Posted by Jack on 22nd September 2009
For three years my pal Silke Tudor and I worked almost full-time on an oral history of punk rock in the Bay Area. We interviewed nearly 300 people, from Green Day, Rancid and Operation Ivy, on back to Maximum RocknRoll magazine, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Avengers, Crime, and the Nuns.
The book officially was released September 29, and we’ve been doing lots of cool parties and interviews and podcasts. Check out our brand-new website for all the details, including tons of extra images and chapters!
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Posted by Jack on 24th December 2007
Fray publishing, 2008.
A new quarterly from San Francisco’s Fray storytelling community.
“Fray began as a website. We presented individually designed, true first-person stories. Each one ended with a question that prompted the audience to tell their stories, too. Then it evolved into a series of live storytelling events, Fray Days and Fray Cafes, that took place all over the world, attended by thousands of people. And now Fray is evolving again – this time into a quarterly series of independently produced books. Each one will be on a central storytelling theme, and include personal stories, articles, and original art. They will come out quarterly. They will be awesome.”
Buy copies here.
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Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
Published by Feral House, 1997. This was my first book, a socio-anthropological dig into America’s heterosexual revolution. The one I missed. Includes the histories of waterbeds, hot tubs, communes, nudist resorts, swingers, and all sorts of adult and mainstream pop culture. Tons of rare images.
* NOTE: This book is currently out of print, but copies are still floating around online here and here.
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Posted by Jack on 20th April 2006
St. Martin’s, 2000. An illustrated guidebook that’s really more of a tear through the last 50 years of San Francisco history. Chapters on sex, death, celebrities, sleazy bars, strange museums, and odd inventions. Plenty of photos, addresses, and contact information. Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and fine bookstores everywhere.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
Public House Press, 2004. This anthology is a collection of authors who have done readings at San Francisco’s Edinburgh Castle pub over the years. Featuring writings from Irvine Welsh, Mary Roach, Po Bronson, Noah Hawley, Peter Plate, Alan Black, and myself, among many others. Includes bonus audio CD of Welsh. Available through Amazon.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
Chronicle Books, 2005. This is a cool new comics anthology about our national psyche called Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America.
Artists include Peter Kuper, Gilbert Hernandez, Jessica Abel, Pete Bagge, Richard Sala, Brian Biggs, and Lloyd Dangle. Edited by Pete Friedrich. I wrote the intro essay about the West Coast. Order from Amazon here.
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Posted by Jack on 13th April 2006
Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and everything in between), Disinformation, 2005.
This massive, oversized anthology features a panoply of sexperts, everyone from prostitutes to professors, legends to newcomers, sexual revolutionaries to sexologists and beyond, providing a varied and unexpected look at sex, challenging our notions of what is possible and in turn exciting, enervating, frightening, and freaking us out.
Essays and writings from Salvador Dali, Tristan Taormino, Susie Bright, Carole Queen, Violet Blue, Paul Krassner, Cecilia Tan, Annalee Newitz, and myself. Edited by Russ Kick. Order from Amazon here.
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For three years my pal Silke Tudor and I worked almost full-time on an oral history of punk rock in the Bay Area. We interviewed nearly 300 people, from Green Day, Rancid and Operation Ivy, on back to Maximum RocknRoll magazine, Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Avengers, Crime, and the Nuns.
