CASA Court Appointed Special Advocate Andrew Vachs Resource Page For Parents and Children 826 Valencia A Cool tutoring center in San Francisco Alison Clement A very nice lady and author of Pretty Is As Pretty Does JT Leroy There are people that have said Tom Kealey is the greatest short story writer of our generation. Other's have called him good looking, a one man caberet, the greatest thing in fried food since the donut. Click here for his website. Anne Ursu The wonderful author of The Disapparation of James and Spilling Clarence. Craig Clevenger Is anybody cooler than Craig Clevenger? Is any book more profoundly hip than The Contortionist's Handbook? Probably not. Lydia Lunch Performance artist, punk rock icon, writer. Lydia is awesome, political, and doesnşt stand for anything from anybody. Sheşs doing the author photos for my next book. The greatest website of any writer I have ever known, Brian Gage is the author of Snark Inc. A hysterical children's sendup of corporate America. Go buy it from his site. You will literally not believe this website. Dan Kimberg Ben Greenman Von Do OK, really an artist, but I'm putting him in the writers sections because he's a revolutionary David Rees Adam Johnson finally has a website and a great new novel, Parasites Like Us. Lou Krieger One of the best poker writers on the web. A regular contributor to all the top poker publications. Author of Poker For Dummies and many other books on poker. And a nice guy who sent me a nice letter about my writing. Mong Lan An emerging poet at Stanford University, Mong Lan's poetry has been chosen for inclusion in The Best American Poetry. Her book Song of the Cicadas was awarded the Juniper Prize. Creative Writing at Stanford MacAdam/Cage My Publisher Mistress Morgana Professional Dominatrix, sex educator, lefty politico, not necessarily in that order. Not necessarily not in that order. McSweeney's My Other Publisher. My next book, The Night Face Up, will be co-published by McSweeney's and MacAdam/Cage. http://mojo.mephistoweb.de Fascinating site on travel within Iraq Vocal Disorder My friend's band. Great music, free downloads. Kind of a Radiohead, Elliott Smith kind of thing. My friend Hart, who can only be described as a very nice insane person, asked that I post a link to his live journal The Believer I love this magazine A mediocre poker player but a good friend, Geoff Brock has recently finished translating a book of poetry by Cesare Pavese titled Dissafections. It's really an amazing book. Emporium by Adam Johnson. Adam is one hell of a writer and this book of short stories, many already published in Esquire, Harpers, and The Paris Review, is going to be an instant classic. Adam plays Euchre as well as he writes and we have a tendancy to mop the floor with Otis and Kealey in our Wednesday night games. The Shrine At Alta Mira by John L'Heureux The Heart Is Decietful Above All Things by JT Leroy The Australia Stories By Todd James Pierce Rampage By Susan Taylor Chehak things i hate and websites that do something about it SUVs The guys at Cartalk are my new heroes for their campaigns against big, ugly, polluting SUVs Hummers When you drive a Hummer smart people laugh at you. Exploitation I'm a globalist but that doesn't mean I don't believe in laws to protect workers. The measure to mandate fairtrade coffee in Berkeley rocks. Private Prisons The Christian Right George W. Bush Snarky Book Reviewers Homophobes Inconsiderate cellphone users Lies About Iraq From the Right and the Left Adobe reader required