Contra Costa Times - 10/12/06 (original article here)

…ROCK AND LITERATURE have been making friends lately … witness all of the novelists writing rock ‘n’ roll (and as we rock ‘n’ roll writers like to say, if it means the door’s open for us to write novels, then we’re all for it!). Last week, San Francisco’s annual Litquake Festival opened its festivities with authors Dave Eggers (a well-known rock superfan) and Frank Portman (also known in his musical guise from the East Bay’s Mr. T Experience) with honorary Bay Area musicians such as Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, and the Show’s friend, Chuck Prophet, sharing the stage.

This Saturday night, the festival wraps with the Litcrawl, authors from all walks of literature and life reading from their works in venues all along Valencia Street, and they’ve even given us music writers a stage. Join the Bay Area’s Dead expert Blair Jackson, along with Peter Ellenby, Beatles scribe Richie Unterberger, hip-hop’s Tamara Palmer, and me, reading from my novel for young rockers, “Starry Eyes,” at Amnesia, 853 Valencia St. in San Francisco. Reading starts at 7:15 p.m. Go to www.litquake.org for all the details.