Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. 
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1977-2022
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The Classic Years 1937–1973
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Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024
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Tag Archives: North Beach
Frisco Beat: Secret San Francisco
How about a couple of pics from the panel last Sunday in Jack Kerouac alley? A trifle in front of the stage, to the your left is Vesuvio’s Bar and to the right City Lights Books. At the back Grant … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, SFSC
Tagged Chinatown, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac alley, John Law, North Beach, Ruth Carlson, Secret San Francisco, William Forsythe
Rediscovered: Lost Books of the Amazon
After who knows how many years of goofing off, I finally got around to getting my Author Page on Amazon looking pretty. Some photos, a basic blurb, updates fed in from this blog — and a few but by no means all … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, Lit, News
Tagged Alfa Romeo Club, Amazon, Hammett Tour Book, Kindle, Literary World of San Francisco, North Beach
