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Sep.23.2010
(Originally published on Huffington Post, September 23rd, 2010.)
Recently the Bay Area was abuzz about something that happened at 49er football training camp. Vernon Davis apparently got in Michael Crabtree's face, allegedly about his apathetic performance in preseason games. They got het up...
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May.05.2009
Hi everyone and sorry for the long-delayed entry. I've been busy trying to make a living - not the easiest thing for a freelancer in this economy! But now I must pause to boast about a Very Cool Development: the re-release of an anthology I edited in 2005 called Single Woman of a Certain Age:...
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Nov.21.2008
There's a very cool new website for women now in the 'net universe: Betty Confidential. It's cleverly written, non-dogmatic, an interesting mix of popular culture, politics, arts, books, stuff for moms and single ladies alike. I love it, and look at it nearly every day. (My one complaint is that...
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Oct.27.2008
For 24 years, I was mute at this time of year. I had to hold my fingers crossed - so tightly they turned blue - rather than speak my opinion, attend a rally, march during a protest. Because I was, after all, a member of the Fourth Estate - banned from participating in anything resembling a CAUSE....
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Oct.16.2008
Talk about the best-laid plans! I had intended to blog a couple of times during Litquake week but... well... was simply too INSANE to be able to sit down long enough! As co-artistic director, my duties this year were less of the menial variety and more of the figurehead variety - introducing events...
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Sep.23.2008
I'm not sure anyone can read to the end of this, but I thought I'd paste the entire Litquake schedule here, sort of as an excuse for why I have not been more active lately! Litquake is my baby - founded almost ten years ago with a handful of other writers, for fans of the written word in the SF Bay...
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Aug.17.2008
As always, I'm late on the draw here. But I wanted to let you know that a week or so ago, I had a fun post on HuffPo, the Mecca of great blogging. It dealt with my thoughts and feelings (and extreme neurosis) about someone nice I was (ahem) dating for a few months. And although that has now...
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Apr.23.2008
It's SHAMEFUL that it's been so long since I blogged in this space! Call it circuit overload due to paperback release (i.e. Good Excuse #516, right up there with pulling a hamstring in Zoomba cardio class - something I've also done lately) or the general need to write for money-making purposes, but...
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Feb.19.2008
I went to Vancouver, BC, for a reading recently, and am still trying to wrap my brain around an event I attended there. My two hostess friends there, Fanny Kiefer (a renowned TV interviewer) and Cindy Grauer (who basically knows everyone in power and is therefore a powerhouse herself) invited me to...
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Jan.29.2008
I have been involved with Red Room since March of last year, lining up authors for web pages, and I have never been so proud of this organization as I am today. What an outpouring of wonderful support for Patry Francis! I'm also happy to have played a small part in this effort: my friend Victoria...
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Jan.17.2008
It’s come to my attention that a very small number of authors don’t understand the concept of self-promotion. (“But I’m a genius! The world should beat a path to my door, dammit!”) Or, they have so many millions of dollars stuffed under their box springs that they don’t have to do it anymore. I...
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Dec.21.2007
I can’t be positive, but I’m pretty sure Bruce Springsteen had me thrown out of the private pool room at Tosca.
It was Sept. 2004, and I was in San Francisco’s famed Bohemian café with Bruuuuuuuce, a gi-normous bodyguard hired by who-knows-who, and Sean Penn, whom I’d been assigned to interview...
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Dec.10.2007
A writer friend said the other day that he wondered why writers would blog. “I mean, they write for a living,” he said. “Why would they want to write when they don’t have to? Or are not getting paid for it? It seems pretty pointless.”
My problem with blogging has never been so much about not...
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Dec.07.2007
Title: A SENSE OF THE WORLD: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler Author: Jason Roberts Short Description: a fabulous biography by my friend Jason Roberts, it’s won huge accolades Synopsis: He was known simply as the Blind Traveler, a solitary, sightless adventurer who fought the...
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Sep.24.2007
My upcoming work titled "Valencia '73: How I Turned 21 in Spain, Learned About Sex and Life, Dodged Interpol and Guardia Civil, Managed to Pass Art History...and Discovered I Was a Writer" is the story of the year I turned 21 in Spain and got mixed up with both student radicals and the Mafia.
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About Jane
Jane Ganahl has been a journalist, editor, author, consultant and community organizer in San Francisco for twenty-five years. She is the author of the novelized memoir, Naked on the Page: the Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife (Viking), which has been...