Out in the Bay

‘Success’ and a Faun’s Afternoon. Richard Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator, amuses us while musing on French fauns, ghosts of all-but-forgotten New York cruising spots, and the cultural figures he’s memorialized or channeled in verse – including painter Alice Neel, dancer Isadora Duncan and Madame Charles de Gaulle.  Now in his eighties, this “living legend” shares his poems, tells how translating can be erotic and reflects on gay life before many of us were born. 

Have you ever been having an adult beverage in your favorite bar and got irritated about the smoke coming in from the smokers on the patio or sidewalk? The rates of LGBT people are almost twice that of the mainstream population. Marilyn talks with Brian Davis, from "Freedom from Tobacco," a project of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and Rachel Nolan, his associate. They say it's time for bar owners to stop enabling the smokers and endangering the public. The show airs at 7:00 pm Pacific Thursdays  http://www.fftsf.org/ 

"Funny, poignant, and erotic," says one reviewer about "Faun," the new novel by Trebor Healey.   "A Horse Named Sorrow," his second new novel, has been called "sexy, cinematic." Marilyn talks with him about the new work, what drives his passion for writing sexy, emotional stories, and his San Francisco roots.