![]() ![]() (For the record, the city is more like 47 square miles, but who”s going to stand in the way of a little poetic license). In his subtitle, Kamiya evokes San Francisco”s iconic number, a reference to the Gold Rush of 1849, a certain football team and the often-claimed square mileage of San Francisco. The book”s title is taken from a line by poet George Sterling, who was a major figure in San Francisco bohemian circles a century ago. The John Muir-like exhilaration of wandering through this vast terrain of fascinating vistas and corners is really the joy of the book.” “Every day I would wander through some new stretch of the city. He”ll be at Capitola Book Café tonight to discuss his new book. The result is his new book, “Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco,” which weaves personal storytelling and regional history to create a granular and wide-sweeping portrait of one of the world”s most fascinating cities. ![]() ![]() His first order of business was to learn “every inch” of Golden Gate Park, and then he turned his attention to the rest of the fabled City By the Bay. I could start fluttering around like an iron-jointed butterfly.” “But when I got my knees fixed, it opened up the city to me. “Before I got my knees replaced, it was just getting increasingly painful and there was a certain amount of stoicism just getting one place to another,” he said. When longtime San Francisco journalist Gary Kamiya got knee-replacement surgery, suddenly the city - his city - was a new place. ![]()
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