Jack Boulware
Jack Boulware runs the newsletter What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize. He was a cofounder and an executive director of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival. He’s currently working on a novel based on his experiences as a travel journalist. He lives in West Marin.

A New Institution on the Corner of Haight and Ashbury
The Counterculture Museum will be a repository for the artifacts that defined the ’60s movement.
May 15, 2025

The Aftertaste of ‘Sideways’
Alexander Payne’s Oscar-winning movie about two wine-soaked buddies on a road trip turns 20 this year. Rex Pickett, who wrote the novel it’s based on, can’t stop writing sequels.
Nov 15, 2024

The Mayor of Broadway
As San Francisco’s North Beach shimmied into the ’60s, press agent “Big” Davey Rosenberg worked overtime to grow clubs like the Condor and stars like Carol Doda.
May 31, 2024

From Bleak to Dark to San Francisco
Marc Maron’s salad days in the doom spiral.
Feb 15, 2024