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
Oakland Tommy Orange Goes There (There) Oakland Arts and Lectures: Tommy Orange and Dr. Darcie Littlefoot Hosted by Sistah Scifi Oakstop’s Broadway Gallery 1723 Broadway Ave. Oakland There There, published in 2018, was Tommy Orange’ Sarah Bass 14 May 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Daring to Dream: Mx. Yaffa’s Utopia Inara: Light of Utopia Oakland Launch 510 Firehouse 815 Alice St. Oakland May 6, 2024 “No one ever stops to ask what a free Palestine looks like.” I got to Stacey Peters 13 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Booked. What About Books? Salons at Stowe: Literary Criticism Locked Up Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford April 24, 2014 I went to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for a discussion titled “Literary Criticism Locked Jamil Ragland 26 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
LA Who Does and Doesn’t Belong on Everest? WILL COCKRELL’S LAUNCH OF EVEREST, INC., DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 16, 2024 I avoid the Brentwood Country Mart at most costs; it’s a danger zone for Kate Sadoff 25 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
LA Being Free, Being Faithful, Being Responsible for Extinction JENNIFER CROFT’S DISCUSSION OF THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY, DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 18, 2024 The Białowieża Forest is the last remaining old-growth forest in Europe and Kate Sadoff 25 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
LA Pay Pigs, Incels, and Young Sociopaths PARASOCIALITE BOOK LAUNCH WITH BRITTANY MENJIVAR Stories Books & Café Los Angeles March 15, 2024 Last year, Brittany Menjivar co-founded the late-night reading series Car Crash Collective. This year, the A.J. Brown 24 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Beauty Of Strangers We Meet Meet the Author — Dr. Irene Sardanis Connections: The Power of Connecting with Stranger Oakland Public Library — Rockridge Branch Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 As a writer with an unceasing streak of Stacey Peters 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read