Can't wait to hold this book in my hands...

oh WOW, a review like I couldn't even have dreamed for Liam O'Brien's new book from Heyday, "Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond: An Illustrated Guide." Liam charmed me from the minute we met -- now you all get to experience his art and effervescence too!! www.kqed.org/arts/1398161...

I want to see it reborn and resurrected! I'm only interested in cartographic raptures. Incredible teamwork here between local media outlets.

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose. If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

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The @oaklandreviewofbooks.org weekly calendar is up! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Reporter Laura Weiss (@lauralew105.bsky.social) is looking to speak with people with #LongCOVID who are on Medicaid and concerned about losing benefits due to work requirements or otherwise due to Trump's spending bill. Contact her at (lauraweisswrites at gmail dot com).

ahhh that first sip of tea in the morning. Nothing has ever tasted better.

I am trying to enjoy The Gilded Age but the skinny muscular arms of all the high society ladies are killing me. Where are the sloped shoulders and big bosoms and soft plumpness of all the old portraits? The hats are great through.

Music, conversation, a room full of book lovers, what could be better? Bay Area people, come support local independent publishing in Berkeley on 10/19! We're so excited to see you all.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

it's aster season! I am so grateful for these little delicate late summer dynamos with their subtle lavenders shining up our fields and trails right now.

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

a poem I adore by a dear poet friend who holds space for all kinds of love in her poems -- Friends with No Benefits by Meg Fernandes poets.org/poem/friends...

YES, love Leilani's reporting here!

Such good spam today. I both get a million dollars from *THE UN* in collab with *GOOGLE ADS* and ALSO have been invited into the illuminati?!

since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Big shake

Digging deeper and we've got a book review of Medina Mora's debut autofictional novel that, perhaps as inevitable in autofiction, becomes a review of not only the writer, but his family. jacobin.com/2024/12/whit...

I love a rabbit hole that lands in this good a nest. I started here: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-n..., got curious about who exactly was the guy who signed NAFTA, got even MORE curious at the personal life section of the Salinas wikipedia page, and google search still sometimes delivers the goods.

man, this is some good profile writing around the absence of the central figure (disgraced former president of Mexico) that happens to feature an interview with an old professor of mine in Ireland: www.texasobserver.org/305-so-far-f...

Going to this for sure

"The arch of the moral universe may not, after all, bend towards justice, but it bends towards archives. Collect the scraps, I hear in my head like a whisper. Do not let them rewrite the world. Save all the evidence you can."

sound fields, a journal about the art + practice of documentary audio that i make w/ many brilliant folks just launched its second issue. The subject: archives. i wrote something for it about how to save the truth, we must all become archivists for the future: www.soundfields.org/02-letter-fr...

I'm returning to The Moderns in a very deliberate way these days, and JFC if you haven't read The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and you like gossip (autocorrect suggested history as a sub and like, it's not wrong), get thee to that boooook. All I ever want to read now is scene histories.

This song inspired a very detailed Venn diagram.

This is true.

Hey East Bay, what are you getting up to this weekend? The slate is full of literary events, starting tonight, and then tomorrow is also Creek to Bay Day! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Robert Redford apparently "stumbled into" City Lights "looking for jazz" and ended up in a reading of Beat poets?! Love the interview being aired with @nprfreshair.bsky.social on @kalwradio.bsky.social

Xander's vibe reports are dynamite

what it's like to intern at Heyday! west.stanford.edu/news/reading...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Dorsey frankly criticizes the criminal justice system but his book is about his path to a life of greater properties and beginning, finding justice in the power of law. When criticism & honesty are banned for the general public, remember the state practices this control on the most oppressed 1st.

Today!

Hey, look, a chance to support independent local publishing that doesn't kowtow to state oppression and shakedowns

I have been noticing how gorgeous this plant is in yards lately and am very envious. I have fuschia dreams for next year.

At 2 pm today in the West Bay!

RIP GOAT Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

The California State University system now has its first Indigenous food sovereignty lab. www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

"The community wanted a food sovereignty lab. But we didn’t know what that was.” My latest for @highcountrynews.org

I’m biking on a beautiful afternoon, the trees alive with the setting sun, and I see an older man in saffron robes on the sidewalk, his gentle gait and head held low making me think, “This guy gets it.” Then, passing by him, I see his forefinger, just as gently, scrolling down the face of his phone.

“What this place, what Heyday has allowed me to do is to create a real community, to be really useful, to create a home for certain people and certain ideas,” said Malcolm, “That’s the role of a publisher, furthering others.”

Herbalist Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering traditional knowledge of curanderismo, and in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙭 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙩 she offers readers the tools to begin their own healing—for themselves, for their relationship with the earth, and for the people. Now available in audiobook.

I am subscribed and so grateful for the density of publications, voices, and arts coverage 2025 is bringing into our lives. A balm, a salve, a reminder that there's so much we can do together to build the world we want, even amidst political obscenity.

This discussion of fishing and climate change and a sustainable relationship with the ocean as is being practiced in the Gulf looks cool. Weds at the Book Passage in the Ferry Bldg www.bookpassage.com/event/amanda...

Music, conversation, a room full of book lovers, what could be better? Bay Area people, come support local independent publishing in Berkeley on 10/19! We're so excited to see you all.

God i love the material reality behind art practices. I asked an artist I did a talk with about moving from ceramics to bronze, expecting some big meditation. She was like, "it breaks less."

listening to the RENT soundtrack for the first time in a decade because I am still ridiculously fond of musicals.

japan persimmons, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915

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