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Mar 26, 2024
Carolina Ixta’s Debut Novel Rooted in Oakland Realness
When Carolina Ixta was a kid, she’d go get haircuts with her mom and sister at a salon in Fruitvale, at 31st and International. Her mom’s highlights would take hours and the sisters would get bored, so...
Mar 26, 2024
Caroline Paul’s ‘Tough Broad’ Advises Adventurous Aging
Setting out to resolve a puzzling question about why women over the age of 50 choose or are forced into lives of fear over flat-out fun and fulfillment, New York Times bestselling writer Caroline Paul uncovered the...
Mar 26, 2024
Toriano Gordon Enters New Phase with ‘Vegan Mob Cookbook’
Toriano Gordon closed the Vegan Mob’s Oakland hub last September. Gordon refurbished the former Kwik Way with his brand’s distinctive color, a neon green that illuminates Lake Park Avenue day and night. The atomic-age carport is still...
Feb 28, 2024
Tommy Orange Writes Second Urban Native Novel
The difficulty in beginning a conversation with Oakland-based, New York Times best-selling novelist and writer Tommy Orange is deciding which direction to go.
We could shift into reverse and march through his earliest years, being born and raised...
Dec 12, 2023
Daniel Clowes’ Brutal Realism
A woman with a beehive hairdo appears on the cover of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel, Monica. The color of her skin is the same shade of blue as Shadow Lass, a character drawn in the DC comic...
Nov 28, 2023
The Becoming of Mimi Tempestt
The best advice for reading mimi tempestt’s second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, other than “do it,” is to remember to breathe. Now and then also pause, placing the Berkeley-based writer’s tornado of poetry aside to...
Sep 26, 2023
Now and Then
Heather Cox Richardson is hot on history. During a phone interview to talk about her new book, Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America, the Boston College professor is most animated by a question about a...
