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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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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