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 week 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 weeks 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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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Jessica Zack
On the final page of Kaveh Akbar's 2024 novel "Martyr! ," the first person he thanks in his Acknowledgements for helping him complete his debut work of fiction is "Tommy Orange: bandmate."It's something of an inside joke, because neither are musicians. Akbar is an accomplished poet-turned-novelist who teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa, while Orange is the Oakland author whose debut novel "There There" established him as one of the country's leading contemporary fiction writers.
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1 month ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Laila Lalami |Jessica Zack
Laila Lalami’s disquieting new book “The Dream Hotel” takes place in Southern California in the year 2039. It’s just far enough into the future that Americans have had decades to grow accustomed to the creep of technological surveillance into every corner of their lives — even their dreams. “Entire generations have never known life without surveillance,” writes the Moroccan American author, whose 2015 historical novel “The Moor’s Account” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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2 months ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Bill Gates |Jessica Zack
Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates is out with his first three-part autobiography “Source Code: My Beginnings.” Photo: Bill Gates isn’t prone to nostalgia. The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist has built a career and legacy on always looking forward, toward breakthroughs and solutions.
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The 11-yr-old in me was beyond giddy over this assignment. @judyblume, thank you for the @sfchronicle interview - and for being a trailblazer & sane voice amid those who still fear what our kids read! @Lionsgate @PrimeVideo https://t.co/sZp0NTrtnM
"I personally went vegan in 1987, and the vegan world then was almost exclusively populated by punk rock kids." -I spoke to Moby @thelittleidiot for @sfchronicle about his doc "Punk Rock Vegan" - now free to all on @YouTube: https://t.co/KkkHewxZBC
I've been off Twitter for a while but want to get the word out about SF artist Mobina Nouri's performance "The Wind in My Hair" tomorrow (1pm SAT) in solidarity w Iran's protestors @legionofhonor! @AlinejadMasih My @sfchronicle interview: https://t.co/NZvWLNvnKm