On The Talk Of The Nation my interview with host Neal Conan was surprisingly cheerful considering the subject was eight young people who died in a fire. The callers, both adults who had been travelers and kids who were traveling, talked not about danger, but about the joy of pure freedom and few responsibilities.
Yesterday ProPublica, the independently funded investigative reporting organization featured my SF magazine story on its front page as the editor’s pick of the day.
Eight months in the making, War of Values reveals how the city’s dominant landlords, the Lembi family of CitiApartments fame, bought up every building they could get their hands on, from the Tenderloin’s rattiest dumps to Nob Hill’s ritziest penthouses…