Tag Archives: Bancroft Library

Rediscovered: San Francisco — and California — Mysteries

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Don

Just got tipped off to a recent interview with librarian Randal Brandt on CrimeReads, if you’d care to drift over and check it out. Randal took up the search for mysteries set in San Francisco after I donated my collection … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Bancroft Library, Crimereads, Randal Brandt |

Rediscovered: A Mil Plus Will Get You Boucher Central

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Don

Wooden crates house the library of William Anthony Parker White — better known by the penname Anthony Boucher to the mystery-reading world — in the upstairs office area of his longtime Berkeley home. D. S. Black of the Bancroft Library just … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Anthony Boucher, Bancroft Library, D.S. Black, literary homes, Literary Plaques |

Sinister Cinema: Publicity Shots

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Don

How about we kick off a new month with some publicity shots from the Archives of Stephen Talbot? Steve popped these to me recently. Pic at top, left to right, Lyle Talbot, Nancy Hult, Don Herron (me!) and Steve from 1982, … Continue reading →