Jessica Zack
Contributor at San Francisco Chronicle
Freelance Writer at Datebook SF
My beats: film, books, culture, ideas. My bylines: regularly for SF Chronicle and Alta. Stanford alum. AWFJ member. Late or never adopter.
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1 month ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack
Alison Bechdel’s latest book is “Spent,” a comic novel examining money, privilege and late-stage capitalism. Photo: Courtesy Alison BechdelIn one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic novel “Spent,” the writer/cartoonist has drawn herself — or, more precisely, a loosely fictionalized protagonist named Alison — pulling Karl Marx’s “Das Capital” off her home bookshelf.
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2 months ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack
Beatrice Thornton, from left, Charlotte Beck and Renaikha Cruz Fermin observe Beck’s developed roll of film outside of Small Works in San Francisco on April 5, 2025. Thornton is an Oakland-based photographer who teaches workshops on developing rolls of film with a homemade chemistry process derived from locally foraged plants.
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2 months ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack
A still from “In Waves and War.” Photo: Courtesy Bonni Cohen and Jon ShenkWhen San Francisco filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk first met U.S. Navy SEAL Marcus Capone, who would become one of the main subjects of their powerful new documentary “In Waves and War,” they remember feeling like “we were watching Superman walk into the room,” says Cohen. Capone is a brawny, former Division I football quarterback at Southern Illinois University, with tattooed barrel arms and a magnetic smile.
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2 months ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack
Dr. Jessica Zitter, left, and Chaplain Betty Clark walk the halls of the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital in Oakland.
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2 months ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Sameer Pandya |Jessica Zack
Sameer Pandya is the author of “Our Beautiful Boys.” Photo: Author portrait by Brett Hall JonesWhile Sameer Pandya was writing his latest novel “Our Beautiful Boys,” he knew he wanted to somehow work in one of his favorite photos that’s been sitting on his desk for years.. It’s a faded snapshot taken by Pandya’s maternal grandfather of Mahatma Gandhi walking barefoot down a dusty Indian road beside a boy who’s beaming in admiration at the living paragon of nonviolence.
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