Tag Archives: George Sterling

Rediscovered: Dictum Morgmanius

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Don

Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes just noticed that I invoked his famous dictum on Art in my review of the George Sterling caveman book the other day: Any work of art is made better by the inclusion of cavemen and dinosaurs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Dictum Morgmanius, George Sterling, Morgan Holmes |

Rediscovered: Steinbeck, Classical Puzzle Mystery Writer

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Don

Brian Wallace pops in a link to a long article from the Los Angeles Review of Books covering a crime novel — with werewolves, kind of — John Steinbeck wrote at the start of his career. It was 1930 and … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Brian Wallace, Edgar Box, George Sterling, Gore Vidal, John Steinbeck, Los Angeles Review of Books |

Frisco Beat: Wolf and Greek Go All Primeval

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Don

Our pal Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes has a dictum — either the product of his own profound deliberations or picked up over shots of whiskey in a seedy bar held together with vines and rattan somewhere on the outskirts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, REH | Tagged Before Adam, Clark Ashton Smith, George Sterling, Jack London, literary suicides, Lovecraft, Morgan Holmes, Popular Magazine, Vince Emery |

Rediscovered: Barlow and the Becks

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Don

Autograph Hound Super-Sunday continues Brian Leno’s recent fascination with the tragic literary figure Robert H. Barlow, spotlighting some of the most recent autograph items he’s picked up as satellites to that interest. And just as one thing connects to another … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, REH | Tagged Autographs, Brian Leno, Doc Howard, Druid Press, E. Hoffmann Price, George Sterling, Groo Beck, John Howell, literary suicides, Otis Adelbert Kline, Robert H. Barlow |

Rediscovered: Every Copy of an Edition

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Don

I think I had my longtime pal Donald Sidney-Fryer really going for about two or three weeks late last year, when I told him I was thinking about collecting the entire print run — a reported 2045 copies — of … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit | Tagged A. M. Robertson, Arkham House, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Donald Sidney-Fryer, G. Sutton Breiding, Gahan Wilson, George Sterling, John D. Haefele, Richard Brisson, Stan McNail |

Frisco Beat: And the Speakers Are

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Don

The celebration for the 25th anniversary of the literary streets is on for 2 p.m. in Jack Kerouac alley, next to City Lights, on Sunday October 6. The roster of speakers (five minutes each, max, or so I’m told) will … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged City Lights, George Sterling, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary streets |

Frisco Beat: The Return of Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Don

This coming Saturday, September 17, starting at 3p.m., you’ll find Donald Sidney-Fryer back in town for a signing in Borderlands. He did his stint as a San Francisco writer, starting sometime in the 1960s, tossing himself full tilt into the Hippie Scene … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Frisco, Lit, News | Tagged Ambrose Bierce, August Derleth, Book Collecting, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Donald Wandrei, E. Hoffmann Price, Fritz Leiber, George Sterling, Guillermo del Toro, H. Warner Munn, Leo Grin, Lovecraft, Musso & Frank |

News: December 2008

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Webmaster

NOTHING EXTRA IN THE OLD STOCKING No extra walks have been set for December, and in fact Don got so buried in other stuff we didn’t even do News for October or November — still, we figured John’s Grill making … Continue reading →