cantara's profile

Hometown

Minneapolis

Places I've been

Paris. Rome. New York. Tel Aviv. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Boulder.

More about me

Newspaper columnist Bruce Bellingham referred to me in print last April as "one of San Francisco's great characters".

Primarily a literary essayist and publisher, I own and run the small press Cantarabooks, which is home to works in paperback and ebook, while my PDF-exclusive literary journal Cantaraville publishes short fiction, nonfiction, scripts and poetry from all over the world. I've served as amaneunsis to classic film director Rouben Mamoulian (IMDb snurl.com/mamou); my work as a performer in the 70s during the "Golden Age of Porn" includes the feature movies of Gerard Damiano and several shorts in the Swedish Erotica series (IMDb snurl.com/canta). With my son Robert, my life partner, editor-author Michael Matheny, and my artistic partner, poet-novelist-film/TV director Stephen Gyllenhaal (IMDb snurl.com/gylle) I make the rounds of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boulder, Hartford and Paris.

For more information, download the PDF cantarasinterview.notlong.com, which includes an early photo of me nude in the context of my old profession, and photos by me and by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit.

Cold Open snurl.com/coldo
Flash Memoirs snurl.com/memrs
Life. Love. Films. cantara.vox.com
Lycos Cinema. cinema.lycos.com/users/cantara
Cantarabooks A Literary Press cantarabooks.com
Cantaraville A Literary Magazine cantaraville.com
My Newsletter cantara.squarespace.com/news
Contact Me cantara.squarespace.com/contact
My Public Feeds netvibes.com/cantara
Follow Me twitter.com/cantara
My PDFs issuu.com/cantara

Activities

Reading.

Favorite Charities

International Rescue Committee.

Favorite Music

French music hall.

Favorite TV Shows

Twin Peaks.

Favorite Movies

Waterland.

Favorite Books

Ulysses.

Favorite Quotes

"Live for today. Write for tomorrow."

Favorite People

Stephen Gyllenhaal. Michael Matheny. Robert Matheny.

Favorite Places

San Francisco. Paris. New York.

Favorite Animals

Homo sapiens.

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