The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007) Savages by Bill Pronzini (New York: Forge, 2007) There is something in us that makes us want to watch the video of the FedEx plane crashing at the Tokyo airport and bursting into flames. If there wasn’t, the video wouldn’t be played over and over by the media. They know we want to watch it. And we do. What do … Read More »

If not you, who? If not now, when? The Talmud In this Second Great Depression, all of us must decide whether to help or hinder the Great Transformation. You. Now. What a better time to begin than on the first day of spring this coming Friday? What a better place to begin than within our own hearts? … Read More »

Susan Patron will read from her new book, Lucky Breaks. DATE: Wednesday, March 18th TIME: … Read More »

Nobody Owens lives in a graveyard. After his parents were murdered, Nobody, who at the time of the crime was an infant, miraculously escapes the killer and wanders up a hill toward a graveyard where he is adopted by ghosts. (”It takes a graveyard to raise a child,” Gaiman puns. He is also the author of Coraline). Since The Graveyard Book begins with a brutal murder, I wondered if it … Read More »

Over 1 million civilians may die from starvation if the world does not act immediately. After the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir for crimes against humanity related to the genocide in Darfur, Bashir retaliated by kicking out 13 international relief organizations (like OXFAM and Doctors without Borders). You can read the articles below for more information. Please contact Rep. Lynn Woolsey (202-225-5161) and … Read More »

There are dark places we are afraid to visit and there are dark places we can’t stay out of. You know where they are even if you’ve never been there. They have names like Skid Row and Hell’s Kitchen. Names that stick. Bright neon red warning signs. In San Francisco, the name is Tenderloin. It’s the location for one of the seventeen stories about San Francisco’s dark side in this … Read More »