Sometimes you're in San Francisco and want to find a new place to eat, or where to spend a free afternoon. You also want Pulizer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy's recommendation. The best place to look seems to be the new tumblr blog Yelping With Cormac, which purports to be a collection of Yelp reviews written by the reclusive author of Suttree and The Road (who, of course, spent his childhood in Knoxville).
Here's Cormac M.'s review of SF's Dolores Park:Mission - San Francisco, CACormac M. | Author | A dusty home at the end of a road, NMThree starsHe sat down next to the others. Studiously ragtag bohemians carefully squandering the waking hours. Pieces of a conversation that when added weighed nothing and meant nothing. He stopped listening and looked east to the valley and saw among the Victorians the wavering image of Ohlone people in a loose band collecting seeds and trapping fish in Mission Creek, babies strapped to tattooed mothers and men naked as Adam heedless of the evening's coming fog and up the hill sequoias and coast red woods huddled like mourners. Sea lions on the beaches thick as pavement. In the bay an alien galleon loaded with steel and powder. Sails slack and men streaming into boats, skin oozing a new pestilence, hands holding Spanish blades. The Ohlone watching and having no words for it.
(It doesn't seem like you can actually find these reviews at Yelp. Macy Halford at The New Yorker's Book Bench blog credits this guy, a contributor to Laughing Squid.)
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