San Francisco (Calif.) Archives

Lost and Found

by Harry Dodge,

From My Meteorite, which was published last month by Penguin Books. Dodge is a sculptor and video artist. I always knew I was adopted, and since I was born in…

The Most Hated Nation

by John Dos Passos,

It was the foggy end of a drizzly day. Along the lunch counter of the Ferry Dock Tavern, gray-haired men in overalls and leather jackets were eating oyster stew. A…

San Francisco Blues

by Lillian Symes,

I am aware, of course, that San Francisco’s reputation is based largely upon reminiscence. Much of its glamour belongs to a past upon which the native is only too prone…

Stonewall at Fifty

by Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

Now and Then

by Rebecca Solnit,

The present is by common definition the instant between the not yet and the already, a moment as narrow and treacherous as a tightrope. But you might instead define it…

Coming Apart

by Rebecca Solnit,

In early 2015, fire ravaged a three-story building at the corner of 22nd and Mission in San Francisco. The blaze killed Mauricio Orellana, an immigrant from El Salvador, and destroyed…

Division Street

by Robert Gumpert, Rebecca Solnit,

Chances are that you are living the good life, at least in the most fundamental sense. You have the liberty to leave your home and the security of a home…

Silicon Ally

by Richard Rodriguez,

From an interview with Richard Rodriguez published in the Spring 2014 issue of Boom: A Journal of California. Rodriguez is the author, most recently, of Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography, excerpted…

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Final Edition

by Richard Rodriguez,

Twilight of the American newspaper

Alamo Square

by Liz Hickok,

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