Of all the places to hold the coveted title of ‘best third places,’ San Francisco has to be at the top of the heap. While London has its p...

Writing my latest novel ‘Playground for the Devil’ began, like all the rest, as an exercise in blindly following my instincts and believin...

Waves of bohemian creative-type characters, with Kerouac, Ginsburg and Burroughs leading the charge, had washed over San Francisco a year o...