Beyond the Postcard

Writing San Diego

Fiction and Activist Writing about Life beneath the Postcard in “America’s Finest Tourist Plantation”

with

Jim Miller, Kelly Mayhew, Doug Porter, and Special Guests

Join us for a reading and discussion about Miller’s San Diego novels, including the paperback release of Drift, as well as his and Kelly Mayhew’s Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, City Works Press, and celebrate the launch of a new Substack Project:

The Jumping-Off Place: 

Politics, Labor, Culture, San Diego 

Saturday, May 4th at 7:30 (doors open at 7:15)

at Verbatim Books (3793 30th Street, North Park)

Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew are co-authors with Mike Davis of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See and Miller is also the author of the novels Drift, Flash, and Last Days in Ocean Beach. Both are founders of San Diego City Works Press. Doug Porter is a writer, underground journalist, and political activist who helped found The San Diego Free Press and currently publishes Words and Deeds on Substack.