We would hike up Telegraph Hill all the way to Coit Tower. We’d go past the parking lot to where you see the sweep of the Bay laid out and people clogging up the panorama posing for [...]
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By joshuacitrak, on December 11th, 2009 |
 The beat cop leans down to the driver’s side window of the squad car. The noise coming off of Market Street is making it hard to hear what the two in the black and white are saying. [...] By Chris West, on August 5th, 2009 |
A thick creamy plume of smoke rises up into the stale air of the hotel room. Back at it By joshuacitrak, on July 22nd, 2009 |
This week Barnes and Noble has launched its eBook site, offering 700,000 titles at start. While Amazon and its Kindle continue to struggle, mostly because of proprietary format issues, B&N will allow its books to be read on the industry standard ePub format. The ePub format works on a variety of devices, from your iPhone [...] By joshuacitrak, on July 10th, 2009 |
Never look at your favorite restaurant in the same way thanks to, “Cooking Dirty,” another tome in the long line of kitchen exposé books. Part memoir, part confessional, Jason Sheehan serves up the typical gross out “you won’t believe what happens before that souffle gets to your table” stories that inundate the foodie world. Sheehan, however, does it better than most, and importantly, doesn’t take himself too seriously as he chronicles his experiences during the long hours spent in commercial kitchens. [...] By joshuacitrak, on June 15th, 2009 |
I smoked a cigarette down to my knuckles keeled against the dumpster; she never came out. Probably she still had [...] By joshuacitrak, on March 14th, 2009 |
“Four days before dontcha know she’d cut herself,” my cousin paused through the phone. I could hear the phone scratching on something, his face, shoulder, while he was knocking at something with his free hands. “You know. Slashed her wrist.” By admin, on October 10th, 2008 |
Though I’m only two stories into Well Tower’s first collection, “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned”, the book is turning into a delightful find. Towers spins his prose with a quirky matter-of-factness making the odd and strange seem at home amongst the norm of everyday [...] By admin, on September 16th, 2008 |
ODB, the clownish MC of the Wu-Tang Clan, lived an unhinged, raucous life that ended too early. While he was a vital member of the ground breaking and widely influential hip hop group, Dirty is better known now for the impressive list of vices and fuck ups. He was father to nine children by numerous women, had a national rap sheet, did time in Clinton Correctional, abused crack, was an un-treated manic depressive, and died virtually broke after two solo gold records and a platinum Wu record. [...] By admin, on May 6th, 2008 |
“Danger City” is a collection of short stories from a lot of talented, but relatively unknown, authors (Mike Welch, Mike Segretto, Todd Robinson, Jeffery, Kuczmarski, Vinnie Penn, Sean Beaudoin, Jon McCarron, Carl Moore, Dana Fredsti, Jeff Somers, Roman Bojanski, Jeff Dinsmore, Mike Cipra). this is definitely dude fiction, right up our [...] |
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