character and insight. For those of us who enjoy the literature of fear, with a soupçon of the fantastic, there are still lots of great writers out there. Here’s a pocket guide to some first-rate literature with a macabre imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters.jpg\" alt=\"ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters\" width=\"307\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143923\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Nathan Ballingrud\u003cbr>\nSmall Beer Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>America is not a happy place, and nobody captures that with the precision of Nathan Ballingrud. He creates compelling characters that are often unpleasantly real. We are immersed in their lives and their very intense stories before they encounter the fantastic, and so deeply captivated that the strange is brushed aside — but not without consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine stories in \u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i> will draw you into the lives of the diminished and the decaying landscapes on the fringes of the American economy. “Wild Acre” explores the regret of those damaged by an experience they can neither admit nor explain. In the title story, an ex-con trying to re-connect with his now-teenage daughter finds something washed up on a beach that brings unfortunate emotions to the surface. Ballingrud’s bad father, unfaithful wife and surly teenager manage to be off-putting and poignant, and the fantastic notion in the title offers up a mystery that is disturbing without easy resolution. \u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i> is a collection of stories about real American lives in a monstrous world.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham-399x600.jpg\" alt=\"barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham-399x600.jpg 399w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Cobbler of Ridingham\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Jeffrey E. 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He has a great sense of humor and a generous heart, but when the darkness falls, it does so with a finality that is all the more chilling. Barlough is averse to violence in his novels, but not chills, and his ability to craft the latter without resorting to the former is spectacular.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters-388x600.jpg\" alt=\"beukes-broken_monsters\" width=\"388\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters-388x600.jpg 388w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Lauren Beukes\u003cbr>\nMulholland Books\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>On page one of Lauren Beukes’ \u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i>, Detroit detective Gabriella Versado finds a body that perfectly represents a new aesthetic of fear. It’s not particularly gory, it’s just – imaginative. Versado’s daughter, Layla, is spending her time with the monsters of the Internet, at a safe distance. She hopes. And Jonno the journalist, who is about half-a-step behind the profit barrier, is just looking for a great story to tell that goes beyond ruin porn. Beukes whips up a storm of smart, clipped prose, and introduces something we’ve never seen before, as effortlessly as she describes the vista of America’s new feudal wasteland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i> is part police procedural, part Internet procedural, a mediation on the power of storytelling, and a means, as the author told me when we spoke at KQED, of breaking through “issue fatigue.” Make no mistake, Beukes knows how to get under your skin. 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Michael Marshall begs to differ, and \u003ci>We Are Here\u003c/i> has at its core a vision of humans separated from themselves, each of us torn asunder and unable to know it. But Marshall tells his story with a skill that creates an almost unbearable amount of philosophical tension, in essence, an existential stalker myth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We first meet David, a writer whose novel is about to be published and who is somehow at loose ends. On his way home from a meeting, a man steps up to him and whispers, “Remember me.” Kristina and John are trying to help a friend of Kristina’s who believes herself to be the victim of a stalker, if only it were that simple. Marshall is a master at crafting the surreal into suspense. He also manages to come up with an original idea, almost unthinkable in a sea of vampire sequels. One of his previous novels, \u003ci>The Intruders\u003c/i>, has been made into a TV series for BBC America. Watch at your own risk.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/nevill-last_days.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/nevill-last_days-388x600.jpg\" alt=\"nevill-last_days\" width=\"388\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143932\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Last Days\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Adam Nevill\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nSt. Martin’s Griffin\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Kyle Freeman is an indie filmmaker on his last legs, looking to make a breakthrough, and pay his bills, with \u003ci>The Temple of Last Days\u003c/i>, a documentary about a cult that self-destructed in the Arizona desert in 1975. This proves to be a bad idea for Kyle, but a truly terrorizing experience for readers of Adam Nevill’s \u003ci>Last Days\u003c/i>. If you’re looking for a big, beefy horror novel that is consummately well written and extremely creepy, look no further; \u003ci>Last Days\u003c/i> will keep you awake through the night reading, and then for many thereafter, remembering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kyle investigates the origins of the cult, he finds it reaches farther into the past than he imagined. But when he talks to survivors of that night, his life takes a turn for the worse as he begins to experience nights even less restful than readers can expect.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/oliver-flowers_of_the_sea.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/oliver-flowers_of_the_sea.jpg\" alt=\"oliver-flowers_of_the_sea\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143933\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Flowers from the Sea\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Reggie Oliver\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nTartarus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Quiet is a word to remember when reading Reggie Oliver. He’s subtle and classy, crafting intelligent ghost stories and hauntings with a unique literary feel. His latest book is \u003ci>Flowers from the Sea\u003c/i>, with two novellas and six stories that show just how versatile and classy horror literature can be. “A Child’s Problem” takes as its inspiration a painting by Richard Dadd, who was condemned to imprisonment in the Bedlam insane asylum in 1843 after murdering his father with a razor. Later in the asylum at Broadmoor, he created the image of a very young boy reaching towards a chessboard. Oliver’s imagination of the story behind the painting manages to live up to the reality, and then sidesteps quietly past it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lord of the Fleas” studies a sinister 18th-century architect through documents that include an unpublished fragment of Boswell’s \u003ci>The Life of Dr. Johnson\u003c/i>. Oliver has a talent for entertaining his readers with subtle chills illustrated with his own hand-crafted, very fine line drawings at the top of each story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/rockhill_showers-dreams_of_shadow_and_smoke.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/rockhill_showers-dreams_of_shadow_and_smoke.jpg\" alt=\"rockhill_showers-dreams_of_shadow_and_smoke\" width=\"382\" height=\"578\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143934\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Stories for J.S. Le Fanu\u003c/i>\u003cbr>Jim Rockhill and Brian Showers, Editors\u003cbr>\nThe Swan River Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) is not as well known as he should be, given the influence of his work, including James Joyce, Henry James and every vampire novel ever written. \u003ci>Carmilla\u003c/i>, one of his signature works, was the vampire novel that preceded \u003ci>Dracula\u003c/i> by twenty-six years. Jim Rockhill and Brian Showers have brought readers ten stories that speak to the legacy of Le Fanu, and some quite directly; contributors Emma Darwin and Sarah Le Fanu are both related. But this collection is not about legacy, it’s about literature, and the power of fantastic stories to keep readers engaged over centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Valentine’s “Seaweed Tea” riffs on Le Fanu’s famous story “Green Tea,” effectively creating a feeling of dank decay. Brian J. Showers’ “Some Houses – A Rumination” imagines the scruffy house that never gets better, and a reason why, with a delightful and disturbing disintegration between the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction. Peter Bell’s “Princess of the Highway” evokes the forlorn and reckless with elegant prose. Showers is the publisher of Swan River Press, and he crafts a beautiful book every time. \u003ci>Dreams of Shadow and Smoke\u003c/i> offers readers modern stories with the feel of Victorian hearth.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/salzman-darkscapes.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/salzman-darkscapes.jpg\" alt=\"salzman-darkscapes\" width=\"400\" height=\"588\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143935\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Darkscapes\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Anne Sylvie Salzman translated by William Charlton\u003cbr>Tartarus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The work on display in \u003ci>Darkscapes\u003c/i> offers a literary taste of madness, an intense inversion of reason that is powerful, sometimes unknowable, and almost always unforgettable. Salzman is the perfect 21st-century bride for Edgar Allen Poe. Those of us who think the work of Salvador Dali is frightening as well as beautiful will find much to like here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is divided into four sections; “Lost Girls,” “Crucifixions,” “The Story of Margaret” and “Wildlife.” The titles are pertinent, if sometimes a bit oblique. They suggest and enhance the stories within, but don’t confine them. Once you dig into this collection it becomes clear that Salzman is not a writer who can be confined. Three of the sections contain outstanding narratives that veer from traveling circus stories to flat out nightmares.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch-383x600.jpg\" alt=\"schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch\" width=\"383\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch-383x600.jpg 383w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Transfiguration of Mister Punch\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Charles Schneider, D. P. Watt and Cate Gardner\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nEgaeus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Theme anthologies are a staple of genre fiction, but \u003ci>The Transfiguration of Mister Punch\u003c/i> is light years beyond such a mundane appellation. The publisher considers it a triptych, and that seems so much better, more appropriate for this dark wonder of written depravity and art. The entire volume needs to be considered, as Egaeus has gone to some trouble to offer readers a work that seems torn from another reality, one much less friendly to the humans who will enjoy this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Packed with photos and line illustrations, \u003ci>The Transfiguration of Mister Punch\u003c/i> is a beautiful but disturbing book. Charles Schneider’s “The Show That Must Never Die” starts with a rather unhinged narrator, apparently overcome by his research into the origins of the Punch and Judy figures. What follows is a masterful exploration of voice and history. D. P. Watt takes a perhaps more traditional narrative strategy in “Memorabilia.” It’s a very traditional frame story, with a collector speaking to a client buying a collection of Punch and Judy items. There are four stories in the single story, each one wonderful in itself, the sum of them rather more so. The final story in the book, “This Foolish & Harmful Delight” by Cate Gardner manages the unique feat of being by far the most outrageously gory and distressing story in the book, while, oddly enough, having the most traditional narrative. Mr. Punch is in hell and he escapes. But what a hell – and what an escape! Given the content and design, the book is nearly totemic in its effect. Leave it out for your friends to see and watch it bring a chill to their world and yours.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/slatter-the_bitterwood_bible.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/slatter-the_bitterwood_bible.jpg\" alt=\"slatter-the_bitterwood_bible\" width=\"399\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143937\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Angela Slatter\u003cbr>Tartarus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, what we now call “fairy tales” were the original horror stories. Angela Slatter’s \u003ci>The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings\u003c/i> takes its cue from the Brothers Grimm, but builds on that foundation to create a collection of stories that reveals itself to be a novel. She knows how to craft magic on the page and brings it to life in tale after gloriously written tale. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories take place in the environs of Lodellan, a sort of medieval world where magic works, supernatural beings interfere in everyday life and all-too-real men and women find themselves forced to compromise and face those compromises. Every story is nothing short of amazing, from the opening tale of “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” (forced to work with unhelpful shade of her father yelling at her) to “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls,” an academy that teaches the fine art of murder for vengeful teen angels. Slatter’s prose is often magnificent, and she’s able to craft characters as great as the powers they wield. Here you find beauty and terror in a marriage made in prose heaven.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/vollman-last-stories-and-other-stories.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/vollman-last-stories-and-other-stories-395x600.jpg\" alt=\"vollman-last-stories-and-other-stories\" width=\"395\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143938\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/vollman-last-stories-and-other-stories-395x600.jpg 395w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/vollman-last-stories-and-other-stories.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Last Stories and Other Stories\u003c/i>\u003cbr>William T. Vollmann\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nViking Adult\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>William T. Vollmann won a National Book Award for his novel \u003ci>Europe Central\u003c/i>, and he brings a similar sensibility to his collection of stories inspired by the work of classic horror writers including Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson and H. P. Lovecraft. Not surprisingly, he goes further afield as well, from the recent Bosnian Wars to modern-day America. \u003ci>Last Stories and Other Stories\u003c/i> is an ambitious exploration of the afterlife in all its various shades. Each story brings in as much non-fiction background research as it does imagination. The combination is exquisite, intricate and engrossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Treasure of Jovo Cirtovich,” which takes place in eighteenth century Trieste, is an epic fantasy of cursed inheritance. Sturdy guardsmen transform themselves into flesh eating ghouls, the ghosts and vampires of Mexico haunt artists and writers, the stories and fragments weave in and out of reality and history. This is a powerful collection that takes death as its subject and treats it with the respect and imagination it deserves.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>While there is nothing wrong with a lot of the popular horror overflowing the bookshelves and screens large and small, these books suggest that great horror literature might actually be the rule rather than the exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The literature of fear is not as hard to find as you might imagine. Literature itself began as a means of dealing with our fears of the unknown. Our first stories were those of gods and monsters, both with little regard for mere human lives. Henry James and Mary Shelley terrified us with literary classics. Stephen King has written his way to literary respectability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a visit to the book store might have you thinking that the horror genre is all vampires and serial killers, with gore and violence standing in lieu of character and insight. For those of us who enjoy the literature of fear, with a soupçon of the fantastic, there are still lots of great writers out there. Here’s a pocket guide to some first-rate literature with a macabre imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters.jpg\" alt=\"ballingrud-north_american_lake_monsters\" width=\"307\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143923\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Nathan Ballingrud\u003cbr>\nSmall Beer Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>America is not a happy place, and nobody captures that with the precision of Nathan Ballingrud. He creates compelling characters that are often unpleasantly real. We are immersed in their lives and their very intense stories before they encounter the fantastic, and so deeply captivated that the strange is brushed aside — but not without consequence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine stories in \u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i> will draw you into the lives of the diminished and the decaying landscapes on the fringes of the American economy. “Wild Acre” explores the regret of those damaged by an experience they can neither admit nor explain. In the title story, an ex-con trying to re-connect with his now-teenage daughter finds something washed up on a beach that brings unfortunate emotions to the surface. Ballingrud’s bad father, unfaithful wife and surly teenager manage to be off-putting and poignant, and the fantastic notion in the title offers up a mystery that is disturbing without easy resolution. \u003ci>North American Lake Monsters\u003c/i> is a collection of stories about real American lives in a monstrous world.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham-399x600.jpg\" alt=\"barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143924\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham-399x600.jpg 399w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/barlough-the_cobbler_of_ridingham.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Cobbler of Ridingham\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Jeffrey E. Barlough\u003cbr>\nGresham & Doyle\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It’s easy to forget, or just overlook, that Charles Dickens invented the modern ghost story with \u003ci>A Christmas Carol\u003c/i>. Jeffrey E. Barlough has managed the very difficult feat of innovating fiction with the feel of Dickens without resorting to imitation of any kind. In his \u003ci>Western Lights\u003c/i> novels, Barlough has created a sort of alternate American history, and with consummate literary scholarship, crafted stories that combine charming characters with deeply chilling experiences. His latest novel, \u003ci>The Cobbler of Ridingham\u003c/i> is a mystery notable for characters that you will absolutely love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hathaway is visiting friends at Haigh Hall, on the edge of the marshes of Fenshire, just outside of Ridingham. There’s a curse, and something behind the curse that is as dark as the ages. Barlough’s work is simply and utterly unique, not easy to find, but not to be missed. He has a great sense of humor and a generous heart, but when the darkness falls, it does so with a finality that is all the more chilling. Barlough is averse to violence in his novels, but not chills, and his ability to craft the latter without resorting to the former is spectacular.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters-388x600.jpg\" alt=\"beukes-broken_monsters\" width=\"388\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143925\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters-388x600.jpg 388w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/beukes-broken_monsters.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Lauren Beukes\u003cbr>\nMulholland Books\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>On page one of Lauren Beukes’ \u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i>, Detroit detective Gabriella Versado finds a body that perfectly represents a new aesthetic of fear. It’s not particularly gory, it’s just – imaginative. Versado’s daughter, Layla, is spending her time with the monsters of the Internet, at a safe distance. She hopes. And Jonno the journalist, who is about half-a-step behind the profit barrier, is just looking for a great story to tell that goes beyond ruin porn. Beukes whips up a storm of smart, clipped prose, and introduces something we’ve never seen before, as effortlessly as she describes the vista of America’s new feudal wasteland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i> is part police procedural, part Internet procedural, a mediation on the power of storytelling, and a means, as the author told me when we spoke at KQED, of breaking through “issue fatigue.” Make no mistake, Beukes knows how to get under your skin. It takes imagination, not surgical diagrams, and she’s adept at delivering monsters on every scale, as well as kick-ass women. \u003ci>Broken Monsters\u003c/i> manages the neat trick of being about art while also being art.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ligotti-the_conspiracy_against_the_human_race.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ligotti-the_conspiracy_against_the_human_race.jpg\" alt=\"ligotti-the_conspiracy_against_the_human_race\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143926\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Thomas Ligotti\u003cbr>\nHippocampus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>If you think horror is confined to short stories and novels, here’s a book to prove you wrong. In fact, the concept of wrong is very much at the heart of this work. \u003ci>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race\u003c/i> is certainly not fiction, not literary criticism, nor is it philosophy, though it partakes of all of these. Thomas Ligotti is best known for his short stories, and those who want to experience truly literary horror are directed to \u003ci>Songs of a Dead Dreamer\u003c/i> and \u003ci>The Nightmare Factory\u003c/i>. The stories you’ll find there are largely violence-free, suffused with surrealistic imagery and written in lyrical prose so lovely you’ll want to read it aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this book… this book is the heart of darkness, a frank and unrelenting examination of just how damn hard it is to be a conscious, living human being. Everything we are is so easily turned against us, and Ligotti, drawing on personalities as diverse as Arthur Schopenhauer, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Joseph Conrad and Anne Radcliffe uses all his prose gifts to craft a perspective that is so dark and pessimistic that life itself seems to have passed us by without our noticing. Some have noticed; the TV series \u003ci>True Detective\u003c/i> seems to have read Ligotti a little too closely. But don’t let that scare you away. Turn the pages of this book at your own risk; no matter how bright the sun, you may never see the light of day again.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/marshall-we_are_here.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/marshall-we_are_here.jpg\" alt=\"marshall-we_are_here\" width=\"381\" height=\"590\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143928\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>We Are Here\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Michael Marshall\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nMulholland Books\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Who are all those strangers on the street? How can they be here with us and yet not be known to us? We’re surrounded by the human race, and in theory, that should mean we always have company and comfort. Michael Marshall begs to differ, and \u003ci>We Are Here\u003c/i> has at its core a vision of humans separated from themselves, each of us torn asunder and unable to know it. But Marshall tells his story with a skill that creates an almost unbearable amount of philosophical tension, in essence, an existential stalker myth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We first meet David, a writer whose novel is about to be published and who is somehow at loose ends. On his way home from a meeting, a man steps up to him and whispers, “Remember me.” Kristina and John are trying to help a friend of Kristina’s who believes herself to be the victim of a stalker, if only it were that simple. Marshall is a master at crafting the surreal into suspense. He also manages to come up with an original idea, almost unthinkable in a sea of vampire sequels. One of his previous novels, \u003ci>The Intruders\u003c/i>, has been made into a TV series for BBC America. 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But when he talks to survivors of that night, his life takes a turn for the worse as he begins to experience nights even less restful than readers can expect.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/oliver-flowers_of_the_sea.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/oliver-flowers_of_the_sea.jpg\" alt=\"oliver-flowers_of_the_sea\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143933\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>Flowers from the Sea\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Reggie Oliver\u003cbr> \u003cbr>\nTartarus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Quiet is a word to remember when reading Reggie Oliver. He’s subtle and classy, crafting intelligent ghost stories and hauntings with a unique literary feel. His latest book is \u003ci>Flowers from the Sea\u003c/i>, with two novellas and six stories that show just how versatile and classy horror literature can be. “A Child’s Problem” takes as its inspiration a painting by Richard Dadd, who was condemned to imprisonment in the Bedlam insane asylum in 1843 after murdering his father with a razor. Later in the asylum at Broadmoor, he created the image of a very young boy reaching towards a chessboard. Oliver’s imagination of the story behind the painting manages to live up to the reality, and then sidesteps quietly past it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lord of the Fleas” studies a sinister 18th-century architect through documents that include an unpublished fragment of Boswell’s \u003ci>The Life of Dr. Johnson\u003c/i>. 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Three of the sections contain outstanding narratives that veer from traveling circus stories to flat out nightmares.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch-383x600.jpg\" alt=\"schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch\" width=\"383\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10143936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch-383x600.jpg 383w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/schneider_watt_gardner-the_transfiguration_of_misster_punch.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Transfiguration of Mister Punch\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Charles Schneider, D. 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Watt takes a perhaps more traditional narrative strategy in “Memorabilia.” It’s a very traditional frame story, with a collector speaking to a client buying a collection of Punch and Judy items. There are four stories in the single story, each one wonderful in itself, the sum of them rather more so. The final story in the book, “This Foolish & Harmful Delight” by Cate Gardner manages the unique feat of being by far the most outrageously gory and distressing story in the book, while, oddly enough, having the most traditional narrative. Mr. Punch is in hell and he escapes. But what a hell – and what an escape! Given the content and design, the book is nearly totemic in its effect. Leave it out for your friends to see and watch it bring a chill to their world and yours.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/slatter-the_bitterwood_bible.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/slatter-the_bitterwood_bible.jpg\" alt=\"slatter-the_bitterwood_bible\" width=\"399\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10143937\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch4>\u003ci>The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings\u003c/i>\u003cbr>By Angela Slatter\u003cbr>Tartarus Press\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Once upon a time, what we now call “fairy tales” were the original horror stories. Angela Slatter’s \u003ci>The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings\u003c/i> takes its cue from the Brothers Grimm, but builds on that foundation to create a collection of stories that reveals itself to be a novel. 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"content": "\u003cp>Have you ever hated a book that kept you awake all night? Has a book you didn’t enjoy ever brought you to tears? An author’s job is to make you cry, make you laugh, and make you late for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An article published last year in \u003ci>Science\u003c/i> presented evidence that literary fiction makes readers more empathic than popular fiction; that is, it claims LitFic is better for you than mystery, romance, thrillers, or science fiction. The paper, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/04/229190837/want-to-read-others-thoughts-try-reading-literary-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind\u003c/a>,” reported results from psychology researchers \u003ca href=\"http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=16180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emanuele Castano\u003c/a> and David Kidd of New York’s New School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper caused such a clamor among the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/litquake-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Litquake committee\u003c/a>, the people who produce San Francisco’s week-long literary festival — a group with passion for all types and genres of written, spoken, sung, and even bad literature (c.f., Litquake’s first anthology, \u003ca href=\"http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399168888?aff=litquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Drivel\u003c/i>\u003c/a>) — that I decided to make it the topic of this year’s science and literature panel. I’ve assembled a research psychologist, the program director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, authors of LitFic, romance, and mystery. I’ll moderate and represent science fiction. And you? You’ll ask questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143656\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ransomstephens.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ransomstephens.jpg\" alt=\"Ransom Stephens\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143656\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ransomstephens.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/ransomstephens-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ransom Stephens\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My aim here isn’t merely to convince you to mark your calendar; it’s to prepare you to participate in Litquake’s \u003cb>Does Literature Make You an Empath?\u003c/b> event next Tuesday at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s go back to the title of the article, “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.” The “theory of mind” is the basis for how we experience empathy. Our psychologist, \u003ca href=\"http://scholar.berkeley.edu/carenwalker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caren Walker\u003c/a>, points out that it really is a theory. She says, “Knowledge captured in a theory of mind is like any intuitive theory: a set of coherent, abstract causal representations that allow us to make predictions about the world.” I think it should be called “your theory of other minds” because it represents your unique concept of how other people think and experience feelings, sensations, urges, and appetites. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oxford English Dictionary has an uncharacteristically short but wonderfully arcane definition of empathy: “The power of projecting one’s personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation.” When you read a novel, you create your own version of the author’s fictitious reality. As you visualize a setting, your visual processing centers light up in a way similar to how they would if you were actually there. In other words, novels preceded Oculus Rift as virtual reality equipment by about 500 years. When a novelist does a good job portraying a character in a rose garden, you’ll catch a hint of the scent; an act of fictitious injustice makes you feel outrage; a good sex scene perks you right up, as it were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how does reading fiction improve our ability to empathize? The Greater Good Science Center’s \u003ca href=\"http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/author/jason_marsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Marsh\u003c/a> says, “Fiction writers deliberately encourage us to see the world through someone else’s point of view, or experience characters’ emotions in a visceral way — and that’s the essence of empathy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bestselling romance author \u003ca href=\"http://www.julieannelong.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Anne Long\u003c/a> says, “I do my best to inhabit every character — see through their eyes, feel everything that they’re feeling, translate that into just the right words. And if I do it right, readers are already living my story and invested in the outcome before they’ve reached chapter two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But does LitFic work better than romance? Critically acclaimed novelist \u003ca href=\"http://www.elizabethrosner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Rosner\u003c/a>, author of just-released \u003ci>Electric City\u003c/i>, says, “Literary fiction is much more often character-driven than plot-driven. Writers and readers of literary fiction are more likely to be asking why a character is behaving or thinking or feeling a certain way. In romance or thriller or sci-fi books, there is more emphasis on what and how.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Readers of \u003ca href=\"http://www.carablack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cara Black\u003c/a>’s Aimée LeDuc Parisian mystery series, make their empathy clear: “Readers ask: when will she find the right guy? Won’t she settle down and find happiness with someone? Once at a reading, a woman got down on her knees and begged me to let Aimée hook up with Mr. Right. She spoke as if Aimée was her girlfriend who needed an ‘intervention’. I think they also see themselves in Aimee — it’s a universal thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Licensed therapist and author of \u003ci>Don’t Try to Find Me\u003c/i>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/hollybrownauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holly Brown\u003c/a> says, “A lot of the suspense in my novels derives from the fear, love, and anger that the characters don’t want to admit that they feel. So the reader knows things about the characters that they don’t yet know about themselves, and the reader is saying, ‘No, don’t open that door! Don’t make that choice!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ci>The Sensory Deception\u003c/i>, I use the theory of mind to generate empathy by putting my readers in the first person perspective of endangered animals. Not coincidentally, my characters develop immersive virtual reality technology and use the same trick to alter people’s politics and recruit activists (trouble ensues).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the statement: “I know how you feel.” While separate, our models of the world have to be similar enough for us to agree on pretty much all factual information. Red is red, after all. Maybe what you and I perceive differs, still we agree it’s red. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But feelings? Theory of mind is a form of internal mimicry that begets empathy and empathy is all-powerful in culture, art, and, ultimately, morality. The sensory excitations we experience from stories, music, paintings, even architecture and engineering, can resonate in our minds in such a way that we respond with visceral intimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s your homework assignment, due on October 14, 2014: When you read, not just fiction, but news, essays, and biography, even Facebook and Twitter posts, pay attention to your emotions. When something makes you angry, surprised, or frightened, try to figure out where those emotions came from. Do you remember the experiences that, in the words of the OED, empowered you to project your personality into that which you are contemplating? Can you see how your empathy varies with different types of media? Can you isolate what the author did to you — because it was personal!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Litquake’s \u003cb>Does Literature Make You an Empath?\u003c/b> panel is Tuesday, Oct. 14, 6:30pm at the Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"event-info alignright\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/the-do-list/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/thedolist_icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/events/pick/litquake-2014/\">Event Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>Litquake 2014\u003c/h4>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-desc\">Massive celebration of writing.\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-dates\">\n\u003ch4>Oct. 10-18, 2014\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"event-venue\">Various Venues\u003c/div>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/events/pick/litquake-2014/\">Details and tickets\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s surprising to think that \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Litquake,\u003c/a> the Bay Area’s now-venerable annual celebration of literature, began as a do-it-yourself affair. When founders Jack Boulware and Jane Ganahl started the festival \u003ca href=\"http://maryjournal.org/boulware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in 1999\u003c/a> — it was originally called Litstock and lasted only a day — there was barely a scene of budding writers, and careers in writing came in many (often suspect) forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’d meet people at parties and they’d say ‘Oh I’m a writer,’ and I remember asking this one woman, ‘Well what do you write?’ She says, ‘Right now? I write for Pampers.com,’ Boulware told \u003ca href=\"http://maryjournal.org/contents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>MARY: A Journal of New Writing\u003c/i>\u003c/a> early this year. “Clearly those were the options people were considering if they wanted to be a writer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward 15 years and the festival has expanded from one day to over a week, with each day packed with events ranging from readings to lunches with famous authors to \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/event-series/kidquake-and-teenquake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing workshops for kids.\u003c/a> Also, the events are no longer limited to San Francisco — several Litquake readings now occur in \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/event-series/litquake-san-rafael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Rafael\u003c/a> — and \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/event-series/lit-crawl-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lit Crawl\u003c/a>, the festival-sponsored pub crawl with readings, is held in places as far away as Manhattan, Miami and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143580\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/mommy-lit-during-lit-crawl-2007_credit-shelly-eadescrop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/mommy-lit-during-lit-crawl-2007_credit-shelly-eadescrop.jpg\" alt=\"An evening of Mommy Lit during Litquake's Lit Crawl held in San Francisco's Mission District. Photo by Shelley Eades\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/mommy-lit-during-lit-crawl-2007_credit-shelly-eadescrop.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/mommy-lit-during-lit-crawl-2007_credit-shelly-eadescrop-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An evening of Mommy Lit during Litquake’s Lit Crawl held in San Francisco’s Mission District. Photo by Shelley Eades\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year the festival reaches a serious milestone: its 15th anniversary. In true Litquake tradition, its founders are celebrating by not only throwing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/viva-fifteen-litquakes-quinceanera-15th-anniversary-bash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quinceañera,\u003c/a> but are publishing the first Litquake-related book, \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/drivel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors,\u003c/i>\u003c/a> which is a collection of awful writing from notable writers such as Mary Roach, Dave Eggers and Chuck Palahniuk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such a big celebration coming up and so many years of doing Litquake under his belt, we begged Boulware to answer some questions we had about the festival and luckily he had a little free time to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve been doing Litquake for 15 years – has it gotten any easier?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of it gets easier, because we learn more shortcuts over the years. But as the festival and organization keep growing, some of it just takes more time and care and feeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some favorite memories of past Litquakes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides all of the fantastic readings, even hearing an author read that single sentence that could send sparks through your brain? There’s been plenty of crazy things. The first year of Lit Crawl, an unnamed Valencia St. bar refused to turn down their music, so we all filed outside with a chair, and started the readings right on the sidewalk, in front of a janitorial supply store. Authors stood on the chair and read their work, people were clustered around holding beers, cars were driving by and honking their horns. It was really raw and authentic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\" alt=\"The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside a Mission district bar because employees wouldn't turn the televisions off. Courtesy of Litquake\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop-400x310.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside a Mission district bar because employees wouldn’t turn the televisions off; Courtesy of Litquake\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authors have taken off their clothes and jumped in swimming pools. Someone sent us a furious email canceling our newsletter because it had a typo. At our annual female writers’ event one year, during the Q&A, a man stood up and said, “Why would I want to date any of you?” That did not go over well. Some of the touring authors who live in other states, or other countries, come to Litquake and can’t believe the unique flavor of the festival. U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan did a reading at the Lit Crawl one year, and was visibly amazed at the hordes of people running down the street to see authors, programs clutched in their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our 2010 Barbary Coast Award show for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, at a sold-out Herbst Theater… Tom Waits sitting at the piano, with Marcus Shelby looking over his shoulder and picking out notes on the stand-up bass, and Waits cracking jokes and then performing his original musical accompaniment as he sang the words of Ferlinghetti’s poem “Coney Island of the Mind.” People were freaking out. I was on the side of the stage, and thought, “It’s never going to be like this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What led to publishing \u003ci>Drivel\u003c/i>? Why now, after doing Litquake for 15 years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve toyed with the idea of doing book projects, but the industry has changed a great deal in the past 15 years. Anthologies are not being published as much anymore. The \u003ci>Drivel\u003c/i> book was a happy and organic accident, which came out of our annual “Regreturature” benefit shows. One of the participants, journalist Julia Scott, immediately saw the live show as a possible book, so we helped her put together a proposal, and it ended up being a wonderful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How has hosting Litquake in the Bay Area been beneficial? Is there any aspect of being here that makes it difficult?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a brilliant incubator for new ideas, and you could argue that traces back to the early beginnings of San Francisco. There’s always been a restless spirit for innovation, unique ways of looking at things, finding solutions, creating communities, and upsetting the status quo. And it’s a fantastically literate pocket of humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"SF Writer's Grotto holds court at Ritual Roasters during the 2008 Lit Crawl. Credit: Christine Krieg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Writer’s Grotto holds court at Ritual Roasters during the 2008 Lit Crawl. Credit: Christine Krieg \u003ccite>(Photo Credit: Christine Krieg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, it’s increasingly difficult for any arts organization, or individual, to remain based here, especially in San Francisco. Many of us get evicted from our offices and spaces, in favor of startups with plenty of money to burn. In the not-so-distant past, arts nonprofits have enjoyed great support from the local community’s companies and individuals who place value on keeping the city’s arts scene alive and healthy. Unfortunately, many of the current wealthiest corporations in San Francisco (as well as the U.S.) do not think this way. There is a deepening economic chasm between the newer tech money and the ability of artists and art organizations to survive. It’s drastic. The city is losing vast amounts of creative individuals who can’t afford the rents, or who have been evicted. Many of the newer corporations don’t think in terms of donating funding to the arts. To them, their tech tools are free to anyone to use and that should be enough. Tech employees picking up trash in the Tenderloin may look good on paper, but it’s not giving back to the creative community. It would be a very sad San Francisco indeed if the city were simply a collection of overpriced housing, overpriced restaurants, and tech parties and conferences, with no literary, film, theater, fine arts, or music festivals to remind us all of what it means to be human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of us in the arts feel conflicted. It’s fun to have such a surge of money and youth and fresh ideas wash through the city. And Litquake does partner with many of these companies, and many of their employees love Litquake and the arts. But on the other hand, it’s very difficult to raise money to be able to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did your friendship with Marc Maron begin?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met each other in the early 1990s, when he was living in SF. He was doing standup, and I was editing a satirical investigative magazine called \u003cem>The Nose\u003c/em>. I think we met backstage at the old Improv comedy club downtown, which is now the Biscuits & Blues club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s well-known for his interviews – Ira Glass once described his show as being the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/524/i-was-so-high?act=4#play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“\u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> of comedy podcasting.”\u003c/a> Are you nervous about interviewing him for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/attempting-normal-marc-maron-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Attempting Normal\u003c/i>\u003c/a> event at Z Space? Do you think you could get him to cry?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No and no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Bonus:\u003c/strong> Here are five events worth noting that, unlike Boulware’s interview with Maron, still have tickets available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Best American Non-Required Reading, Oct. 12:\u003c/b> This long-running collection of stories and essays never fails in its mission to highlight amazing writing that you might’ve missed. And with the affable Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket as the MC, expect to laugh out loud a few times during the evening. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/best-american-nonrequired-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I Watched the World…30 Years After Brautigan, Oct. 13:\u003c/b> It’s been 30 years since Richard Brautigan took his own life and his work is due for a comeback. Learn more about this writer from friends and family, and see why authors as talented as Haruki Murakami cite him as an influence. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/i-watched-world%E2%80%A630-years-after-brautigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Literary Death Match, Oct. 14:\u003c/b> Well there’s a bit of false-advertising in the title as no one is ever LITERALLY killed, but I bet having your writing judged by authors as highly-regarded as Christopher Moore would make some of us want to die. Still, you know it’s gonna be a blast! \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/best-american-nonrequired-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>the best of craigslist, Oct. 15:\u003c/b> If you’ve never read the \u003ca href=\"http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best of craigslist,\u003c/a> you should be ashamed of yourself. Treat yourself to this event. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/best-craigslist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rock’n’Soul Circus: A Cavalcade of Stars, Oct. 17:\u003c/b> Writing about music is an under-appreciated art (if I do say so \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/kjones/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myself\u003c/a>) and the writers featured in this event are some real “arteests,” who will not only be reading some great examples of music journalism, but will probably have some wonderful stories too. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/rock%E2%80%99n%E2%80%99soul-circus-cavalcade-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Litquake runs Oct. 10-18, 2014 in various San Francisco and San Rafael venues. For \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tickets and information,\u003c/a> visit litquake.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve been doing Litquake for 15 years – has it gotten any easier?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of it gets easier, because we learn more shortcuts over the years. But as the festival and organization keep growing, some of it just takes more time and care and feeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some favorite memories of past Litquakes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides all of the fantastic readings, even hearing an author read that single sentence that could send sparks through your brain? There’s been plenty of crazy things. The first year of Lit Crawl, an unnamed Valencia St. bar refused to turn down their music, so we all filed outside with a chair, and started the readings right on the sidewalk, in front of a janitorial supply store. Authors stood on the chair and read their work, people were clustered around holding beers, cars were driving by and honking their horns. It was really raw and authentic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\" alt=\"The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside a Mission district bar because employees wouldn't turn the televisions off. 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Some of the touring authors who live in other states, or other countries, come to Litquake and can’t believe the unique flavor of the festival. U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan did a reading at the Lit Crawl one year, and was visibly amazed at the hordes of people running down the street to see authors, programs clutched in their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our 2010 Barbary Coast Award show for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, at a sold-out Herbst Theater… Tom Waits sitting at the piano, with Marcus Shelby looking over his shoulder and picking out notes on the stand-up bass, and Waits cracking jokes and then performing his original musical accompaniment as he sang the words of Ferlinghetti’s poem “Coney Island of the Mind.” People were freaking out. I was on the side of the stage, and thought, “It’s never going to be like this again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What led to publishing \u003ci>Drivel\u003c/i>? Why now, after doing Litquake for 15 years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve toyed with the idea of doing book projects, but the industry has changed a great deal in the past 15 years. Anthologies are not being published as much anymore. The \u003ci>Drivel\u003c/i> book was a happy and organic accident, which came out of our annual “Regreturature” benefit shows. One of the participants, journalist Julia Scott, immediately saw the live show as a possible book, so we helped her put together a proposal, and it ended up being a wonderful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How has hosting Litquake in the Bay Area been beneficial? Is there any aspect of being here that makes it difficult?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a brilliant incubator for new ideas, and you could argue that traces back to the early beginnings of San Francisco. There’s always been a restless spirit for innovation, unique ways of looking at things, finding solutions, creating communities, and upsetting the status quo. And it’s a fantastically literate pocket of humanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10143541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"SF Writer's Grotto holds court at Ritual Roasters during the 2008 Lit Crawl. Credit: Christine Krieg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/Litquake-Crop-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Writer’s Grotto holds court at Ritual Roasters during the 2008 Lit Crawl. Credit: Christine Krieg \u003ccite>(Photo Credit: Christine Krieg)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, it’s increasingly difficult for any arts organization, or individual, to remain based here, especially in San Francisco. Many of us get evicted from our offices and spaces, in favor of startups with plenty of money to burn. In the not-so-distant past, arts nonprofits have enjoyed great support from the local community’s companies and individuals who place value on keeping the city’s arts scene alive and healthy. Unfortunately, many of the current wealthiest corporations in San Francisco (as well as the U.S.) do not think this way. There is a deepening economic chasm between the newer tech money and the ability of artists and art organizations to survive. It’s drastic. The city is losing vast amounts of creative individuals who can’t afford the rents, or who have been evicted. Many of the newer corporations don’t think in terms of donating funding to the arts. To them, their tech tools are free to anyone to use and that should be enough. Tech employees picking up trash in the Tenderloin may look good on paper, but it’s not giving back to the creative community. It would be a very sad San Francisco indeed if the city were simply a collection of overpriced housing, overpriced restaurants, and tech parties and conferences, with no literary, film, theater, fine arts, or music festivals to remind us all of what it means to be human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of us in the arts feel conflicted. It’s fun to have such a surge of money and youth and fresh ideas wash through the city. And Litquake does partner with many of these companies, and many of their employees love Litquake and the arts. But on the other hand, it’s very difficult to raise money to be able to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did your friendship with Marc Maron begin?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met each other in the early 1990s, when he was living in SF. He was doing standup, and I was editing a satirical investigative magazine called \u003cem>The Nose\u003c/em>. I think we met backstage at the old Improv comedy club downtown, which is now the Biscuits & Blues club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s well-known for his interviews – Ira Glass once described his show as being the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/524/i-was-so-high?act=4#play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“\u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> of comedy podcasting.”\u003c/a> Are you nervous about interviewing him for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/attempting-normal-marc-maron-conversation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>Attempting Normal\u003c/i>\u003c/a> event at Z Space? Do you think you could get him to cry?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No and no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Bonus:\u003c/strong> Here are five events worth noting that, unlike Boulware’s interview with Maron, still have tickets available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Best American Non-Required Reading, Oct. 12:\u003c/b> This long-running collection of stories and essays never fails in its mission to highlight amazing writing that you might’ve missed. And with the affable Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket as the MC, expect to laugh out loud a few times during the evening. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/best-american-nonrequired-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>I Watched the World…30 Years After Brautigan, Oct. 13:\u003c/b> It’s been 30 years since Richard Brautigan took his own life and his work is due for a comeback. Learn more about this writer from friends and family, and see why authors as talented as Haruki Murakami cite him as an influence. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/events/i-watched-world%E2%80%A630-years-after-brautigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets and Information\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Literary Death Match, Oct. 14:\u003c/b> Well there’s a bit of false-advertising in the title as no one is ever LITERALLY killed, but I bet having your writing judged by authors as highly-regarded as Christopher Moore would make some of us want to die. 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"disqusTitle": "A Tour of Famous Writers’ Homes in the Greater Bay Area",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">Virginia Woolf famously said women need a room of one’s own, but many California writers also found it necessary to build one-of-a-kind homes. From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13822 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_House_and_Hawk_Tower#mediaviewer/File:Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower,_Tor_House,_Carmel,_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.JPG\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robinson Jeffers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.torhouse.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tor House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">“My fingers had the art to make stone love stone,” wrote Robinson Jeffers in his eponymous poem about his home, which he built from 1919 until about 1925. Jeffers’ poetry (he is most well-known for the epic poem \"\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Roan Stallion\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">\" \u003c/span>and the collection \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Tamar and Other Poems\u003c/span>) is infused with a deep appreciation of the natural world and so is the home he built himself after an apprenticeship with a stonemason. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> Visitors can climb the steep steps of Hawk Tower to see the unicorns and hawks (personal symbols of Jeffers and his wife, Una) along with other treasures associated with Irish folklore embedded between the stones. (There’s also a secret staircase inside that Jeffers built for his sons.) Inside his cottage-like home, guests can find rocks and treasures inserted in the walls from around the world (including pieces rumored to be from an Egyptian pyramid). \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">In this intimate tour, guests are asked to read his poem “The Bed by the Window” and to gaze at the very bed in which Jeffers wanted to – and did – pass away in in 1962. While Jeffers was, at first, well-appreciated in his time (gracing the cover of \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Time Magazine \u003c/span>in 1932), he was later disregarded due to his belief in \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers#Inhumanism\">inhumanism\u003c/a> and opposition to U.S. involvement in WWII\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13823 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ken Lund, via Flickr\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ken Lund, via \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/13407835925/\">Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steinbeck Country, Monterey County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Of course, if you’re in Carmel, thoughts drift towards the other, incredibly popular writers of the area – especially \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Steinbeck. \u003c/span>There’s a wealth of riches in “Steinbeck Country,” including the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.steinbeck.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">National Steinbeck Center\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtycounty.com/pgs-steinbeck/memories.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">final resting place\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, and his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://steinbeckhouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">childhood home \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">(now a restaurant – I highly recommend the Steinbeck lasagna!) in Salinas. In Monterey, Steinbeck fans can look at his best friend \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monterey.org/museums/CityMuseums/PacificBiologicalLaboratories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Ed Rickett’s lab\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> (the inspiration for the character Doc in \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Cannery Row\u003c/span>) or even stay in one of his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/08/06/stay-at-the-homes-of-your-favorite-writers-thanks-to-airbnb/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">family’s homes\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Other local highlights include the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c/span> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.historicmonterey.org/hb/stevenson_house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">tribute\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> in Monterey and the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Henry Miller \u003c/span>memorial \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">library \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">in Big Sur. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13824 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jack London’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://jacklondonpark.com/jack-london-wolf-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wolf House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Glen Ellen, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Sure, it’s fun to visit Jack London’s favorite watering hole – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://heinolds.com/hew/bar_info.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">-- in Oakland’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/about-us/about-jack-london-square\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Square\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, but London’s real home was in Glen Ellen, CA, not far from the heart of Sonoma’s Wine Country. London, the thrill-seeking early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Century writer most known for the adventure stories \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Call of the Wild\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">White Fang, \u003c/span>and \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Sea Wolf, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">ultimately\u003c/span> craved tranquility. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">All I wanted,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">London wrote\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“was a quiet place in the country to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After visiting the mountains of Sonoma with his second wife, Charmian, London set out to create his retreat. Once he built Beauty Ranch (a large, working ranch along with a cottage where the Londons lived), the writer decided to create a permanent stone house, named after the animals he was so often identified with – wolves. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Unfortunately, this grand house designed by San Francisco architect Albert Farr burned to the ground in 1913, only days before the Londons could inhabit it. Today, the area is a state historic park where viewers can hike to London’s grave, visit the Museum Charmian designed that includes much of the furniture and books never moved into Wolf House, and, of course, tour the charred ruins of the home. While the effervescent London lived only a few years after the fire (he died at age 40 in 1916), these tributes to the larger-than-life man still thrill visitors nearly a century later. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Tourists in Glen Ellen can also visit the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Research Center and Jack London Lodge\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Study in Tao House. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study in Tao House. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Eugene O’Neill’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/euon/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tao House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Danville, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">In 1914, America’s most honored playwright wrote, “I want to be an artist or nothing.” By the 1920s, he was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his plays, all of which tried to uncover the mysterious forces “behind life,” which helped to shape human destiny. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (still the only American\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> playwright to have received that honor), the Irish-American artist was restless. After traveling and living all over the world, he and third wife, Carlotta Monterey, bought the 158 acre site that was eventually to become Tao House (inspired by the great Chinese Taoist religious traditions) and a National Historic Site. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Carlotta’s deep love for Spanish-colonial architecture and Chinese furniture is evident throughout the house. While O’Neill was sickly during his seven-year stint at Tao House (the longest period he ever lived in one place), he completed first drafts of some of his most famous plays – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cem>The Iceman Cometh\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Long Day's Journey into Night\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">(for which he posthumously received a fourth Pulitzer)\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>and\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\"> \u003cem>A Moon for the Misbegotten\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Visitors to the remote site get a sense of the great tranquility O’Neill must have felt as he spent the morning working in a study closed off by three separate doors before a quiet evening at home listening to jazz and blues records with his beloved dog, Blemie. While O’Neill died in 1953, the legacy of what he had hoped would be his “final harbor” lives on. Apart from the stunning views of the San Ramon Valley, Tao House hosts a great many events for artists and the public.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Since the tour only takes about two and a half hours (including the shuttle ride from Danville), visitors can also take in the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/jomu/planyourvisit/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">John Muir Historic Site\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> in Martinez, CA. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">Virginia Woolf famously said women need a room of one’s own, but many California writers also found it necessary to build one-of-a-kind homes. From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13822 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_House_and_Hawk_Tower#mediaviewer/File:Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower,_Tor_House,_Carmel,_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.JPG\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robinson Jeffers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.torhouse.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tor House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">“My fingers had the art to make stone love stone,” wrote Robinson Jeffers in his eponymous poem about his home, which he built from 1919 until about 1925. Jeffers’ poetry (he is most well-known for the epic poem \"\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Roan Stallion\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">\" \u003c/span>and the collection \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Tamar and Other Poems\u003c/span>) is infused with a deep appreciation of the natural world and so is the home he built himself after an apprenticeship with a stonemason. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> Visitors can climb the steep steps of Hawk Tower to see the unicorns and hawks (personal symbols of Jeffers and his wife, Una) along with other treasures associated with Irish folklore embedded between the stones. (There’s also a secret staircase inside that Jeffers built for his sons.) Inside his cottage-like home, guests can find rocks and treasures inserted in the walls from around the world (including pieces rumored to be from an Egyptian pyramid). \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">In this intimate tour, guests are asked to read his poem “The Bed by the Window” and to gaze at the very bed in which Jeffers wanted to – and did – pass away in in 1962. While Jeffers was, at first, well-appreciated in his time (gracing the cover of \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Time Magazine \u003c/span>in 1932), he was later disregarded due to his belief in \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers#Inhumanism\">inhumanism\u003c/a> and opposition to U.S. involvement in WWII\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13823 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ken Lund, via Flickr\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ken Lund, via \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/13407835925/\">Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steinbeck Country, Monterey County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Of course, if you’re in Carmel, thoughts drift towards the other, incredibly popular writers of the area – especially \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Steinbeck. \u003c/span>There’s a wealth of riches in “Steinbeck Country,” including the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.steinbeck.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">National Steinbeck Center\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtycounty.com/pgs-steinbeck/memories.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">final resting place\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, and his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://steinbeckhouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">childhood home \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">(now a restaurant – I highly recommend the Steinbeck lasagna!) in Salinas. In Monterey, Steinbeck fans can look at his best friend \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monterey.org/museums/CityMuseums/PacificBiologicalLaboratories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Ed Rickett’s lab\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> (the inspiration for the character Doc in \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Cannery Row\u003c/span>) or even stay in one of his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/08/06/stay-at-the-homes-of-your-favorite-writers-thanks-to-airbnb/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">family’s homes\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Other local highlights include the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c/span> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.historicmonterey.org/hb/stevenson_house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">tribute\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> in Monterey and the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Henry Miller \u003c/span>memorial \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">library \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">in Big Sur. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13824 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jack London’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://jacklondonpark.com/jack-london-wolf-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wolf House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Glen Ellen, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Sure, it’s fun to visit Jack London’s favorite watering hole – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://heinolds.com/hew/bar_info.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">-- in Oakland’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/about-us/about-jack-london-square\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Square\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, but London’s real home was in Glen Ellen, CA, not far from the heart of Sonoma’s Wine Country. London, the thrill-seeking early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Century writer most known for the adventure stories \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Call of the Wild\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">White Fang, \u003c/span>and \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Sea Wolf, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">ultimately\u003c/span> craved tranquility. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">All I wanted,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">London wrote\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“was a quiet place in the country to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After visiting the mountains of Sonoma with his second wife, Charmian, London set out to create his retreat. Once he built Beauty Ranch (a large, working ranch along with a cottage where the Londons lived), the writer decided to create a permanent stone house, named after the animals he was so often identified with – wolves. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Unfortunately, this grand house designed by San Francisco architect Albert Farr burned to the ground in 1913, only days before the Londons could inhabit it. Today, the area is a state historic park where viewers can hike to London’s grave, visit the Museum Charmian designed that includes much of the furniture and books never moved into Wolf House, and, of course, tour the charred ruins of the home. While the effervescent London lived only a few years after the fire (he died at age 40 in 1916), these tributes to the larger-than-life man still thrill visitors nearly a century later. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Tourists in Glen Ellen can also visit the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Research Center and Jack London Lodge\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Study in Tao House. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study in Tao House. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13603 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/biblio.jpg\" alt=\"biblio\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/biblio.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/biblio-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://bibliobicicleta.com/\">Bibliobicicleta\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitzgerald. Salinger. Steinbeck. Three of the most popular American writers, but they’re also the three most frequently challenged authors in the United States. It’s late September again -- a time to order overpriced pumpkin spice lattes, post heavily-filtered photos of falling leaves on Instagram, and pull colorful scarves out of our closets. But, more importantly, it’s also time to think about America’s long, uneasy history with our rights as readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13604 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Untitledcastro-270x360.png\" alt=\"Untitledcastro\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Free Library (Sutter Street, SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association hosts Banned Books Week in the last week of September each year to increase “awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrate freedom of speech.” Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.ala.org/bbooks/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> provides great resources about the most challenged books in America, both historically and currently, detailing the specific complaints about the text that led to a challenge or outright ban. The ALA also shows how libraries (and individuals) can help promote thoughtful literacy during this week from read-outs to petitions to supporting various specific battles across the country. And while the ALA raises important questions about what materials should be accessible in libraries and in schools, ultimately, Banned Books Week is also a useful, yearly reminder of the pleasures of reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more than one way to celebrate – and share – a joy of reading. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LittleFreeLibrary\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library\u003c/a> movement, started in 2009 by Todd Bol and Rick Brooks in Wisconsin, is based on a simple, yet powerful idea. Build a small library in your front yard and share books you love with your friends and neighbors. Although inspired by various sources -- Andrew Carnegie’s support of 2,509 free public libraries in the 19th and 20th centuries; a Wisconsin librarian named Miss Lutie Stearns who brought books to more than 1,400 locations through her “little traveling library” program; and grassroots projects around the world – the Little Free Library is inspiring more than a few people to start their own small, local programs. This “take a book, leave a book” model might be modest, but the results are certainly impressive. By January of 2014, it’s estimated that there are more than 15,000 registered Little Free Libraries around the world with thousands more being built each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13605\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/10708508_375479889272643_6228305318926334075_o.jpg\" alt=\"10708508_375479889272643_6228305318926334075_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/10708508_375479889272643_6228305318926334075_o.jpg 667w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/10708508_375479889272643_6228305318926334075_o-400x599.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Tapia, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://bibliobicicleta.com/\">Bibliobicicleta\u003c/a>. Photo: Megan Moura\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The highly literate Bay Area, of course, is host to hundreds of Little Free Libraries (LFLs). With more than 30 in the East Bay alone, it’s hard not to find one in a neighborhood close by, whether you live in Mountain View, San Francisco, or San Jose. While the \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=201860500793147213935.0004ac6e854ff1e35e434&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=43.834527,-89.824219&spn=32.912703,76.113281&t=m&z=4&vpsrc=6&dg=feature\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">Google Map of Libraries\u003c/span>\u003c/a> can no longer accommodate the sheer number of participants across the country, the \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/World-Map-Appendix-1.1-9.15.14-545pm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Library Appendix\u003c/a> tells the stories of many of these libraries. There are local ones created by eager Eagle Scouts, retired teachers or people just hoping to meet some more of their neighbors. While some are large (carved out of old phone booths), small (the size of a doghouse) or even mobile (at the end of a bicycle), all help their communities to thrive. Even better, the libraries are often made of recycled materials and filled with books sure to be popular during Banned Books Week in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the LFLs strive to remain apolitical, they do end up serving an even bigger purpose than sharing a love of reading. By seeing what’s stocked in a LFL, you get a chance to see a community’s passions -- from mysteries to children’s literature to works in translation. And, since there are no regulatory commissions or rules about what can be stocked, readers get exposed to books they might not ever get to enjoy otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So during this week of reflection about whether series like \u003cem>Captain Underpants\u003c/em> by Dav Pilkey (#1 Banned Book in 2013) or \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> by J.K. Rowling (#1 Banned Book in 2002) should be shared with young minds, I challenge you to explore these ideas yourself. Maybe you won’t end up building your own little free library, but maybe you’ll explore a new book instead and celebrate the ability to lose yourself for a few hours in someone else’s story and world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t take my word for it – as Steinbeck himself once said, “Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s late September again -- a time to order overpriced pumpkin spice lattes, post heavily-filtered photos of falling leaves on Instagram, and pull colorful scarves out of our closets. But, more importantly, it’s also time to think about America’s long, uneasy history with our rights as readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13604\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13604 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/Untitledcastro-270x360.png\" alt=\"Untitledcastro\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Free Library (Sutter Street, SF)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association hosts Banned Books Week in the last week of September each year to increase “awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrate freedom of speech.” Their \u003ca href=\"http://www.ala.org/bbooks/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a> provides great resources about the most challenged books in America, both historically and currently, detailing the specific complaints about the text that led to a challenge or outright ban. The ALA also shows how libraries (and individuals) can help promote thoughtful literacy during this week from read-outs to petitions to supporting various specific battles across the country. And while the ALA raises important questions about what materials should be accessible in libraries and in schools, ultimately, Banned Books Week is also a useful, yearly reminder of the pleasures of reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s more than one way to celebrate – and share – a joy of reading. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/LittleFreeLibrary\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library\u003c/a> movement, started in 2009 by Todd Bol and Rick Brooks in Wisconsin, is based on a simple, yet powerful idea. Build a small library in your front yard and share books you love with your friends and neighbors. Although inspired by various sources -- Andrew Carnegie’s support of 2,509 free public libraries in the 19th and 20th centuries; a Wisconsin librarian named Miss Lutie Stearns who brought books to more than 1,400 locations through her “little traveling library” program; and grassroots projects around the world – the Little Free Library is inspiring more than a few people to start their own small, local programs. This “take a book, leave a book” model might be modest, but the results are certainly impressive. 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