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Sarah Walker’s writing has appeared there as well, but not until after my employment with that esteemed group of overeducated funny people had ended. She and I have never met. I don’t believe that my tenuous tangential relationship to these folks has biased my opinions at all, but I figured I’d let you know. So, let’s get on to the actual reviewing, shall we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Walker is a sketch-comedy actress, half of a performing duo called Walker and Cantrell. She is currently a writer for \u003cb>The Daily Show\u003c/b>, and has worked for both David Letterman AND Conan O’Brien. (She has thus hit the trifecta of popular nightly TV shows that are actually good. Way to go Sarah!) Walker kicks off the TOW Books imprint with a perfect holiday read: \u003cb>Really, You’ve Done Enough: A Parent’s Guide to Stop Parenting Their Adult Child Who Still Needs Their Money But Not Their Advice\u003c/b>. In the introduction, Walker notes that she wanted to title the book \u003cb>You Can Stop F@#king Me Up Now\u003c/b>. It purports to be a self-help book — a guide to teach parents how to back off and stop “helicoptering” over their almost-30-year-old offspring. But it quickly becomes way weirder than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book’s narrator is a (hopefully) fictional character also named Sarah Walker, an aimless, jobless, probably alcoholic, twentysomething Brooklynite. The book she narrates isn’t really intended as a guide for all parents; it’s a guide for HER parents, very specifically. She wants them to stop meddling in her life, but to continue sending checks. So she pens this confused, digressive screed, combining fake but official-sounding statistics with badly-concealed bitterness and occasional flights of total insanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has recently been noted,” Walker writes, “…by Danish scientists wearing monocles that twenty-eight is the new twenty-one.” At age 28, Sarah says, young people suffer from a new ailment called “Financial Age Time Stoppage,” and one’s job as a good parent is to continue sending money no matter what. “Do not consider this to be delusional and unhealthy, it is merely good parenting by way of supporting your child’s dreams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sarah character is kind of a spoiled jerk, the kind who is totally oblivious of her spoiled jerkiness. 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Ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could reduce all the funniest bits of \u003cb>Really, You’ve Done Enough\u003c/b> into a list of don’ts, which paradoxically work to illustrate how Mr. and Mrs. Walker behave. Don’t challenge your children’s friends to Beer Pong. Don’t have “loud hotel sex” when your adult child (who knows exactly what you’re doing) is asleep in an adjoining room. Do not ever create an online social network profile of any sort, and “If you start dating your much younger Yoga teacher post-divorce, please acknowledge that this is a cliché.” In the “do” category are just two things: “leave your kids alone” and “send money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you really start to think hard about the social realities underpinning the book’s humor, it might make you depressed. Walker’s book is the perfect illustration of the findings in Dr. Judith Wallerstein’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Unexpected-Legacy-Divorce-Landmark-Study/dp/0786886161/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196653256&sr=8-2\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">landmark 25-year study\u003c/a> of dysfunctional families, \u003cb>The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce\u003c/b>. To be totally reductive and overly simple for a moment: Wallerstein found that children of divorced families in the ’70s and ’80s were in some ways forced to grow up too fast (their parents sometimes treated them more like friends than kids). They also tended to act like immature, overgrown children well into adulthood, often remaining financially dependent, self-centered and underemployed jerks. If you really want to get whiplash, read Walker and Wallerstein at the same time, like I did. 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"content": "\u003cp>So think about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\u003c/a> festival for a minute. Five stages, fifty-odd performers, half a million spectators, great fun had by all. Now imagine that, instead of five stages, there were thirty-five. And instead of fifty-odd performers, there were three hundred. Instead of having to choose between five acts performing simultaneously, you had to choose between twelve. And imagine if each of those acts — no matter if it was Hazel Dickens or Bill Callahan or Jeff Tweedy or John Doe — was allowed to perform one, single, solitary song, no more than five minutes in length. THEN you’ll start to get a sense of how head-spinningly jampacked \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/lit/index.jsp?id=19720\">Litquake\u003c/a> was this year. Battling a cold that never quite took hold yet never quite went away, I valiantly attended as many Litquake events as humanly possible, all for the benefit of you, dear readers. I’ll tell you as much as I remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sunday: OCD, Torture, and Fun at the Library\u003c/b>\u003cbr>Last Sunday, October 7th, I managed to make it to the last few hours of \u003cb>Off The Richter Scale\u003c/b>, two full days of five minute readings at the Main Library’s Koret Auditorium, grouped by theme. I walked in as \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/bell-jeff/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Bell\u003c/a> read in his authoritative radio voice about obsessive-compulsive disorder, specifically, his comsuming fear that he’d hit and killed a homeless man with his car without knowing it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/mirosevich-toni/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Mirosevich\u003c/a> read a sweet little tale of pumping gas and loneliness. Monologuist \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/joshkornbluth/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Kornbluth\u003c/a> talked politics. Describing himself as a “passive-ist,” he said he hoped this nation has “a soupçon of democracy remaining, as they say at Chez Panisse.” Not to harp on \u003ca href=\"http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2007/09/03/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Rall’s\u003c/a> fun-hater cartoon, as previously mentioned, but I was again amused by his prescience when \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/karim-persis/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Persis Karim\u003c/a> actually read a poem about her nanny’s children. 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The massive success of \u003cb>Dharma Punx\u003c/b> author \u003ca>Noah Levine\u003c/a> has changed the whole new-age market, Bucky explained. So now, every new age publisher wants to sign their own big tough guy with lots of tattoos to write a recovery book, I ask? “EXACTLY!” he says. He’s happy with Redwheel/Weiser. “As long as they don’t put, like, a river on the cover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Calhoun, aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.count-dante.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Count Dante\u003c/a>, read from his memoir \u003cb>Beer, Blood and Cornmeal\u003c/b>, about his years in Incredibly Strange Wrestling. 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Poet and greek translator \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/barnstone-willis/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Willis Barnstone\u003c/a> read some dog-inspired poetry. Five minutes previous, he had lifted a derelict woman off the pavement where she had fallen. Phase Three: we try and fail to shove our way in to the Marsh Cafe to see the poets of SPD, and thus migrate over to the Latin American Club, where we finally manage to elbow our way inside in time for the final performance. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/cortez-jaime/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaime Cortez\u003c/a> read a piece about a group of little Latino kids who have a near-religious encounter with a mobile donut-selling van. It is sweet, hilarious, uplifting, devastating, gripping, everything you hope to encounter at a literary event but almost never do. We gasp and hiss and cheer at all the right moments, and then before we know it, it’s all over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Aftermath\u003c/b>\u003cbr>Riding on a wave of goodwill, I hit the afterparty, upstairs at the Elbo Room. It is exceedingly loud, the crowd at the bar is three deep. Andrew Sean Greer and Daniel Handler tear it up on the dancefloor. I notice Daniel is still wearing his Literary Deathmatch champion medal. “Doris Lessing won the Nobel and it just FIRED ME UP!” he yells. A big screen runs a loop of powerpoint slides, some of which were photos that had been taken mere hours before. The event ran a final lap around itself, like a dog that’s finally managed to catch its own tail. Dave Eggers shouted pleasantries through the din. Count Dante, wearing the same massive fringed buckskin jacket he’d worn on Thursday, tried to give me the same flyer about his book that he’d given me twice before. A guy with a linguistics PhD states that he doesn’t dance, on principle. I decide it’s time to go and several authors, slick with dance-sweat, give me damp goodbye hugs. On the way out the door, I am given a tiny box containing two truffles. I give one to the volunteer gamely manning the door, she wishes me a good evening, and I stagger out into the warmish Mission night, in desperate need of sleep. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>So think about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\u003c/a> festival for a minute. Five stages, fifty-odd performers, half a million spectators, great fun had by all. Now imagine that, instead of five stages, there were thirty-five. And instead of fifty-odd performers, there were three hundred. Instead of having to choose between five acts performing simultaneously, you had to choose between twelve. And imagine if each of those acts — no matter if it was Hazel Dickens or Bill Callahan or Jeff Tweedy or John Doe — was allowed to perform one, single, solitary song, no more than five minutes in length. THEN you’ll start to get a sense of how head-spinningly jampacked \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/lit/index.jsp?id=19720\">Litquake\u003c/a> was this year. Battling a cold that never quite took hold yet never quite went away, I valiantly attended as many Litquake events as humanly possible, all for the benefit of you, dear readers. I’ll tell you as much as I remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sunday: OCD, Torture, and Fun at the Library\u003c/b>\u003cbr>Last Sunday, October 7th, I managed to make it to the last few hours of \u003cb>Off The Richter Scale\u003c/b>, two full days of five minute readings at the Main Library’s Koret Auditorium, grouped by theme. I walked in as \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/bell-jeff/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Bell\u003c/a> read in his authoritative radio voice about obsessive-compulsive disorder, specifically, his comsuming fear that he’d hit and killed a homeless man with his car without knowing it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/mirosevich-toni/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Mirosevich\u003c/a> read a sweet little tale of pumping gas and loneliness. Monologuist \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/joshkornbluth/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Kornbluth\u003c/a> talked politics. Describing himself as a “passive-ist,” he said he hoped this nation has “a soupçon of democracy remaining, as they say at Chez Panisse.” Not to harp on \u003ca href=\"http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2007/09/03/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Rall’s\u003c/a> fun-hater cartoon, as previously mentioned, but I was again amused by his prescience when \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/karim-persis/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Persis Karim\u003c/a> actually read a poem about her nanny’s children. Then things took a darker turn when \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/marcom-micheline-aharonian/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Micheline Aharonian Marcom\u003c/a> followed up with an absolutely bone-chilling section of her soon-to-be-released novel \u003cb>Draining The Sea\u003c/b>: a horrifically graphic love letter from a torturer to the woman that he is grueseomely killing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/murguia-alejandro-2/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Alejandro Murguia\u003c/a> read about a little boy selling flowers from a bucket in the Mission. He offered to show everyone some knife tricks after the reading. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/shumas-holly/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Holly Shumas\u003c/a> read a piece of her novel in progress that takes place during the Litquake Litcrawl. The event began running self-referential laps around itself at that moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Monday: Polish Punks, Kitchen Gloves, and the Gay Jimmy Carter\u003c/b>\u003cbr>Monday night at the Swedish-American Hall, the sold-out crowd nearly wraps around the block. The theme of Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchlightsf.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Porchlight Storytelling Series\u003c/a> was \u003cb>I’d Prefer Not To: Writers Talk about Day Job Hell.\u003c/b> Due to the sheer number of readers, they had to tell shorter stories than usual — a theme carried through the rest of the week. \u003cb>King Dork\u003c/b> author \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/portman-frank/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Portman\u003c/a> told a tour story from his days in the punk band The Mr. T Experience. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/boulware-jack/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boulware\u003c/a> discussed buying a car in the 1980s for a bank president known as “the gay Jimmy Carter.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/orloff-alvin/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Alvin Orloff\u003c/a> won the prize, in my mind, for worst job on offer. As the “Boy In a Box,” a short-lived feature of a male strip show, Alvin endured fondling by strangers wearing yellow rubber kitchen gloves. \u003ca href=\"http://www.badgirlswirl.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameron Tuttle\u003c/a> (gun-shy after once being sued for copyright infrigement, she told me later) insisted that she’d never ever had a bad job experience, and her tale of working for a horrifically manipulative TV producer was simply “a dream” with no parallels whatsoever to her experience as a writer for a recent failed sitcom pilot based on her books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Thursday: Ex-Boozers, Fit-Cruisers, Scotsmen, and U2\u003c/b>\u003cbr>My favorite event of the week took place in the spiritual home of the festival: the \u003ca href=\"http://castlenews.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh Castle\u003c/a>. I feared I’d be run out of there on a caber, after my \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/lit/index.jsp?id=18961\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">lukewarm reception\u003c/a> of Irvine Welsh’s last book, but I needn’t have worried. I was, literally, warmly embraced. I shared a table with \u003ca href=\"http://www.stephenelliott.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Elliott\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.carolinepaul.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Caroline Paul\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.buckysinister.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Bucky Sinister\u003c/a> told us his next book, about his drug addiction and recovery, is due at the publisher in three months. That publisher is Redwheel/Weiser, better known for titles like \u003cb>A Witch’s Guide to Psychic Healing\u003c/b>. I expressed my surprise. The massive success of \u003cb>Dharma Punx\u003c/b> author \u003ca>Noah Levine\u003c/a> has changed the whole new-age market, Bucky explained. So now, every new age publisher wants to sign their own big tough guy with lots of tattoos to write a recovery book, I ask? “EXACTLY!” he says. He’s happy with Redwheel/Weiser. “As long as they don’t put, like, a river on the cover.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Calhoun, aka \u003ca href=\"http://www.count-dante.com\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Count Dante\u003c/a>, read from his memoir \u003cb>Beer, Blood and Cornmeal\u003c/b>, about his years in Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He also shouted some bit of doggerel about OJ Simpson. \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/murray-ginger/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Ginger Murray\u003c/a>, editor of Whore! magazine (or “whooarrrrr magazine,” which is how the very Scottish bar manager \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/black-alan-2/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Black\u003c/a> says it), read a forgettable story in an incredibly sexy, smoky voice. After she uttered the phrase “Drunk with power I was,” Stephen Elliott leaned in and said, “I’ve just coined a new term. Pulling a Yoda. You use it in a writing workshop when somebody writes a horrible sentence like ‘drunk with power I was.'” \u003ca href=\"http://www.bethlisick.com/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth Lisick\u003c/a> read from \u003cb>Helping Me Help Myself\u003c/b>, her soon-to-be-released nonfiction book about attending self-help seminars of various types. The section she read was from her week on a Richard Simmons fitness cruise. It was even more horrific than you’re imagining right now. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sevenstories.com/author/index.cfm?fa=ShowAuthor&Person_ID=75\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Plate\u003c/a>, ever the rabble rouser, began his “recitation” with a little agitprop. “if not us, then NO ONE! If not now, then NEVER!” he called out. Then he recited, from memory, a chapter from his latest novel. He kept his mirrored shades on, and I wondered, does he write crib notes on the inside of the lenses? He didn’t stumble once, not even on the words “dumpster behind the federal building,” when a patron’s pet dalmation began barking. Afterwards, back at our table, he pronounces his performance merely “average.” Bucky, \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/mcwilliams-katherine-2/\" target=\"offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Katherine McWilliams\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/authors/james-luke/\">Luke James\u003c/a> read one after the other, and all three of them mention the band U2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Litquake. Oh, Litquake! One of my favorite weeks of the whole entire year and becoming more favorite each time. Who cares what fun-haters like \u003ca href=\"http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2007/09/03/\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Rall\u003c/a> say about literary festivals? I for one, would pay good money to hang out with crowd-surfing letterpress compositors. I doubt that will actually happen at \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Litquake\u003c/a> — the festival that has become the focus of a year’s planning and excitement for local litterati, but you never know. Considering the sort of \u003ca href=\"http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/20/DDGUDR3F0P1.DTL&hw=Stephen+Elliott&sn=001&sc=1000\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">behavior\u003c/a> we’ve seen from local authors recently, nothing would surprise me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From its very origins, Litquake has been anything but sedate or safe. Founded by a gang of outlaws including \u003cb>San Francisco Bizarro\u003c/b> author Jack Boulware and Chron columnist Jane Ganahl, Litquake began over drinks at the Tenderloin’s Edinburgh Castle, and the Castle remains the event’s spiritual home. In its earliest incarnation “Litstock,” the event was a single day of marathon readings on a chilly outdoor stage. Renamed and expanded, the centerpiece of the festival is now TWO days of marathon readings (indoors this time) at the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library. But these days Litquake comprises a whole week of author luncheons, signings, and special installments of many of our fine city’s favorite ongoing reading series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capping the week is the infamous Lit Crawl, a night of utter insanity in the Mission District. Dozens of readings will take place in three one-hour “phases,” at a wide variety of bars, restaurants, and storefronts. Between phases, participants must run as fast as possible to the next venue, hoping to get there in time enough to beat the crowd and actually get inside and hear something. In years past, there were maybe 4 simultaneous events per “phase.” This year, there’s something close to 9,000, and no matter which reading you attend, you’ll be kicking yourself that you couldn’t go to all the rest. It just goes to show that we have an embarrassment of literary riches here in the Bay Area, and I, for one, hope that Litquake continues to grow and prosper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Fringefest, or any of our city’s great film festivals, the first hurdle is accepting that you WILL NOT be attending each and every event. You probably have a job to go to, and you probably can’t clone yourself. So here’s a smattering of my Litpicks for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What I’d Go To If I Had The Money\u003c/b>\u003cbr>For the first time, Litquake is going to be presenting its Barbary Coast Award for lifetime achievement to \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/2007-opening-night-invitation/\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">Armistead Maupin\u003c/a>, the man who inspired untold Mary Ann Singletons to leave Cleveland and make their mood rings blue with his serialized and disco-drenched \u003cb>Tales of the City\u003c/b> saga. Appearing with Maupin that night will be Andrew Sean Greer, Michelle Tea, Father Guido Sarducci, the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon, and actress Laura Linney, who played Mary Ann in the “Tales” miniseries, among others. This is such the ultimate San Francisco event, I wouldn’t be surprised if the heavenly sprirts of Harvey Milk, Herb Caen, and Emperor Norton all descended in a winged cable car to sprinkle the crowd with Rice-A-Roni. It might happen. If you can, drop that extra c-note for access to the afterparty. The fun happens at 8pm on Saturday, October 6, 2007 at the Herbst Theatre. Buy your tickets ahead of time \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityboxoffice.com/default.asp?SearchMonth=10/28/2007&MV=10/6/2007&sel=x\" target=\"_offsite\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What I Will Probably Try to Get To If Possible\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forget the star-studded evening galas. 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