Beats, Hipsters, and California Cool: Essays on the Literary Life,Writing, and Other Trifles

Twenty-two previously published essays on writing, the writing life, books,women in art, Beats, Venice West, Berkeley, and the anthropology of disaffiliation, by the author of The Cats' Journal(excerpted for a KPFA radio reading), Temp Girl, Six For Four, The PoCharm Book, The San Francisco Fatty Arbuckle Past and Virginia Present, and The Spaniel's Bark. Insightful, practical, urban and entertaining.