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Your Golden Sun Still Shines: San Francisco Personal Histories and Small Fictions
Current tales from the fabled City that Knows How viewed through a timeless lens of opposition, resilience, and redemption. Artist evictions, tech invasions―where will it end? San Francisco stories from visionary voices wrest wisdom from chaos and channel boundless energy into artful narratives, demonstrating that grace and resilience are as much a measure of the city’s legacy as a determination of its future. Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuing legacy as home and beacon to the literary vanguard, situated at the edge of the world. A fourth generation San Franciscan, editor Denise Sullivan writes about music, arts, and culture and her hometown. She is the author of five titles, including Keep on Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop (Chicago Review Press).
160 pages, Paperback
Published October 17, 2017
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January 30, 2018
A wistful anthology of a bygone San Francisco. The stories hark back to golden ages of life in SF, when young kids, sans parents, would take MUNI for a quarter and when taking a yellow car across town meant sticking an arm out versus poking a magic rectangular device. It's very "I remember when" and it's neat to read about a few times but after the fifth or so story, it loses its spark .
Cities evolve and if they don't, they die. While I too mourn some facets of SF life from past decades and even from the past five years, I wouldn't want my city to stall and be lost in the past. I've seen stalled cities — Yaounde, Cameroon being the starkest example — and it's sad to see a place with so much potential have so many persistent troubles and lack of change. That's Africa and not here in the States, but we can look at Dayton, OH or even Detroit, MI for examples of the death of cities in our own backyard. Detroit is trying to re-invent itself and SF has been re-inventing itself since its conception as a boom or bust gold rush town. Now we have boom or bust tech start-ups. The ambitions are the same but the people are different. And while the changes to our cityscape, housing prices, and communities are many, the spirit of SF will live on, way past the time when the tech craze (or the next recession) departs our storied hills.
Cities evolve and if they don't, they die. While I too mourn some facets of SF life from past decades and even from the past five years, I wouldn't want my city to stall and be lost in the past. I've seen stalled cities — Yaounde, Cameroon being the starkest example — and it's sad to see a place with so much potential have so many persistent troubles and lack of change. That's Africa and not here in the States, but we can look at Dayton, OH or even Detroit, MI for examples of the death of cities in our own backyard. Detroit is trying to re-invent itself and SF has been re-inventing itself since its conception as a boom or bust gold rush town. Now we have boom or bust tech start-ups. The ambitions are the same but the people are different. And while the changes to our cityscape, housing prices, and communities are many, the spirit of SF will live on, way past the time when the tech craze (or the next recession) departs our storied hills.
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