“Budgeting the Shark” by Tom Bissell: on the adaptation of Jaws from a best-selling novel (that might make you want to root for the shark) to a blockbuster movie celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
“Death, Ghosts, and the Golden Dream” by Keenan Norris: on the haunting death of a former student and colleague, teaching junior college, and San Jose’s Vietnamese community.
“The Blue House” by Lauren Markham: on the “love-stricken days when the future hung before me like a flickering bulb and I saw only the otherworldly possibility of things at the expense of what was real.”
“The May Queen” by Wesley Stace: The musician and novelist recounts his elderly mother’s unexpected and poignant reunion with her childhood love, the British composer Gavin Bryars.
“Strange Attachment” by Frances Stroh: On being connected to San Francisco—viscerally and otherwise.
Fiction
“The Street Artist” by Claudia Durastanti: Wherein being a gentrifier is a job with ever-changing expectations and roles.
“The Farm” by Pepe Hernandez: First-time-in-print story about two brothers trying to make sense of the Cuban Revolution’s edicts.
Poetry
Kazim Ali, Peter Campion, Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo, Sophia Le Fraga, Jesse Nathan, Dan O’Brien, and Alison Turner.
In Conversation
Lucy Corin and Teresa Carmody unpack their work and their craft in perhaps the most singular interview we’ve published to date.
