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May 3, 2023

In Due Time

Author Jenny Odell discovers a life beyond the clock In her new book, Oakland writer Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing, examines time as a commodity to be bought, sold and traded. The clock one lives by has been built for profit, not for people.  Everyone says time is...
Feb 15, 2023

Liminal Is Lit

Feb 1, 2023

A Bud Bible

Jan 11, 2023

Grace and Grit

Obama’s chief White House speechwriter and post-presidential collaborator gives an insider’s view in latest book During the fractious campaign months leading up to the mid-term elections in November 2022, I found myself reaching repeatedly for safe havens. Like...
Nov 9, 2022

Honor Them With More Than a Parade

‘Our Veterans’ digs deep into vets’ challenges Friday, Nov. 11 is Veterans Day this year. There will be parades. Politicians will make speeches “honoring the sacrifices” of the men and women who serve or have served in the...
Oct 5, 2022

Piercing the Book Bubble: Litquake celebrates 23 years of bringing literature to the people

If Litquake 2022 were weaponry, it would be a bow and arrows. Instead, Litquake is the Bay Area’s beloved annual literary festival that this year sprawls over 16 days with 93 events and over 350 authors and...
Sep 14, 2022

Leaving Miami: Jonathan Escoffery’s ‘If I Survive You’ follows a family seeking identity that...

With his new collection of interlinked short stories, Oakland author Jonathan Escoffery dissects the ironies of race, identity and family for Jamaican immigrants living in South Florida. Through the eyes of two brothers on divergent career and social...
Mar 2, 2022

Seeking Self: Jay Caspian Kang tackles the pull of white assimilation for second- and...

In a phone conversation, Berkeley-based writer Jay Caspian Kang speaks his truth in a multiplicity of voices—and reveals he may forever be a man in search of a singular identity. We’re talking about Kang’s most recent book, The...
Feb 9, 2022

What Is Love?: Mac Barnett’s latest book takes young readers on a heartfelt journey

In 2013, New York Times-bestselling author Mac Barnett told me that growing up as an only child, whose time was divided between his father’s and mother’s homes in Castro Valley and Oakland, left him feeling lonely and...
Dec 22, 2021

The Second Shooter: Nick Mamatas’ latest book begins with a mysterious phenomenon and takes...

Oakland author Nick Mamatas offers a trip down the rabbit hole of theories about mass shootings in his new metaphysical thriller, The Second Shooter. According to Mamatas, for every mass shooting in America—four victims or more—there is initially...
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