Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle-when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End / Dave Pell She also taught writing at San Francisco State University. The late Mary Ann Hogan was an award-winning journalist and teacher whose credits included The New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and Mother Jones magazine. Including the author's great grandfather, an Oakland lumber baron who lost his fortune in the crash of '29 and a great uncle who was sent to San Quentin for two deaths some say he may not have caused. Sifting through her father's notebooks after his death, she discovers a man whose unrealized dreams echo her own.Įager to learn more about her family even as she wrestles with terminal illness, Hogan explores the fascinating cast of characters who were her forebears. Hogans father Bill was the well-known literary editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for 27 years. $35, due out FebruĬircle Way: A Daughter's Memoir, a Writer's Journey Home / Mary Ann HoganĬircle Way is a bittersweet memoir of a father, daughter, and a prominent California family. Menergy is the product of years of research, with dozens of personal interviews, archival research drawing upon hundreds of contemporary journals, photographs, bar rags, diaries, nightclub ephemera, and, most importantly, the recordings of the San Francisco artists themselves. With Menergy, author Louis Niebur offers a project of reconstruction in order to restore these lost figures to their rightful place in the legacy of 20th century popular music. This music reflected a new way of life, a world apart and a culture of sexual liberation for gay men especially.
Almost immediately this music reached far beyond the Bay, with Megatone Records, Moby Dick Records, and other labels achieving worldwide success, creating the world's first gay-owned, gay-produced music for a dancing audience. Menergy: San Francisco's Gay Disco Sound / Louis NieburĪfter a backlash against disco music in 1979, enterprising gay DJs, record producers, and musicians in the Castro District started their own small dance music record labels to make up for the lack of new, danceable music. Pop Sugar says "Can you get high from reading a book? You'll swear Raver Girl is laced with something." And if she can survive high school, she just might be okay. She's an independent woman whose inner strength is rooted in unwavering family ties.
She's a creative whose mind is limitless, whose quirks are charms, whose passion is inspirational. Through euphoric highs and dangerous lows, Samantha discovers she's someone who lives life to the fullest and learns best through alternative experience rather than mainstream ideals.
Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s / Samantha DurbinĪ '90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the SF Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles Durbin's double life as she teeters between hedonism and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her father. Gabrielle Selz's book really captures his spirit." He would get onto a canvas and really clean house. Ed Ruscha says, "I think of Sam as a modern-day Nijinsky with a big loaded brush. With settings from World War II San Francisco to post-war Paris, New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles, Selz writes an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn't resolve in life.
His entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program, and several nonprofits. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. She traces the extraordinary life of this complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis / Gabrielle Selzĭrawing on exclusive interviews and private correspondence, Gabrielle Selz offers a revelatory biography of Sam Francis, one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, and the American painter who brought the vocabulary of abstract expressionism to Paris.