Amber Tamblyn, star of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies, is also an accomplished writer. She's promoting her new book, 'Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition' wearing a pin of her poetry mentor, the late Jack Hirschman.
Local bon vivant Broke-Ass Stuart broke the mold with two decades of hustling as a travel writer, TV host, and mayoral candidate, and celebrates 20 years of his SF penny-pinching shenanigans with a Public Works party Thursday and a new zine.
He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This is perhaps why so much of Yépez’s critique of the Mexico City literary establishment focuses on money: who gets it, who doesn’t, and who decides who belongs in each category.