What is a vibe report? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/what-is-a-vi...

What is a vibe report? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/what-is-a-vi...

"Nature will do it" a vibe report from Tarantula mating season on Mt. Diablo, while looking for the spooky season.... www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/nature-will-...

The week in Oakland literary doings: do them. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

The week in Oakland literary doings: do them. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Wherein a group of writers write up the vibe at @transitbooks.bsky.social's anniversary fundraiser

"Convergence of Winter", a vibe report on the ladybugs at Stream Trail from last weekend.

word on the street is that "ORB calendar is an intervention against bad rizz" you're welcome www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Getting ready to put together next week's calendar for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org ... Any great east bay events with a literary or place-focused bent, send then my way!

What could be better than sharing work with a creative community, and then stitching that together with MORE writing, talking about writing, thinking about what we can do together next

"Open Thing Bleeds into Another," a vibe report on Works in Progress at Local Economy, from a couple weeks ago. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/open-thing-b...

Oakland did nothing wrong: every fossil fuel company should go bankrupt. One down, many more to go.

Live, from the 510 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0gz...

teh calendar is up! If you click through to the website you get to see my favorite event of the week, which I FOROGT TO INCLUDE before we sent it to subscribers. Go to the website, there's a pretty picture of a magic eight ball on it.

The week in Oakland literary events (but all the world is a stage, etc, so in that sense, any event can be "literary" if you squint? Maybe?). Anyway, the ORB guide to the week to come: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/ Come!

ORB officially endorses Alex Werth's "On Loop" Book tour, which hits the bay this week. www.ebbooksellers.com/item/u60uZZa...

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 28 - November 2: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 28 - November 2: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Read the ORB interview with Luke on the part of his book that was about California, and "quotes-California": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...

We published two "parents having feelings" vibe reports today, from the OMCA last Friday: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/full/ and the zoo on Sunday: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/perimeter-1-5/

KALXON KLAXON KLAXON!! Amy Brown goes to Australia in Oakland, vibes the zoo train. I love this so much, and what a kicker.

bloggers grew up, had kids, and still get out of the house sometimes. Look at these babies loving that señora singing her heart out

"On a different night, I might have simply said, yeah, it was a little bit awkward how hard she was trying to get the crowd to respond." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/full/

"There’s a train that runs from Oakland to Australia." A vibe report from the zoo, from @amybrown.xyz with ominous emus: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/perimeter-1-5/

hello I wrote something short about getting stuck on the train at the zoo for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org. ominous photo of emus taken by the author.

Had a great chat with @zunguzungu.bsky.social for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org about We Had It Coming, California, and "California." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...

ORB chatted with the great @lukeoneil47.bsky.social about an expert from his upcoming book, We Had it Coming, about California, about how we have it coming, and about how he should move to Oakland: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...

Notes from the #nokings group chat, a vibe report: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/lobster-s/

This is such a great piece about a place I barely (but at least barely) know—but it is not just about Berkeley and that stretch of Telegraph, so read it even if you have never been—it is so good. (And by the way the shoes improved and that is o.k., maybe the one thing that is.)

It's obviously not the MAIN thing going on right now, but it is striking

Here's a full post with lots of information about what happened when CBP officers entered the base. oaklandside.org/2025/10/23/l...

when I told @zunguzungu.bsky.social about that book, he immediately read it & instead of just moving on like I did, he wrote this essay for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org : www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...

One of my favorite bookstore finds ever that I purely stumbled on in Copperfield's in San Rafael, is Cometbus's The Electric Menorah, a weird title for an amazing genealogy of Berkeley's bookstores and the other businesses and cultural creations they spawned.

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Bay Resistance is hosting a Zoom training tonight at 6 p.m. where Bay Area residents can get training in rapid response, community safety, and legal observing and learn about a mobilization plan for the day federal agents arrive: actionnetwork.org/events/stay-...

Hey!! Have you read @eafreem.bsky.social’s fantastic essay yet? If not … do! If so … do again! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/cassandra-at...

Aaron’s long essay on the People’s Park mural and Telegraph Ave in Berkeley + @reveleth.com’s recent reporting on the quest to save Esther’s Orbit Room’s iconic West Oakland facade make for one hell of a double feature on what gets remembered and why in the East Bay.

getting teary-eyed reading a treatise on memory and the crushing march of progress and what is perhaps the most consequential street corner in my life and now i'm getting teary-eyed thinking of mario's chicken soup which is basically my ratatouille from pixar's ratatouille

A reader corrected us that Herbert Marcuse was Osha Neumann's *father* not grandfather, as the piece initially stated; in our defense, A. facts are the enemy, and also B. the idea of being related to Herbert Marcuse is a little hard to take in and the mind takes refuge in error

one of the best things I've read in a long time: thoughtful, wry, kind of elegiac but determinedly not nostalgic. How does time move, who gets to direct its flow, what it feels like in the midst, on the changing ground

A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah," and Praising the Emptiness: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...

You simply cannot believe how many words I have written about Aaron Cometbus' Electric Menorah, but really about the muralization of history, no, about Telegraph Avenue and capitalism (but actually about the sixties, my mom, and about mourning mourning): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...

Update!

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 21 - October 26 (with a guest appearance by 2120 Broadway Ave): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

Look at this treasure of books and bookish events! And Friday is getting so fancy, like a cake with a million candies.

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 21 - October 26 (with a guest appearance by 2120 Broadway Ave): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/

ORB has published a few vibe reports from protests, and we'd like to publish more. Anyone want to write us a vibe report from the upcoming No Kings to-do? (Email in bio!)

Write up the vibes!

Now with a playlist, made by @eafreem.bsky.social herself! music.apple.com/us/playlist/...