Oakland Gold Nuggets: The Other Monday Open Mic The Other Monday Open Mic The BLU House Oakland March 25, 2024 A laminated sign on the gate had graphics of hanging plants. It read, “The BLU House,” with the Breezy Bratton 29 Mar 2024 · 3 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
Oakland 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 Robin Lapid 7 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland The Warrior Who Saved a Dolphin Meet and Greet: Two-Time NBA Champion Clifford Ray African American Museum and Library Oakland Feb. 24, 2024 Some of my fondest memories with my father involved watching sports, since that’ Robin Lapid 4 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Art Imitates … Books Books as Art, and Art of Books. At Book/Shop. Sarah Bass 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
LA Reject The Canon RARE BOOKS LA Pasadena Convention Center Pasadena Feb. 4, 2024 If you’ve ever told someone it was your New Year’s resolution to read more books, know that I Brittany Menjivar 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland How The West Was Wrung Alta Journal Issue 26 Party Clio’s Bookstore and Bar Oakland Jan. 24, 2024 In the bowels of what feels like the coziest Manhattan bookstore not in Manhattan, I thumbed Robin Lapid 29 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Ghosts & The Sisters Gibb The Science Behind Science Fiction with the Gibbs Sisters Chapter 510 Oakland Jan. 20, 2024 It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and Shawnee Gibbs is telling me a real-life ghost Robin Lapid 25 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Book Club Kicks Off Year Of Baldwin The vibe at Possible Futures was lit Thursday night — more specifically Kulturally Lit, as the literary-focused arts organization’s 100 Years of Baldwin Book Club had its inaugural meeting exploring Karen Ponzio 19 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
NYC As Told On The (Baldwin) Mountain James Baldwin Centennial Programing Film Forum Manhattan, NYC Through Jan. 25,2024 A hundred years of James Baldwin and, if we’re lucky, a hundred years more. I went to K Hank Jost 15 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
LA Humans As Brands: Disgusted? No. Amused Jackie Wang and Natasha Stagg Book launch reading Poetic Research Bureau Los Angeles Nov. 28, 2023 Poetic Research Bureau (PRB), in the multi-venue 2220 Arts + Archives, stretched its winning streak Jack Skelley 1 Dec 2023 · 2 min read
Hartford Getting Down, Dirty & Drunk With Mark Twain R‑Rated Twain Mark Twain House Hartford, Conn. Oct. 19 Mark Twain is well known for his classic literary novels, but I didn’t know that his talents extended into Jamil Ragland 24 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Step into the Ring: Poet Quinn Carver Johnson, a Pink Cowboy Hat, and an Epic Tale of Queer Pro Wrestling Quinn Carver Johnson in Conversation with Karl Jones Magic City Books’ Algonquin Room Sept. 28, 2023 Slipping into Magic City Books on a quiet night for the launch of Quinn Cassidy McCants 5 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Book Fair Grows Up Magic City Books’ Adult Book Fair NEFF Brewing Sept. 21, 2023 I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived at Magic City’s Adult Book Fair. Like many Z.B. Reeves 28 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
NYC No One Stole The Show, But … In which a writer discovers why it might be worth showing up at an open mic even though neither he nor a friend is performing. Easy Paradise Open Mic The K Hank Jost 13 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
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