All Over Get This Bread A fresh book by baker and writer Jim Franks frames culinary experimentation as a coping tactic for existential dread. Izzy True 10 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
Books What We Owe The Dogs We "Own" In his new poetry collection, Reginald Dwayne Betts questions who's in control Laura Glesby 3 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
New Haven Libertad Meets Best Video By ABBEY KIM High school senior Libertad’s brother, Maynor, is dead. As her family sorts through his room, she wonders: “How long can a space hold a memory?” His Ghost Concierge 27 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Books Book Review: A Raw, Poetic Journey of Identity, Rebellion, and Self-Discovery How much of who we are is defined by the world around us, and how much of it is something we must create for ourselves? Aria Aber explores identity in this debut coming of age novel. Vita Hewitt 21 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Philadelphia Reasons Why I Hate Spotify "Mood Machine," journalist Liz Pelly's new book, lays out how a Swedish ad-tech company swallowed the music industry with the help of major labels. Izzy True 13 Feb 2025 · 1 min read
All Over Power To The Novelist A search for Black Panther truth -- through fiction. Paul Bass 10 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
New Haven Year Of Baldwin Sparked Grassroots Re-Reckonings In the process, IfeMichelle Gardin made an old practice -- communal cultural conversation -- new again. Laura Glesby 24 Dec 2024 · 10 min read
Oakland California Against the Sea: Rosanna Xia Takes the High Road on Sea Level Rise An author's chat at Clio's Books offers a clear-eyed look at the storms brewing outside. Fred Noland 5 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse) Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River. Z.B. Reeves 25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass, The Audiobook “When we were, like, 15, 16, me and my best friend Trig used to go record shopping. And it was weird. Our local record store had this counter with all Brian Slattery 4 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
LA The Dog Ears of Summer Friday Night Mixer A Good Used Book Los Angeles August 23, 2024 Certified bibliophiles will know that there are two distinct varieties of used and rare bookstores. Some stock autographed Brittany Menjivar 30 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Two Podcasters Walk Into A Morgue… Author Talk: “Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book Of Death“ Circle Cinema Tulsa August 15, 2024 Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes do not fear death. They laugh in its face. Last Kathryn Parkman 30 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven The Sound Waves The History of Sound: Stories By Ben Shattuck Viking July 9, 2024 306 pages It’s ae long story. And 12 short stories. Ben Shattuck tells those dozen stories in Paul Bass 28 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Why Angels Cover Their Eyes Seraphim By Joshua Perry Melville House Publishing 262 pages Ben is not Joshua. Ben grew up in a college town in Massachusetts. Joshua grew up in a college town in Paul Bass 25 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland What You Don’t Know: A Childhood Memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World Dorothy Lazard Heyday Books Fred Noland 7 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
All Over Brill Battles Bots To Rescue Truth The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Paul Bass 20 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland How Geology Shaped A City Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped A City, by Andrew Alden, published by Heyday Books. Fred Noland 22 May 2024 · 1 min read
LA Hot Moms In Your Area KIMBERLY KING PARSONS’S WE WERE THE UNIVERSE BOOK TOUR Skylight Books Los Angeles May 16, 2024 The cosmos keep bringing me back to Kimberly King Parsons. During undergrad, I Brittany Menjivar 22 May 2024 · 3 min read