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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

Susana M. Morris discusses her research for Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler and her subject’s legacy.

trespassers at the golden gate, gary krist, book review

An Adulterous Couple

nolan knight, the gorgon of los feliz, book review

Grifter’s Paradise

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

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da capo

Beyond the Usual Suspects

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

the pacific ccircuit, alexis madrigal

Two Prisms onto Oakland

our beautiful boys, sameer pandya

Young Man Down

stacy nathaniel jackson, the ephemera collection

The Memory Palace

the buffalo hunter hunter, stephen graham jones

19th-Century Nightmare

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

Lyrical Truth-Teller

review of the dream hotel by laila lalami, fiction, novelist

Encroaching on Dreams

smother, rachel richardson

Power of Friendship

little mysteries by sara gran, book review

The Fine Line Between Before and After

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

Memories Can’t Wait

book review of vantage point a novel by sara sligar

Uncanny Island

pico iyer, aflame, learning from silence, book review

The Art of Sitting Still

cover of the novel dream city by douglas unger

What Happens in Vegas

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henry miller, the air conditioned nightmare

The Old Weird America

anita felicelli, how we know our time travelers, short stories, fiction, book review

Past, Present, and Future

george r stewart, fire, novel, book review

Past Is Prologue

lili anolik, didion and babitz

Two Women

day and night books of mardou fox, nisi shawl, book review

The Subterranean

big breath in, john straley, novel, fiction, book review

Whales and Other Big-Brained Mammals

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

tiny threads, lilliam rivera

Fates and Furies

california catastrophes, gary griggs

The Elemental State

jessica elisheva emerson, olive days

Losing My Religion

mojava ghost, forrest gander

The Neverending Story

whoever you are, honey, olivia gatwood

Culture Clash

danzy senna, colored television, book review, author, novelist, los angeles, biracial, race

Relentless

rachel kushner, creation lake, novel, book review

The Changeling

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

Valley Girl

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

Undone

rufi thorpe, margos got money troubles, book review, fiction, novel

Kiss and Tell

joy williams, concerning the future of souls, book review, fiction

The Devil’s Helpmate

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

The Circle Game

the future was color, patrick nathan, novel, book review

The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss

lynne thompson, blue on a blue palette, book, poetry

Radical Joy

porochista khakpour, tehrangeles, book review, novel, ficiton, los angeles

The Promised Land

alex erpinoza, sons of el rey

Down for the Count

the friday afternoon club, griffin dunne

Family Affair