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Book Review, California, History, LGBT, Noir, Non-fiction

Season of the Witch by David Talbot

What struck me, most about David Talbot’s history of  San Francisco was just how violent the times were. Season of the Witch concentrates on the years between the Summer of Love, 1968, and the AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s.  The 1970’s are largely remembered today for disco and very, shall we say, creative fashions but this was a period of violent upheaval in America, certainly … Continue reading Season of the Witch by David Talbot

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Book Review, California, History, LGBT, Non-fiction

Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco by Josh Sides

Turns out, I spent my youth in San Francisco while it was in the midst of a sexual revolution and didn’t even know it. Josh Sides opens the epilogue of Erotic City with a quote from Joan Didion, whom I have also been reading a lot of lately. “Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago,” Joan Didion wrote in … Continue reading Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco by Josh Sides

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