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This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

Updated: Sep 12, 2024 11:42
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I’ve got some awesome news!

We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available and it’s FREE!

You can download your free copy right here.

The lineup of 19 authors and poets in this publication is really quite incredible. They include the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, a Pulitzer Prize winner, the co-founder of Litquake, and winners of the National Book Critic Circle Award, the American Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and SO many other fucking awesome accolades. Every single one of them is a star in their own right. You can see the list of contributors at the end of this post.

The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco will be available for FREE at dozens of cafes, bars, bookshops, and art spaces around San Francisco. We’re currently finalizing the list and starting Monday, 7/15 you’ll be able to pop by and get hard copies of the magazine. Speaking of hard copies:

Find out about the huge release party right here.

Here’s the map of all the places where you can get the magazine (and don’t give us shit for not being further out in the avenues. We emailed over 100 different locations. We really tried):

The essays and poems in The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco are a chorus of voices singing joyously, and plaintively, about a beloved place where they can be themselves the most, that somehow, someway exalts their humanity.

The words in these pages are a taste of what it is to live in San Francisco.

Edited by:
Charlie Jane Anders and Oscar Villalon

Cover Art:
Paul Madonna

Layout and Design: 
Afreen Azad

Published by Broke-Ass Stuart

With generous support from Manny Yekutiel and the Civic Joy Fund

You can download your free copy right here.

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.