Bookstores We Love Share the Books About Love They Love To Recommend
As Valentine’s Day approaches, it’s natural to think about love. We default to considering the bonds between two people, but love casts a wider net. In his book The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis broke it...
View ArticleSouth of Memory: M. O. Walsh Discusses ‘My Sunshine Away’
Event Information M.O. Walsh Author appearance for My Sunshine Away. Feb. 15, 2015 Book Passage, Corte Madera Details and tickets Feb. 16, 2015 Roaring Donkey, Petaluma Details and tickets The...
View ArticleMy Back Pages: Reading is Discovering
Every time a reader opens a book, a discovery is made. We find ourselves in a new world of words, an experience unique and ineffable. That sense of novelty can be addictive. Once we make that...
View ArticleThe Borderlands of Small Business: How to Save a Bookstore
The first “last dispatch” arrived on Feb. 1, 2015, from Alan Beatts. His store, Borderlands Books, had been in business for 18 years, and for the last several of those years, he’d been sending out...
View ArticleInterview: Erik Larson’s Fresh Eyes on a ‘Dead Wake’
Event Information Erik Larson Acclaimed author discusses new book. Apr. 14, 2015 Dominican University Details and tickets Erik Larson has a history of turning the history we think we know into...
View ArticleFighting the Laughter Drought: Humor Where You Least Expect To Find It
We live in an era of shortages. From water to income, there’s dearth of the things we need to make life livable — especially humor. Yes, we’re lucky to have writers like Dave Barry and Nick Hornby to...
View ArticleBeach Appropriate Reading: What to Read & Where to Read It
California is blessed with lots of great beaches, where we paradoxically go to ignore all that beauty and read. “Beach reading” books are typically designated to be trashy thrillers or romances, or...
View ArticleCreating a Generation of Virtual Thieves
Stephen Witt came of age in a generation of thieves. The theft was so easy, so ubiquitous, that it didn’t even feel like stealing. It only felt like keeping up. His story — our story, really — as told...
View ArticleNew Book says Blame Humans for Legal Injustice, Not the System
We have a justice problem in America. It’s obvious, even embarrassing. Our so-called system of justice churns out one bad verdict after another, followed closely by constant cries to reform the system....
View ArticleA Summer Reading List for Those Who Crave the Eclectic
Summer books, like summer movies, are generally widely promoted and easily found. Here are the books not so easily found that provide the pleasures of summer reading and leaven them with more than a...
View ArticleSex Robots and Prison in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’
The future does not replace the present. It’s slathered on top of it, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year. But moment by moment, we struggle with the minutia of our lives. Our...
View ArticleReally Weird Books for Fogged-in, Coast-Side Reading this Summer
I live by the beach, and we know that summer begins when the sun disappears towards the end of May, for about three months. That’s when it becomes the land of The Crawling Eye, a z-budget movie from...
View ArticleScience Fiction Futures You’ll Want to Work to Prevent
Science fiction set in the future is often taken to be a prediction of that future. But writers rarely claim to come from the day after tomorrow. Until we can time travel, we have to assume that our...
View ArticleHistories You Won’t Want to See Repeated
Has it only been 112 years since George Santayana wrote, in The Life of Reason, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”? A well-written, engrossing history can bring the past to...
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