Illustration by Karen Chan https://thesanfranciscanmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/No-Idea-v3dp.mp3 Audio: Author Christopher Merchant reads. by Christopher Merchant This work of short fiction is adapted from the author’s novel-in-development. Nic worked as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school. Work meant showing up on time with a manageable hangover. Most mornings, he’d wake up, stop hugging himself on the cold […]
Fire in the Sky. Presidio, San Francisco. Photograph by Ashley Kaplan. Photography has been the thread sewing together the different chapters of my life. I was that kid with a camera ever since I got my first Kodak when I was eight years old. It wasn’t until college that I took my first photography class. […]
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Photograph by Jane Ciabattari, courtesy of Grant Faulkner Unlike novels, or even short stories, flash fiction is impatient. “Get on with it,” it says. Exposition is its death knell. It withholds, teases, and entices the reader to enter and then lingers like an all-too-real dream. Microfiction, a subgenre of flash, is normally described as under […]
Photograph by Jack Bober Jack Bober is an ocean photographer from Marin County who focuses on surf in the Bay Area, Southern California, and Hawaii. His work has been featured in Surfline’s Swell Story, the Inertia, Salt Water, and Marin Magazine, and has been selected as a finalist in the National Geographic Student Photo Contest. […]
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Photograph by Diaspora Arts Connection Listen to the curated playlist that accompanies this piece to hear the women of Let Her Sing. “In some ways, it’s the most natural, most legitimate thing, for a woman to sing for her child. And some countries will take the voice of a woman away,” Nazy Kaviani told me. […]
Lydia, a resident of the Wood Street Commons homeless encampment, has participated in organizing efforts to preserve her community. Oakland, like most cities on the West Coast, continues to face a growing housing crisis that has displaced record numbers of people from their homes. Unhoused residents are living outside, either on public land, in city-sanctioned […]
Illustration by Mikiko Takasago A wide picture window overlooking the intersection of Fulton Street and 6th Avenue, double-hung windows on either side, crowned with a graceful arch of three glass panes. This was my favorite thing about my 1920s-era Inner Richmond apartment, the one persistent image in a catalog of fading memories. From my vantage […]
Home Magazine Issue 4 of The San Franciscan $10.00 Issue 4 of The San Franciscan (Print) Magazine Details: Includes work from 31 talented creatives based in and around the Bay Area Features fiction, poetry, art, cartoons, photography, nonfiction, profiles, personal essays, interviews, and even a locally-themed crossword Perfect-bind book with matte cover Limited edition print […]
Amanda Legge (she/her) is cofounder and creative director of The San Franciscan. She grew up in the Bay Area and works in fintech. Outside of work the only hobby she has is this magazine. She can be reached at [email protected] Erica Messner (she/her) is cofounder and editor in chief of The San Franciscan. On a […]
Illustration by Amanda Legge I’m waiting in line to get some eggs and coffee at a cafe in the Mission. It’s one of those younger businesses on the outskirts of gentrification, the forward guard. The line stretches far out the door, but it moves fast. Nevertheless, I overhear fifteen minutes of a strained conversation between […]
Daniel Burnham’s approach to city planning can help us recognize the potential of the Great Highway. Photograph by Kevin Hou. Perhaps the ghosts of Playland had gotten to me in those final moments before sunset. Or maybe it was just the public-space possibilities of the Great Highway, expansive and clearly on display in every direction. […]
Illustration by Tom Fritsche “Who?” “Agatha Bacelar, she’s primarying Nancy Pelosi. You want to write about her?” I take the assignment and find myself at some cocktail-party-type deal at an apartment I couldn’t afford if I robbed a pharaoh. After briefly saying hello and exchanging info, Bacelar texts me a few days later that she’s […]