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Liminal Is Lit
Ayize Jama-Everett delivers with the latest installment in his sprawling sci-fi saga Ayize Jama-Everett, author of the audacious Liminals quartet of superhero novels, brings all the elements of its...
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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...
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Cali Lit
Prolific local writers make the Bay Area a wellspring of words. Those of us whose fantasies include summer months spent in a hammock reading, and occasionally snoozing with, a good book will likely...
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Now and Then
Heather Cox Richardson is hot on history. During a phone interview to talk about her new book, Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America, the Boston College professor is most animated by a...
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The Becoming of Mimi Tempestt
The best advice for reading mimi tempestt’s second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, other than “do it,” is to remember to breathe. Now and then also pause, placing the Berkeley-based writer’s...
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Daniel Clowes’ Brutal Realism
A woman with a beehive hairdo appears on the cover of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel, Monica. The color of her skin is the same shade of blue as Shadow Lass, a character drawn in the DC comic book...
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Tommy Orange Writes Second Urban Native Novel
The difficulty in beginning a conversation with Oakland-based, New York Times best-selling novelist and writer Tommy Orange is deciding which direction to go. We could shift into reverse and march...
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Toriano Gordon Enters New Phase with ‘Vegan Mob Cookbook’
Toriano Gordon closed the Vegan Mob’s Oakland hub last September. Gordon refurbished the former Kwik Way with his brand’s distinctive color, a neon green that illuminates Lake Park Avenue day and...
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Caroline Paul’s ‘Tough Broad’ Advises Adventurous Aging
Setting out to resolve a puzzling question about why women over the age of 50 choose or are forced into lives of fear over flat-out fun and fulfillment, New York Times bestselling writer Caroline Paul...
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Carolina Ixta’s Debut Novel Rooted in Oakland Realness
When Carolina Ixta was a kid, she’d go get haircuts with her mom and sister at a salon in Fruitvale, at 31st and International. Her mom’s highlights would take hours and the sisters would get bored,...
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