Geoffrey DunnSF Station Writer |
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| | Where does a writer begin a story?
My friend James D. (“Jim”) Houston, a mentor and colleague, a literary father figure and cultural signpost—for Santa Cruz and California, for the entire Pacific Rim—is no longer here to answer that question, a circumstance that at this moment remains difficult to grasp. He has seemingly always been here, steady and true, a quiet, dignified presence on the local literary landscape, and always with a helping hand for young writers, for his friends, for anyone clenched in struggle with the muse. More » |  |
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