1970s | 1970s
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Jan.11.2012
Growing up in the 1970s has never before been portrayed with such delightful ludicrousness and heartrending tenderness as in Why Aren't You Smiling? When teenage Leonard decides to quit being a Dweeb and instead join the Burnouts, his “good kid” persona is abandoned as he embarks on a comically...
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Dec.30.2011
Being blond and blue-eyed, having a Jewish mother and a Mexican father are more than enough to saddle David Rodríguez with a severe identity problem. Then there are his grandfathers. They didn't object to his parents' marriage on grounds of religion or race. For them it was a matter of...
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Dec.14.2011
She loves him; she loves him not. He loves her, he always will...
One may need to pluck at a daisy chain to keep tabs on YC and Martin and their countless escapades growing up during the time of free love and rock and roll that permeated San Francisco in the 60's and 70's.
Martin and YC's...
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Jun.16.2011
You have an old friend who holds, in amber, all the possibilities of who you were supposed to become. Together, as teenagers, you shared a criminal joy. What happens when you have been looking for her and find her, finally, in later life? You're a lawyer and she has a father on death row. LOLA,...
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Apr.17.2009
THE VAGABOND VIRGINS, Baja California, 1979A Holy Virgin, or a convincing fraud, appears in Mexico, dedicating herself to the overthrow of the corrupt and tyrannical Partido Revolucionario Institutional. And a woman who claims to be the Virgin’s sister brings San Diego law student and private...
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Apr.17.2009
THE DO-RE-MI, a Northern California folk festival, 1972Evergreen is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have...
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Apr.17.2009
THE DO-RE-MI, a Northern California folk festival, 1972Evergreen is a different town than the last time Clifford Hickey visited, only a year ago. Then it was an Eden, a garden of peace and delights, of music and lovely hippies sharing all they had. Now it's the site of a range war. Bikers have...
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Nov.01.2008
THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES WAS CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE!
CHOSEN AS A BEST SUMMER BOOK BY:
THE TODAY SHOW
THE NEW YORK POST
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
COSMO MAGAZINE PICKED IT AS THEIR "SEXY SUMMER READ!"
BARNES AND NOBLE PICKED IT AS ONE OF...
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Sep.17.2008
Gabriel Harkin, the eldest of four children in a working-class family in Northern Ireland, struggles through a loving yet often brutal childhood. It's a turbulent time in Ulster, and in the staunchly Catholic community to which Gabriel belongs, the strict code for belief and behavior is clear. As...
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