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Oakland’s Writes
Arts Editor, D. Scot Miller, opens this week's Spring Lit issue with a round-up of notable new titles from Oakland's historic literary legacy.
Arts Feature
Looking Back
Lou Fancher speaks with author/activist, Roberto Lovato on trauma, recovery and migration in his latest book, "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas".
Arts & Culture
The Kinship of Plants and People
Eighty humble plants and the wisdom of North American indigenous people add up to...
Arts & Culture
Book Gift Guide
As with everything else, it's been a rough year in bookselling. Now that it's...
Arts & Culture
99 Percent Invisible City
Why are manhole covers round? What's the deal with those colorful inflated tubes that...
Arts & Culture
The Butterfly Effect
2015 was a tense year. Protesters took to the streets in multiple states, demanding...
Arts & Culture
Brighter Days for Dark Carnival
Berkeley's Dark Carnival has seen bleak times before.
The Claremont Avenue science fiction and fantasy...
Arts & Culture
Poetry as Prophecy
I'm hazy on the details, but apparently a couple of freelance astronauts parked a...
Arts & Culture
Anti-Racist Reading List
As protests against police brutality continue in the streets, and are met with more...
Arts & Culture
Beat Survivor
MORRISON'S MUSE: The late beat poet Michael McClure.
Credits: OneHandClapping - CC
I first met Michael...
Arts & Culture
Virtual Book Signings
A pandemic might be a good time to catch up on your reading, but...
Arts & Culture
Books To Read While Social Distancing
Okay, you're stuck in the house, but is it really that awful? OK, probably....
Arts & Culture
Doing Some Binge Reading?
Harvard Business School professor Ryan Raffaelli describes the unique value that independent booksellers provide...
Arts & Culture
Updating a Narrative of Slavery
In her new novel, The Revisioners, Oakland writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton explores the legacy...
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