uuuh .... is there a possibility to get the below in more
legible format? Sorry for being a bother ...

Wolfgang 

(active member, Denzlingen VFD, and still gloating over the
idea of Tom Sawyer, fireman ...)


On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:31:37 -0800
 Richard Reineccius <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A favorite librarian in San Francisco alerted me to this
> book, just after m=
> idnight, and sent this column from the Rupert Murdoch Bay
> Area flagship dai=
> ly - San Jose Mercury-News. The other books may interest
> some of you.=0A(fo=
> r the graphics, log MERCURYNEWS.COM)=0AOf course, the
> other Tom Sawyer & Tw=
> ain story was that a drinking buddy in North Beach &
> Downtown SF had the na=
> me Tom Sawyer. That one later opened a small wine & more
> store called "The =
> Original Tom Sawyer Spirits Shop"=0A=0A-Richard R, in San
> Francisco. =A0=A0=
> =A0 =0A*****************************=0A=0AESPECIALLY FOR
> SF BAY AREA TWAIN =
> FANS:=0A=0ABooks=A0- San Jose Mercury-News=A0=A0
> =0AGeorgia Rowe: Where Mar=
> k Twain met Tom Sawyer=0A=0ABy Georgia Rowe=A0
> Correspondent=A0=A0=A0mercur=
> ynews.com=A0 Posted: 12/06/2012 12:00:00 AM
> PST=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A=
> =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Click to enlarge=A0=A0=A0
> =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=
>  =0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Cover of "Black Fire:
> The True Story of t=
> he Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious... ( Crown
> )=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=
> =A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 Tom Sawyer and
> Mark Twain meet in S=
> an Francisco in "Black Fire," Robert Graysmith's
> fascinating account of tha=
> t city in the 19th century. =0A=0AOther highlights among
> this month's new r=
> eleases by Bay Area authors=A0=A0=A0 include fiction,
> poetry, a study of lo=
> ve from the French point of view and a book of images now
> in a time capsule=
>  orbiting the Earth.=0A=0A=A0=A0=A0 "Black Fire: The True
> Story of the Orig=
> inal Tom Sawyer -- and of the Mysterious Fires That
> Baptized Gold Rush-Era =
> San Francisco" by Robert=0AGraysmith (Crown, $26, 288
> pages). Before Tom Sa=
> wyer was a fictional hero, he was a real-life one -- an
> 18-year-old "torch =
> boy" who raced ahead of San Francisco's volunteer fire
> brigade, carrying to=
> rches to light the way. This intriguing history by Bay
> Area journalist and =
> author Graysmith ("Zodiac") documents the fires, set by a
> mysterious arsoni=
> st known as "The=0ALightkeeper," which burned in the city
> six times between=
>  1849 =A0=A0=A0 and '51. A decade later, Mark Twain --
> then a reporter for =
> the city's Morning Daily Call -- met Sawyer in a San
> Francisco steam bath. =
> Graysmith, whose drawings illustrate the book, links the
> people, places and=
>  events that led Twain to write his first
> book.=0A=0AOTHER BOOKS NEW BY THE=
>  SAN FRANCISCO BAY=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The Last
> Pictures" by Trevor Pagl=
> en (University of California =A0=A0=A0 Press, $27.95, 208
> pages). Every art=
> ist hopes to create works that =A0=A0=A0 will endure, but
> UC Berkeley's Pag=
> len aimed high with "The Last Pictures." The
> artist/scholar compiled a coll=
> ection of 100 black-and-white photos that were etched on
> a disc and sent in=
> to orbit aboard the EchoStar XVI satellite last month.
> Expected to circle t=
> he Earth for 4.5 billion years, the images in this unique
> time capsule refl=
> ect art, nature, technology, political movements and
> views of space from Ea=
> rth.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "How the French Invented
> Love: Nine Hundred Y=
> ears of Passion and Romance" by Marilyn Yalom (Harper
> Perennial, $15.99, 41=
> 6 pages). Do the French understand love better than the
> rest of us? Yalom, =
> a professor of=0AFrench and senior scholar at Stanford's
> Clayman Institute =
> for Gender Research, suggests that they do. Exploring key
> events in literat=
> ure, philosophy, art and drama, she traces the history of
> l'amour from 12th=
> -century courtly love to contemporary films by Claude
> Lelouch. In chapters =
> on Moli=E8re, George Sand and Alfred de Musset, Simone de
> Beauvoir and Jean=
> -Paul Sartre, Yalom makes her case with considerable
> insight.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =
> =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The
> Selected Writings of Cu=
> rzio Malaparte" adapted and translated by Walter Murch
> (Counterpoint, $24, =
> 144 pages). Murch, a Marin-based film editor and sound
> designer who=A0=A0=
> =A0 earned Academy Awards for his work on "Apocalypse
> Now"=A0=A0=A0 and "Th=
> e English Patient," makes his mark as a translator in
> this volume of short =
> works by Italian author Curzio Malaparte.=0AAs a
> journalist, Malaparte wrot=
> e from the front lines of World War II; poet Robert Hass
> has called him "on=
> e of the most startling and unexpected chroniclers of the
> violence of the 2=
> 0th century," adding that Murch's translations are
> "tone-perfect."=0A=A0=A0=
> =A0 =0A"Nearly Nowhere" by Summer Brenner (PM Press,
> $15.95, 173 pages). Ge=
> orgia-born, Bay Area-based Brenner, whose earlier books
> include the noir th=
> riller "I-5," returns with this relentlessly paced novel,
> whichopens in New=
>  Mexico. Kate, an artist, and her teenage daughter, Ruby,
> are just scraping=
>  by, when the arrival of a troubled drifter turns their
> lives upside down. =
> Robbery and murder lead to the wilds of Idaho, with the
> final showdown invo=
> lving a gang of Neo-Nazi survivalists. "Nearly Nowhere"
> exerts a powerful g=
> rip right to the end.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A"I Saw Zombies
> Eating Santa Claus: A B=
> reathers Christmas Carol" by S.G. Browne (Gallery Books,
> $14.99, 199 pages)=
> . Andy Warner's been held captive for a year in a zombie
> research facility =
> in Portland, Ore. Disguised as Santa, he breaks free --
> and thus begins the=
>  newest chapter in the satirical "Breathers" saga by San
> Francisco's Browne=
> . Hilarious, horrifying and just in time for the
> holidays, it's a must for =
> anyone who can't get enough of the
> undead.=0A=0ASHOWTIME:=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=
> =A0=A0 michael, michael, michael:=0A=A0=A0=A0 Mrs.
> Dalloway's presents "Thr=
> ee Michaels," with Michael=0A=A0=A0=A0 Chabon, Michael
> Pollan and Michael L=
> ewis, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., in=0A=A0=A0=A0 Berkeley's Roda
> Theatre, www.mrsda=
> lloways.com,=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0AThe Top Ten: 2012 was a great
> year for Bay Area=
>  authors. Here are 10 of the year's finest, still
> available at your local b=
> ookseller: "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon; "A
> Hologram for the King" =
> by Dave Eggers; "Some Assembly Required" by Anne Lamott
> (with Sam Lamott); =
> "Monstress" by Lysley Tenorio; "The Great Animal
> Orchestra" by Bernie Kraus=
> e; "Equal of the Sun"=0Aby Anita Amirrezvani; "What Light
> Can Do" by Robert=
>  Hass; "I'm Your Man" by Sylvie Simmons; "Subversives" by
> Seth Rosenfeld; a=
> nd "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil
> Young.=0A=0A-0-=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck
Dept. of English
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Rempart St. 15
D-79098 Freiburg
Germany