Jan Beatty – At Moe’s

At Moe’s I was reading at Moe’s on Telegraph, legendary Berkeley bookstore praised by The San Francisco Chronicle: “India has the Taj Mahal, Berkeley has Moe’s Books.” There was a Beyonce concert in San Francisco that night, so the crowd was thin but rabid with book buying, and the magical Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash […]

Jan Beatty – Kat Talks the War Inside Her

Kat Talks the War Inside Her              She says: I found the connection—River was shooting heroin, which, if you think about it, is a river of chocolate or maybe it’s one of the golden tickets to the factory, and Johnny was really Charlie, not the original Willy. Kat not taking her pills again, she wants […]