Recent Issues
Issues #19—22 Issue #19: That mysterious Mill Valley scent of foggy redwood, madrone and chaparral. Our history of hikers, hippies and city escapers—to creeks, to waterfalls and canyons, so wild, […]
MillValleyLit Interview List
Can you name these writers whom we have interviewed? Previous MillValleyLit interviews include: T.C. Boyle, Peter Coyote, DeLorean Auto CFO Walter Strycker, Anne R. Dick, Lyle Tuttle, […]
Poetry 21
Profile of Bryan Franco, Poet by Jeff Kaliss Across the […]
Book Reviews by Nick King
The Reviewer’s Review Mirror by NICK KING The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is written by Stieg Larsson and is the first book in the Millenium series. TGWDT […]
Sands Hall
Winter 2022 Edition WINTERTIME… and the living is creative. The following Winter Issue Intro and creative update from ever-kinetic Sands Hall, MillValleyLit contributor. Sands creative achievements include author, playwright, director, […]
Love on a Rooftop—Barn Owls in SF
In February, 2022, longtime San Francisco resident Kathleen Volkmann discovered that she was being watched through the bedroom window in her Presidio Heights home. By barn owls. She began documenting […]
I Was a Teenage Runaway
I Was a Teenage Runaway: Haight-Ashbury 1968 memoir by Carol Green with J.Macon King The true story of a Wild Thing. Catholic Valley Girl runs away to San Francisco’s hippie […]
Chasing Byron
Chasing Byron exclusive excerpt from Jeb Harrison’s new novel Crazed snake charmers, crooked judges, chicken thieves, golf heroes, mythical Gods, dead voices: Chasing Byron, set in 1945 as WWII is […]
The Orange Peeler Meets Johnny Wadd
The Orange Peeler Meets Johnny Wadd fiction by J.S. Ryan The best unpublished short story I ever read was called “The Death of Johnny Wadd.” It was written by […]
SALONICA
Salonica by Marcel Alalof translated from the French I remember my grandfather, lying fully clothed in the semi- darkness of his bedroom, eyes staring at the ceiling, searching for images […]
The Pole
The Pole memoir by Kevin Lavely, Reno, Nevada So yeah, it’s only a piece of wood. But, this 72-foot-tall piece of wood has been stuck in my backyard since about […]
Washington Irving’s Alhambra, CA Connection
Washington Irving and the Alhambra, CA Connection by Gary Frueholz, Dilbeck Real Estate Alhambra, California’s real estate has a connection to one of America’s best-known early writers, Washington Irving. You can […]
Spokes, Saddles and Cranks
In the Fall of 1981, two 23-year old girlfriends, recent graduates of UC Berkeley, embarked upon a six-week bicycle tour of England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland. Their curiously strong adventures […]