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Aug 20, 2024

Nancy Pelosi speaks truth about power in new book

When House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and her husband attended the Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson show at Shoreline Amphitheatre a few weeks ago, they sat in section 102. I sat in 101. The Pelosi entourage arrived right before Dylan came on. The sun remained just above the horizon, prompting...
May 7, 2024

‘Jukebox Empire’ at Book Passage

The truth will out is one of those maxims that puts an asterisk on family lore. The mechanism of...
Mar 13, 2024

Writer-in-Residence: Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende’s novels are a gift of literature for us all. When my wife, Jane, who is a huge...
Tommy Orange Writes Second Urban Native Novel
Mar 5, 2024

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...
Apr 6, 2022

Fantasy Fave: Word Horde sparks local imaginations

The quests of many fantasy novels lead to a specific destination. If you’re under four feet tall and travel...
Apr 6, 2022

Found Poems: New volume by Ulalume González de León

The new poetry book from Sixteen Rivers Press, Plagios (Plagiarisms) Volume Two by Mexican poet Ulalume González de León, couldn’t have...
Ferlinghetti
Mar 3, 2021

Ferlinghetti Spaghetti

A poet prevails As regards the recent passing of poet, playwright and Beat publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, exiting at three digits...
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