John Wilkins is a Senior Adjunct Professor in Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. He is the theater critic at KQED Arts in San Francisco.
John Wilkins
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Writing on Public Books
Roberto Calasso and the Irresistible Art of the Publisher
1 | Advice In judging Roberto Calasso’s brief, elegant book The Art of the Publisher, it might help to list the practical advice Calasso has to offer after 50 years in the trade. Or, if we have ambitions and money to burn, the essential practices necessary for becoming a book publisher, which involves nothing less […]
Stunt Double: Twice Fallen
The wounds of civil wars last. You can forgive a stranger, but family and neighbors, that’s another story. In America, the Confederate flag still raises old myths and divisions. In Algeria, the French Algerians, derisively called pied-noirs, the flesh-and-blood symbol of French Colonial rule (1830–1956), still haunt the land they fought so viciously to keep […]
