{"product_id":"we-never-called-it-frisco","title":"We Never Called It Frisco","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #9a6372;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNovel by Jed Perl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eSeptember 8, 2026 • 5.5 x 8 • 136 Pages • 978-1-56689-764-8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA candid novel about art, artists, and their tempestuous relationships in the countercultural movement of the 50’s and 60’s, by one of America's most celebrated art critics.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring intermission at the San Francisco Opera, esteemed and incorrigible cultural critic Marcia Falk collapses into a banquette and dies on the spot. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s soon discovered that Marcia willed her entire estate to Burt—her on-again, off-again lover. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis windfall includes her correspondence, her stilted redwood house in Marin County, and an incomplete draft of her unpublished memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Never Called It Frisco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. As he processes Marcia’s death alongside their cadre of Berkeley bohemians, Burt begins to reconstruct Marcia’s work-in-progress as an elegiac collage for the friend he’s lost and the city that found her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his debut novel, renowned art critic Jed Perl, guides his reader down the back alleys of a mid-century San Francisco populated with painters, puppeteers, paperback revolutionaries, and the writers like Marcia who determined their positions in the cultural ecosystem. Through energetic and immersive prose, \u003cem\u003eWe Never Called It Frisco\u003c\/em\u003e tests the structural limits of the novel as a site of reconstitution and remembrance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49287727743218,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/files\/Screenshot2026-06-17at12.57.37PM.png?v=1781720854","url":"https:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/products\/we-never-called-it-frisco","provider":"Coffee House Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}