The SF Examiner, bless its heart, puts the "literary" in "hot literary gossip." P.J. Cokery writes:

Jerry Matters, who lives in his own Pacific Heights down in Costa Rica, has just completed reading all of Sean Wilsey's "Oh the Glory of it All." He has now, with the aid of James Joyce, produced a one-sentence summary of the 496-page memoir of life in the local heights: "They lived, they laughed, they loathed and they left." Voracious reader Jerry is quick to credit Joyce for the original version of his précis, which occurs in Finnegans Wake, with one telling, deliciously obscure Joycean twist. Joyce—and isn't Bloomsday, June 16, just around the bend? All hail the master!—wrote, "they lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin." "Forsin" is an ancient word meaning, "burdened by sin." But of course there is no sin in San Francisco.

The audio version, unabridged, of Wilsey's book is out, with the narration done by a 38-year-old Shakespearean actor and one-time skateboarding kid out of Southern California, the solid Scott Brick. Brick has narrated more than 200 audio books. His specialty had been science fiction.

You'd be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't check out Brick's smokin' photo. Which reminds me that you ravenous alligators keep searching for "Sean Wilsey photo," to put up in your locker next to Ricky Schroder, no doubt, so here! Here it is! Little Sean, Al, and Pat Montandon, from the Chronicle's nifty gallery. Sean with the Pope (scroll down), from, yes, Children as the Peacemakers Foundation. And not at all least, contemporary Wilsey from Newsday, in a photo taken by my former colleague Ari "Junior" Mintz, one of the sweetest guys around. An adjective also frequently applied to Wilsey, which must have made Ari's sometimes trying job much easier.

Here's a question: Is Oh the Glory of It All a bad Father's Day gift, or not?

Almost completely Lost in the Fog [SF Examiner]

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