MillValleyLit

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Spring Issue 2013

The Mill Valley Literary Review is a quarterly providing encouragement, wit and resources for Marin and San Francisco Bay's literary rennasaince. Emerging writers and enthusiastic readers - Welcome.

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Our Special Spring Women's Issue features interviews with rock n'roll mystery writer Deborah Grabien, "fEmpowerment" author Sandy Shepard, and debut novelist Barbara Davies. The Winter Contest winner is announced, plus poems and stories, The Paris Wife, The Women of Frank Lloyd Wright , Dorothy Parker, Patricia Highsmith, Pacific Sun's Jill Kramer and much more.

LIT-VENT

Depot Bookstore and Cafe

Thursday, May 16th ~ 5:30

Christie Nelson and John M. King Discuss
“Place as Character" with a Dramatic Reading

Christie Nelson, author of Dreaming Mill Valley and Woodacre, and John M. King, poet, and Publisher of Mill Valley Literary Review, will discuss the theme and power of using “place as character” featuring examples from their writing.

The Depot Bookstore & Cafe | 87 Throckmorton Ave. | Mill Valley CA 383-2665

MILL VALLEY - Home to The Mill Valley Film Festival, Mt. Tam, redwood trees, Dipsea foot Race, waterfalls, an entire hilly neighborhood with streets named after POETS, rock stars, artists, and

WRITERS, WRITERS, WRITERS

The Mill Valley writing community has included Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Maxine Chernoff, Cyra McFadden, Peter Coyote, Gerald Nicosia, John Gray, Sterling Hayden, Gary Snyder, Joyce Maynard, Jane Hirschfield, Jack Finney (Body Snatchers,) composer , Vince Guaraldi, John Lennon and other lyricists, and more. Marin environs authors must include Anne Lamott, Isabel Allende, Kerouac's daughter Jan (also a writer), Stirling Silliphant, Shel Silverstein, Catherine Coulter, personal favorites Van Morrison (aural poet), Philip K. Dick, R.I.P. Barnaby Conrad, Joe Esterhaus, and Richard Brautigan.

Mill Valley is pedigreed with notables such as Jack Kerouac, who once lived in Homestead Valley, and in On the Road mash-uped Mill Valley with Marin City for "Mill City," an Ernest Hemingway connection, as his eldest son and grand-daughter Mariel called Mill Valley home in the 60s, and a Jack London (Sea-Wolf) reference.

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R.I.P. Barnaby Conrad
MillValleyLit wrote about this classic S.F.\Marin bullfightin’ man in the last 2 issues. From SFGate obit: "Barnaby Conrad, who combined several different lives in his 90 years, died at his home in Carpinteria, in Santa Barbara County, on Feb. 12."

Mr. Conrad was, at various times, a bullfighter, a diplomat, a man about town, an author, a painter, owner of a North Beach night spot in one of San Francisco's golden ages, and a patron of the arts.
"He really had an amazing life," said his son, Barnaby Conrad III. "He liked people, he liked stars, he loved characters and never forgot a name. He was a dashing fellow himself and he really enjoyed life."

He will be missed.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-bar-owner-writer-Barnaby-Conrad-dies-4284962.php#ixzz2LSlHmXzO

Conrad photos from web sources