The Listening Zone

California Street #1 “San Francisco adventures and some that only began here”; Rediscovered Reading of Seminal Stories, each resonant with a new character voice; the collected early works of Elihu Blotnick, read by the author.

Called "fascinating and frightening" by the Pacific Historian, when these stories first appeared in print in 1981, the stories belong in the category of “short story journalism and narrative non-fiction”.

Walked to school by Woody Allen, for $1 a week, Blotnick later spent time in jail for his banned narrative, “Confessions of a Plastic Man”. If re-told now, the details in some stories might change, but not the essence and outline or the personalities. The stories were published in Scanlan's and San Francisco Magazine, written on assignment for Rolling Stone and Life, and pulled from his desk drawer. Reviewing his past, after losing an eye, Blotnick rediscovered the recordings, made at the Little Known of Gallery, in San Francisco.

Firefallmedia has remastered and rerecorded parts of the tapes for the current release.