Anisse Gross

Oct 11, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Iris Jamahl Dunkle |Anisse Gross

“Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb” by Iris Jamahl Dunkle Photo: University of California Press Like many Americans, biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s introduction to the Dust Bowl was shaped by reading John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Her grandmother, who lived through the storms, dismissed it for depicting migrants as “helpless victims.” So when Dunkle discovered another Dust Bowl novel, Sanora Babb’s “Whose Names Are Unknown,” she was moved to find a humanized portrayal...

Jan 4, 2024 | altaonline.com | Anisse Gross

Michelle Tea still remembers hanging out in the early 2000s with fellow writer Tara Jepsen, who was a nanny for a young boy at the time. Every time the trio would walk by Gypsy Rosalie’s Wigs and Vintage in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, the boy became totally transfixed by the wigs in the window. Jepsen told his mother, and she suggested they invite a drag queen to the kid’s birthday party.