SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO: VOYAGES THROUGH THE UNKNOWN CITY
I’m very excited to announce that my new book with artist Paul Madonna, Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City, is coming out on Oct. 20, 2020. Readers of Paul’s acclaimed, best-selling series and book All Over Coffee know that he is a master of offbeat, poetic and miniature urban vistas. Here he expands his artistic vision to include both well-known San Francisco sites like the Haas-Lilienthal house and the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park, and lesser-known places like Calhoun Terrace (site of wild parties and rogue quarrymen since the 19th century, and dazzlingly featured on the book’s cover) and venerable South Park, the city’s first aristocratic neighborhood. I had the pleasurable task of rooting about like a historical truffle pig under and around each of the sixteen sites in the book, unearthing weird and wonderful facts and connections. If Cool Gray City of Love was a grand panorama of San Francisco, Spirits of San Francisco is an extreme close-up—and who could capture the fine and mysterious visual grain of this city better than Paul Madonna? Paul and I have wanted to work together for years, and this collaboration has been a dream come true for both of us.
You can order Spirits of San Francisco using the links below. Paul and I will also be appearing in conversation in a number of virtual events, listed here:
• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020
Book release
City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
6:00 pm, PST USA
Virtual event - Register HERE
• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020
Copperfield's Books
Virtual event, registration details to come
• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2020
Commonwealth Club
3:30 - 4:30 pm, PST USA
Virtual event, registration details to come
• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020
West Portal
Virtual event, details to come
• TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The Battery, San Francisco
6:00 pm, PST USA
Virtual event, registration details to come
SPIRITS OF SAN FRANCISCO: VOYAGES THROUGH THE UNKNOWN CITY
• ORDER HERE
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EDITION HERE
