From one of America's great writers, this delightful collection - the first of its kind - contains twenty-three adventurous tales set in the San Francisco Bay Area. If San Francisco has captured the world's imagination through the hardboiled stories of Dashiell Hammett, the prose and poetry of Jack Kerouac and his fellow Beats, through Orson Welles' Lady From Shanghai and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, it is as a romantic city of vast suspension bridges and foggy back alleys, not as the wild west of Jack London's day. Pre-quake San Francisco was a tough town, and Jack London - hobo, sailor,...

CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 4 is our most international to date, featuring writing from Mexico, China, Russia, Italy, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, the USA, and Australia. Highlights include the Crate-Diggers' Symposium - in-depth interviews with America's leading rare music anthologists - and a series of tributes to the late Seamus Heaney. We have a newly translated short story by the Mexican writer Juan Villoro and new fiction by Clive Sinclair and Elisabeth Murray; with poetry by David Howard, Hong Ying,...