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Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City

Sam Baker January 30, 2014 Many people I know have a Tales of the City moment. For some it was back in 1978 when the series started. For others it was not until 1993 when the series that immortalised Barbary … Continue reading →

Armistead Maupin Turns The Final Page On ‘Tales Of The City’ Series

By Marcie Sillman February 3, 2014 Click the link to hear the audio interview You don’t have to know much about San Francisco to be a fan of Armistead Maupin’s long-running series, “Tales of the City.” Maupin first created his … Continue reading →

Armistead Maupin Bids Farewell to ‘Tales’

Tim Teeman February 2, 2014 As he writes his final ‘Tales of the City’ novel, Armistead Maupin talks sex, drugs, marriage, mortality – and lapping up Burning Man’s craziness – with Tim Teeman. When I ask how his book tour … Continue reading →

Maupin and me: on the Tales of the City Tour

NOTE: Be sure to visit the original article for pictures of Damian and his Tours of the Tales Damian Barr The Guardian, Friday 31 January 2014 13.00 EST After more than 30 years documenting the lives and loves of a … Continue reading →

Saying Goodbye to a City and Its Characters

Charles Isherwood January 30, 2014 ‘The Days of Anna Madrigal,’ Concluding ‘Tales of the City’ The hills are still firmly in place, the Golden Gate Bridge remains a bright symbol of welcome, but San Francisco has changed radically since Armistead … Continue reading →

Tourism for Locals: Macondray Lane Paves the Path for Tales of the City

By Juan De Anda Thu., Jan. 30 2014 at 12:10 PM After 40 years of entertaining readers and viewers with the adventures and tragedies of Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann Singleton, Michael “Mouse” Tolliver, and other characters; Armistead Maupin, creator of … Continue reading →

Armistead Maupin on Saying Goodbye to San Francisco and Tales of the City

Tony Bravo January 29, 2014 There’s something melancholy yet appropriate about Armistead Maupin choosing to end his famed Tales of the City series at this particular point in the city’s history; the San Francisco of the nearly 40 years of … Continue reading →

Toward the family of man: Armistead Maupin

Wayne Lee January 24, 2014 With The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin closes the nearly 40-year saga of “family”life revolving around the title character’s boarding house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco. The ninth novel in his Tales … Continue reading →

California dreaming: Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’

PATRICK STRUDWICK Wednesday 29 January 2014 The series of novels have changed the lives of countless gay people. As the last volume is published, Patrick Strudwick pays a personal tribute Living above a strip joint is significantly less salubrious than … Continue reading →

Video – Armistead Maupin Discusses The Days of Anna Madrigal at Book Passage, San Francisco

Armistead at Book Passage on “The Days of Anna Madrigal” book tour, January 21, 2014 From bookpassagetv