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water mirror echo, bruce lee and the making of asian america, jeff chang

Poetics of Fighting

split portrait: susana m. morris in yellow next to the cover of positive obsession, featuring octavia butler in red lipstick and large eyeglasses.

Charting One’s Own Course

greyhound by joanna pocock, book review

Travel Westward

rehab an american scandal by shoshana walter, book review

Searching for Sober Living

trespassers at the golden gate, gary krist, book review

An Adulterous Couple

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josh jackson, the enduring wild, book review

Forgotten Lands

their accomplices wore robes, how the supreme court chained black america to the bottom of a racial caste system, brando simeo starkey

Institutional Denial of Civil Rights

caro de robertis

Writer’s Room: Storytelling for Survival

illustration of russell chatham

Falling (Again) for ‘Dark Waters’

da capo

Beyond the Usual Suspects

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rebecca solnit, no straight road takes you there

Sitting with Ambiguity

no daylight in that face, adventures in film noir, barry gifford

The Aesthetic of Noir

ruth asawa and the artist mother at midcentury, jordan troeller

The Making of Matriarchal Modernism

sister, sinner, claire hoffman

Redemption Song

poets square, a memoir in thirty cats, courtney gustafson

Illuminating Care

notes to john by joan didion, book review

Play It As It Lays

searches, selfhood in the digital age, vauhini vara

Singular View

the pacific ccircuit, alexis madrigal

Two Prisms onto Oakland

neko cases, the harder i fight the more i love you

Lyrical Truth-Teller

book review of reading the waves by lidia yuknavitch, memoir, anita felicelli

Memories Can’t Wait

pico iyer, aflame, learning from silence, book review

The Art of Sitting Still

henry miller, the air conditioned nightmare

The Old Weird America

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lili anolik, didion and babitz

Two Women

book cover for dorothy parker in hollywood by gail crowther with a black and white image of a woman, book review

Bright Lights, Big City

nick hornby, rosamond lehmann in vegas

Three Questions for Nick Hornby

the rent collectors, jesse katz

MacArthur Park

moon unit zappa, earth to moon, book review, memoir

Valley Girl

thom gunn, a coolr queer life, michael nott, biography, book review

Undone

traveling, on the path of joni mitchell, ann powers, book review

The Circle Game

author robert louis stevenson in a portrait with the women who were instrumental in helping him advance his literary career despite recurring illnesses, from left wife fanny stevenson, stepdaughter and literary assistant isobel osbourne, and his mother, margaret isabella stevenson

Excerpt: ‘A Wilder Shore’

the friday afternoon club, griffin dunne

Family Affair

griffin dunne, friday afternoon club

Griffin Dunne Memoir Excerpt

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literature of japanese american incarceration, frank abe, floyd cheung

Executive Disorder

chipped, writing from a skateborders lens, jose vadi, book review, nonficton

Free Ride

joel selvin, drums and demons, jim gordon

A Different Drummer

lauren markham, a map of future ruins, book review, politics, nonfiction, european world history

The Mythologies of Place

viet thanh nguyen, writer, author, a man of two faces, los angeles

The Action of Ideas

a man of two faces, viet thanh nguyen

Excerpt: ‘A Man of Two Faces’

the life and writings of ralph j gleason, don armstrong, nonfiction, book review

The Music Never Stopped

books, nonfiction, jonathan blitzer, everyone who is gone is here, central america, united states

The Secret History

marguerite higgins, maggie higgins, war correspondent, illustration

Blond Ambition

anthony veasna so, songs on endless repeat

Testament

a woman smiling with a squirrel on her shoulder

Back to Nature

american gun, true story of the ar15, cameron mcwhirter, zasha elinson, book review, nonfictiion

Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

thank you, falettimme be mice elf agin, sly stone, book review

Everyday People

a man of two faces, viet thanh nguyen, memoir

Double Vision

bound together 2023, nonfiction, drama

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Drama

bound together 2023, nonfiction, travel and place

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Travel and Place

claire dederer

Nonfiction Spotlight: Claire Dederer

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bound together 2023, nonfiction, essays

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Essays

héctor tobar

Nonfiction Spotlight: Héctor Tobar

bound together 2023, nonfiction, reading and writing

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Reading, Writing

bound together 2023, nonfiction, memories

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Memoirs

santi elijah holley

Nonfiction Spotlight: Santi Elijah Holley

bound together 2023, nonfiction, biographies

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Biographies

bound together 2023, nonfiction, true crime

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: True Crime

bound together 2023, nonfiction, history

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: History

bound together 2023, nonfiction, film

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Film

david thomson

Nonfiction Spotlight: David Thomson

bound together 2023, nonfiction, nature and science

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Nature, Science

bound together 2023, nonfiction, food and drink

Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Food and Drink

blythe roberson, writer, america the beautiful, how to date men when you hate men

The Unrelenting Glamour of an American Book Tour

montana homesteaders

A Brief History of Homesteading

creep, myriam gurba

Games Without Frontiers

bogie and bacall, william j mann, book review

Love, Actually

dark days, roger reeves

The Hush Harbor