Your next recommended read is Duffy Jennings’ Reporter’s Note Book, A San Francisco Chronicle Journalist’s Diary of the Shocking Seventies. “The decade from late 1968 to the end of 1978 was as lawless as any in modern Northern California history,” Duffy writes in “Reporter’s prologue and then he lists the many events over the decade… Read More Reporter’s Note Book by Duffy Jennings

As pentimento is to a painting (from the Italian from the verb pentirsi, meaning to repent), palimpsest is to literature (from the Latin palimpsestus, which derives from the Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “again scraped”)). Palimpsest is a compound word that literally means “scraped clean and ready to be used again”. A pentimento is a visible… Read More Palimpsest by Charles A. Fracchia