Braverman profiled in Chronicle
San Francisco residents turned to the entertainment section of the Chronicle this morning to find a friendly profile of writer Kate Braverman, whose new book Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles -- subtitled "An accidental memoir" -- characterizes her childhood hometown as "a gulag with palm trees" and a "city of subtle psychological apartheid, of them and us." The SF Weekly reviewed the book last week, strangely drawing the opposite conclusion about its opinion about culture and L.A.
Braverman has been much visible in SF lit circles in the last couple of years, appearing at many readings and starting her own monthly salon, Fusion City, which I visited in November.
She will have a book release party Thursday, Feb. 2 at City Lights in SF, and will be at the B&N on 6th Ave. near 21st St. in NYC on Feb. 9.
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