In the end, Kamiya has written a fitting ode to an exceptional city. Also impressive is the author’s uncanny grasp of the bay’s natural history and the way that the landscape continues to shape the lives of current San Franciscans. It is the other stories that truly impress-including the historical ones about the city’s founding and its original Native American inhabitants. Though Kamiya puts his own spin on these tales, they seem all too familiar. Gary Kamiya 'Cool Gray City of Love' at the San Francisco Public Library - YouTube Chapter 41 opens at 1712 Fillmore Street, with Gary Kamiya describing the neighborhood as he.
He includes chapters about the AIDS crisis, the Beat Generation, dive bars, and theaters, sprinkling in references to the city’s counter-culture revolution, literary legacy, and dot-com booms and busts.
It doesn’t come as much surprise that Kamiya, a former culture critic and book editor at the San Francisco Examiner and cofounder of, writes insightfully about San Francisco’s cultural and artistic heritage. Bloomsbury USA August 2013 On Sale: Aug400 pages ISBN: 1608199606 EAN: 9781608199600 Kindle: B00D78R550 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List. Cool Gray City Of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco, by Gary Kamiya: Both San. In the introduction, Kamiya calls this work “a love letter to the place in the world that means the world to me.” It’s an apt description, because these 49 vignettes are written in a confessional first-person tone that invokes a conversation between two old friends: Kamiya and the city he has called home for over 40 years. Her forthright memoir celebrates their love while reminding us of the pain endured by families left behind.
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