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"content": "\u003cp>It’s inevitable: As soon as I’m too busy to read for pleasure, all I want to do is dig into a new novel. So it somehow seems fitting that during this month of school starting and nose-to-the grindstone necessity, we’re having a glut of alluring young adult releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three books that caught my fancy this month look wildly different on the surface. Traci Chee’s \u003cem>The Reader\u003c/em> follows multiple characters through a fantasy world where pirates sail the waves and a secret society seeks to hoard the written word. \u003cem>Labyrinth Lost\u003c/em> by Zoraida Córdova draws inspiration from Latin American cultures to offer up modern teen witches on a journey through the spirit realm, and Sarah Glenn Marsh’s novel \u003cem>Fear the Drowning Deep \u003c/em>paints a portrait of a little fishing village in 1913, where people are disappearing and creatures out of Manx folklore may be to blame. They have different cultural influences and different types of narrative – so imagine my surprise when I began to feel like these three books were circling in the same orbit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/LabyrinthLost.jpg\" alt=\"Labyrinth Lost\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12149465\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First and foremost, all three focus on girls who must come to terms with magic. \u003cem>The Reader\u003c/em> gives us Sefia, a girl on the run from her past with a forbidden book in her pack and a strange ability to divine the stories of the people that she meets. \u003cem>In Labyrinth Lost\u003c/em>, we meet Alex, the world’s most reluctant \u003cem>bruja\u003c/em>, who is so desperate to be rid of her powers that she accidentally curses her entire family. And then there’s Bridey, a girl who hates the sea and seems to be the only one noticing that her village is being menaced by monsters. All of these girls are uncomfortable in their skins, haunted by having failed to protect the people they loved, and so deeply in denial that I wish they could form some kind of teenage magic victim support group. And while they all have very different journeys to make, self — acceptance is a key destination for all three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so is falling for boys who have even more scars than they do — both literally and metaphorically. A collar of scar tissue and memory loss, creeping tattoos and a devil-may-care attitude, sea monster bites and (even more) memory loss: These boys are nothing but sweet, sweet trouble. It’s hard not to fall a little bit in love, but I would not be quite so forgiving of some of the dark pasts lurking just beneath the surface. Maybe forgiving others will help our girls be kinder to themselves – or maybe it will make them step closer to the darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FearDrowningDeep.jpg\" alt=\"'Fear the Droening Deep'\" width=\"388\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12149460\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, all three books revel in creating strong ties between the girls and their female family members and friends. Sefia stops running and takes control of her destiny when her aunt Nin is kidnapped. Above all, she is motived by her desire to save the woman who protected her and taught her how to survive when she lost her parents. Alex must claim her magic in order to rescue her sisters and her mother (along with the rest of her relations, living and dead) from the spirit world, and finds strength in her blossoming relationship with her best friend, Rishi. Bridey puts aside her terror of the sea in order to protect her sisters and her best friend from the creatures that are threatening the village. All of these women have complex, interesting relationships that give depth to their fantastic worlds. I actually wish that all three books had focused even more on these elements — I would have happily spared a little screen time with Byronic boys in exchange!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, those in search of magical adventure to liven up that back — to — school reading list will find these to be three very enjoyable books that sing in harmony when read in close succession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/TheReader.jpg\" alt=\"'The Reader'\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12149461\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Caitlyn Paxson is a writer and performer. She is an editor at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://goblinfruit.net/\">Goblin Fruit\u003c/a>, \u003cem>and can be found discussing folklore and pop culture on the\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://fakelore.the-back-row.com/\">Fakelore Podcast.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In her second memoir \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/249083/m-train-by-patti-smith/9781101910160/\">M Train\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> released in paperback this month, Patti Smith writes about a black coat given to her on her fifty-seventh birthday; an “ill-fitting, unlined” Comme des Garçons overcoat that she had “secretly coveted” despite — or perhaps because of — its frayed sleeves, moth gnawings, unstitched pocket seams, and tattered hem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every morning, I got up, put on my coat and watch cap, grabbed my pen and notebook, and headed across Sixth Avenue to my cafe. I loved my coat and the cafe and my morning routine. It was the clearest and simplest expression of my solitary identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12116820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12116820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger.jpg\" alt=\"Patti Smith, from 'M Train.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-400x314.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-764x600.jpg 764w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patti Smith, from ‘M Train.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every time I put it on I felt like myself,” writes Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, after being replaced by a warmer winter coat, the Comme des Garçons overcoat disappears. Smith is left to mourn its lost existence, and the piece of her identity that’s vanished along with it. Underneath this, of course, lies a greater void, left by the death in 1994 of her husband Fred Smith, and her brother who \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20080611145837/http://www.aristarec.com/psmith/smithbio.html\">died suddenly\u003c/a> one month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before reading about Patti Smith’s coat, I’d never thought of an item of clothing in this particular way, as an item that provides both a barrier between skin and the outside world, and a sacred object that would allow me to construct myself in my own image. For me, clothes have long been a source of confusion, just another patriarchal complication in an overly complicated world. I’ve moved between wearing the same butchered jean shorts for an entire summer to guzzling fast fashion in a desperate attempt to look hot (ugh, early thirties), to where I stand now, somewhere between tired, under-coiffed yoga mom and clothing-swap chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12104204 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/c6243e47fa6d79000bdac49cb7c98b4a.jpg\" alt=\"c6243e47fa6d79000bdac49cb7c98b4a\" width=\"236\" height=\"355\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What identity do my clothes give me?\u003c/em> I began to wonder. \u003cem>Do I have my own version of the Comme des Garçons coat?\u003c/em> The closest, I figure, is a Levi’s jean jacket, bought for $10 at a thrift store and fitted with a purple \u003ca href=\"http://otherwild.com/products/the-future-is-female-pin\">The Future is Female\u003c/a> pin, a combination that makes me feel happy, sharp, and middle-aged yet still connected to my edgier past. I found the pin at a small boutique in Sebastopol and bought it on the spot despite a $12 price tag; the one-sentence feminist manifesto completed the jacket, added that edge I needed to feel like myself in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, I’ve never been a friend to fashion. Sure, I like a nice pair of dangling earrings and a well-fitting soft cotton dress as much as the next woman, but it’s not something I’ve ever wanted to confess out loud for fear of being superficial. There are way more \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/09/22/tulsa-officer-who-fatally-shot-terrence-crutcher-charged-with-first-degree-manslaughter/?utm_term=.31e8c0d55328\">important\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-raids-pound-rebel-held-aleppo-syria-army-074917338.html\">issues\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-raids-pound-rebel-held-aleppo-syria-army-074917338.html\">in the world\u003c/a> to consider than whether my boots match my purse. Would that I just cultivated a uniform, a few choice items that fit well, work together, and let me get on with my day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12104203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12104203\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10.jpg\" alt=\"Patti Smith 1975 Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989 ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/AR00185\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-400x397.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-604x600.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-768x763.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-1180x1172.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-960x954.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patti Smith, 1975, by Robert Mapplethorpe.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, though, I’ve come to understand that there’s more to this style thing than I’d known. Patti Smith, for one, might not abide by the latest fashion, but she has cultivated a specific, iconic style parallel with a considerable intellect. She can love a coat, and how it makes her feel, and also be a potent modern philosopher. The two can coexist outside of a binary. Style has more than one value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thus, Patti Smith’s coat started me started me on the path to thinking about style and clothing and how it manifests in my life. As I always do, I studied books to help me sort out my questions. I started with \u003ca href=\"http://into-mind.com/curatedcloset/\">\u003cem>The Curated Closet\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Ten Speed Press; 2016), a new book by Anuschka Rees, a style blogger from Berlin. I first discovered Rees’ blog \u003ca href=\"http://into-mind.com/\">INTO MIND \u003c/a>two years ago when, in an attempt to develop the perfect uniform and cut down on decisions, I began to obsessively Google “capsule wardrobes.” In her book, Rees argues that personal style trumps fashion; it’s up to you to discover that personal style through study, observation, and instinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most women think you have to be fashionable to be well-dressed. And that’s what I thought too until only a few years ago. But here’s what I’ve learned since: Some of the biggest style icons of the last century were people who explicitly did not follow every new trend out there and instead had their own very distinctive looks from which they rarely strayed. Think Marlene Dietrich, Grace Jones, or Marilyn Monroe and also modern style icons like Jenna Lyons, Tilda Swinton or Angelina Jolie. In fact, some of the most consistent style icons of today come from the fashion industry itself, like Karl Lagerfield, Anna Wintour, and Emmanualle Alt. All these people are stylish, not despite the fact that they don’t follow trends, but because of it. They know exactly what they like and what they don’t like. Their style is iconic because it is completely authentic.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12107989\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Curated-Closet-book-cover-1-e1474642228706.jpg\" alt=\"Curated Closet - book cover-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"712\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rees goes on to challenge the idea of being effortlessly stylish. Like anything, developing personal style takes legwork, experimentation, time, and work. It’s a “skill like any other” and takes practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many people have the misconception that a great sense of style is one of those things you either have or don’t have. They imagine that people who are well-dressed simply get up in the morning and, through some act of divine inspiration, come up with a perfectly original and brilliant new outfit idea.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rees then jumps into the actual work of deciphering style. Step 1: document your outfits for two weeks and keep a log of the when and why the outfit was worn. I love a good assignment, and leaped at the task, although it felt vain, at first, to be shooting full-body selfies of myself in a mirror. But, I did it. So far, the main thing I’ve discovered is that I like to wear the same shoes every single day. And that I feel most comfortable in black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12107802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"20160923_071517-COLLAGE\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I continued to think about all of this, I turned to the public library, checking out \u003cem>Women in Clothes\u003c/em> (Blue Rider Press; 2014) by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Sharpton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheila Heti said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/04/345290998/for-women-in-clothes-its-not-what-you-wear-its-why-you-wear-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an NPR interview\u003c/a> that the idea for the book — which collects interviews, photos, compliments, dressing tips, and style manifestos from a disparate array of women, famous and not — came from a desire to free clothing from the superficial, patronizing language of fashion magazines. Heti, who admits to not thinking much about clothes for most of her life, said that she “woke up one day and I just thought, ‘Today’s the day that I want to figure out how to dress.’ You know, I wanted to know what other women thought about as they got dressed: how they knew what to buy in the store, how they knew what they wanted to wear. I wanted to sort of figure out what my taste was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12116821\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/womeninclothes.lrg_.jpg\" alt=\"womeninclothes.lrg\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book’s core derives from a survey, an “ever-evolving” list of questions sent out to women worldwide. In total, there are over 100 questions, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Do you think you have taste or style?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Can you say a bit about how your mother’s body and style have been passed down to you or not?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What are some things you admire about how other women present themselves?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Do you notice women on the street?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What is really beautiful, for you, in general?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What do you consider very ugly?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What’s your process of getting dressed in the morning?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What would you say is “you,” and what would you say is “not you”?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Is it comforting or constraining to have a uniform?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But more than simply asking questions, the book legitimizes the study of what women wear and why they choose to wear it. One way it accomplishes this is by including a diverse, dynamic chorus of women’s voices, stories, confessions, and demands about style (or refusal of same).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12107990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12107990\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/women1_wide-94268c08669e164170967943bf239fbef1f28ea9-s900-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Six strangers where one another's favorite outfits by Miranda July (from Women in Clothes) \" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/women1_wide-94268c08669e164170967943bf239fbef1f28ea9-s900-c85.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/women1_wide-94268c08669e164170967943bf239fbef1f28ea9-s900-c85-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/women1_wide-94268c08669e164170967943bf239fbef1f28ea9-s900-c85-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/women1_wide-94268c08669e164170967943bf239fbef1f28ea9-s900-c85-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six strangers wear one another’s favorite outfits by Miranda July (from Women in Clothes)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Women in Clothes\u003c/em> serves as an invaluable companion as I indulge, with somewhat furtive embarrassment, in figuring out my own personal style. The book operates like a group of hundreds of smart friends who say, “It’s okay to think about these things. It doesn’t make you less feminist. It doesn’t make you superficial. It doesn’t mean you’ve gone to the dark Kardashian side of the universe. It’s okay to interrogate how you present to the world and why. We’re all thinking about it too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Patti Smith’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityarts.net/event/patti-smith/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Arts and Lectures appearance on Oct. 4\u003c/a> is sold out. To get a Smith fix, check out \u003ca href=\"https://mcam.mills.edu/exhibitions/current1.php\">Root Connection: 20 Years of Patti Smith\u003c/a>, a collection of photos, wriitngs and ephemera running through Dec. 11 at Mills College.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In her second memoir \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/249083/m-train-by-patti-smith/9781101910160/\">M Train\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> released in paperback this month, Patti Smith writes about a black coat given to her on her fifty-seventh birthday; an “ill-fitting, unlined” Comme des Garçons overcoat that she had “secretly coveted” despite — or perhaps because of — its frayed sleeves, moth gnawings, unstitched pocket seams, and tattered hem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Every morning, I got up, put on my coat and watch cap, grabbed my pen and notebook, and headed across Sixth Avenue to my cafe. I loved my coat and the cafe and my morning routine. It was the clearest and simplest expression of my solitary identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12116820\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12116820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger.jpg\" alt=\"Patti Smith, from 'M Train.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-400x314.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-764x600.jpg 764w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/SmithMTRain.bigger-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patti Smith, from ‘M Train.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every time I put it on I felt like myself,” writes Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, after being replaced by a warmer winter coat, the Comme des Garçons overcoat disappears. Smith is left to mourn its lost existence, and the piece of her identity that’s vanished along with it. Underneath this, of course, lies a greater void, left by the death in 1994 of her husband Fred Smith, and her brother who \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20080611145837/http://www.aristarec.com/psmith/smithbio.html\">died suddenly\u003c/a> one month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before reading about Patti Smith’s coat, I’d never thought of an item of clothing in this particular way, as an item that provides both a barrier between skin and the outside world, and a sacred object that would allow me to construct myself in my own image. For me, clothes have long been a source of confusion, just another patriarchal complication in an overly complicated world. I’ve moved between wearing the same butchered jean shorts for an entire summer to guzzling fast fashion in a desperate attempt to look hot (ugh, early thirties), to where I stand now, somewhere between tired, under-coiffed yoga mom and clothing-swap chic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12104204 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/c6243e47fa6d79000bdac49cb7c98b4a.jpg\" alt=\"c6243e47fa6d79000bdac49cb7c98b4a\" width=\"236\" height=\"355\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What identity do my clothes give me?\u003c/em> I began to wonder. \u003cem>Do I have my own version of the Comme des Garçons coat?\u003c/em> The closest, I figure, is a Levi’s jean jacket, bought for $10 at a thrift store and fitted with a purple \u003ca href=\"http://otherwild.com/products/the-future-is-female-pin\">The Future is Female\u003c/a> pin, a combination that makes me feel happy, sharp, and middle-aged yet still connected to my edgier past. I found the pin at a small boutique in Sebastopol and bought it on the spot despite a $12 price tag; the one-sentence feminist manifesto completed the jacket, added that edge I needed to feel like myself in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, I’ve never been a friend to fashion. Sure, I like a nice pair of dangling earrings and a well-fitting soft cotton dress as much as the next woman, but it’s not something I’ve ever wanted to confess out loud for fear of being superficial. There are way more \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/09/22/tulsa-officer-who-fatally-shot-terrence-crutcher-charged-with-first-degree-manslaughter/?utm_term=.31e8c0d55328\">important\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-raids-pound-rebel-held-aleppo-syria-army-074917338.html\">issues\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-raids-pound-rebel-held-aleppo-syria-army-074917338.html\">in the world\u003c/a> to consider than whether my boots match my purse. Would that I just cultivated a uniform, a few choice items that fit well, work together, and let me get on with my day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12104203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12104203\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10.jpg\" alt=\"Patti Smith 1975 Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989 ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/AR00185\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1526\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-400x397.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-604x600.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-768x763.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-1180x1172.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-960x954.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/AR00185_10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patti Smith, 1975, by Robert Mapplethorpe.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, though, I’ve come to understand that there’s more to this style thing than I’d known. Patti Smith, for one, might not abide by the latest fashion, but she has cultivated a specific, iconic style parallel with a considerable intellect. She can love a coat, and how it makes her feel, and also be a potent modern philosopher. The two can coexist outside of a binary. Style has more than one value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thus, Patti Smith’s coat started me started me on the path to thinking about style and clothing and how it manifests in my life. As I always do, I studied books to help me sort out my questions. I started with \u003ca href=\"http://into-mind.com/curatedcloset/\">\u003cem>The Curated Closet\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Ten Speed Press; 2016), a new book by Anuschka Rees, a style blogger from Berlin. I first discovered Rees’ blog \u003ca href=\"http://into-mind.com/\">INTO MIND \u003c/a>two years ago when, in an attempt to develop the perfect uniform and cut down on decisions, I began to obsessively Google “capsule wardrobes.” In her book, Rees argues that personal style trumps fashion; it’s up to you to discover that personal style through study, observation, and instinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Most women think you have to be fashionable to be well-dressed. And that’s what I thought too until only a few years ago. But here’s what I’ve learned since: Some of the biggest style icons of the last century were people who explicitly did not follow every new trend out there and instead had their own very distinctive looks from which they rarely strayed. Think Marlene Dietrich, Grace Jones, or Marilyn Monroe and also modern style icons like Jenna Lyons, Tilda Swinton or Angelina Jolie. In fact, some of the most consistent style icons of today come from the fashion industry itself, like Karl Lagerfield, Anna Wintour, and Emmanualle Alt. All these people are stylish, not despite the fact that they don’t follow trends, but because of it. They know exactly what they like and what they don’t like. Their style is iconic because it is completely authentic.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12107989\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Curated-Closet-book-cover-1-e1474642228706.jpg\" alt=\"Curated Closet - book cover-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"712\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rees goes on to challenge the idea of being effortlessly stylish. Like anything, developing personal style takes legwork, experimentation, time, and work. It’s a “skill like any other” and takes practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many people have the misconception that a great sense of style is one of those things you either have or don’t have. They imagine that people who are well-dressed simply get up in the morning and, through some act of divine inspiration, come up with a perfectly original and brilliant new outfit idea.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rees then jumps into the actual work of deciphering style. Step 1: document your outfits for two weeks and keep a log of the when and why the outfit was worn. I love a good assignment, and leaped at the task, although it felt vain, at first, to be shooting full-body selfies of myself in a mirror. But, I did it. So far, the main thing I’ve discovered is that I like to wear the same shoes every single day. And that I feel most comfortable in black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12107802\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"20160923_071517-COLLAGE\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/20160923_071517-COLLAGE.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I continued to think about all of this, I turned to the public library, checking out \u003cem>Women in Clothes\u003c/em> (Blue Rider Press; 2014) by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Sharpton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheila Heti said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/09/04/345290998/for-women-in-clothes-its-not-what-you-wear-its-why-you-wear-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an NPR interview\u003c/a> that the idea for the book — which collects interviews, photos, compliments, dressing tips, and style manifestos from a disparate array of women, famous and not — came from a desire to free clothing from the superficial, patronizing language of fashion magazines. Heti, who admits to not thinking much about clothes for most of her life, said that she “woke up one day and I just thought, ‘Today’s the day that I want to figure out how to dress.’ You know, I wanted to know what other women thought about as they got dressed: how they knew what to buy in the store, how they knew what they wanted to wear. I wanted to sort of figure out what my taste was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12116821\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/womeninclothes.lrg_.jpg\" alt=\"womeninclothes.lrg\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book’s core derives from a survey, an “ever-evolving” list of questions sent out to women worldwide. In total, there are over 100 questions, such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Do you think you have taste or style?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Can you say a bit about how your mother’s body and style have been passed down to you or not?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What are some things you admire about how other women present themselves?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Do you notice women on the street?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What is really beautiful, for you, in general?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What do you consider very ugly?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What’s your process of getting dressed in the morning?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>What would you say is “you,” and what would you say is “not you”?\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Is it comforting or constraining to have a uniform?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But more than simply asking questions, the book legitimizes the study of what women wear and why they choose to wear it. 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An artist named Max Neuhaus created it almost 40 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s this kind of sonic secret, just tucked away,” Thuras says. “Almost nobody stops and says, ‘What is that strange noise?’ ” Because, of course, the Hum is surrounded by noise: car horns, street performers, crowds, squeaking brakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, it sort of serves as this wonderful reminder that in the middle of all this madness — in what I think most people would find the most commercial, least sort of whimsical or magical place in Manhattan — is this kind of little gem waiting for you if you’re willing to sort of slow down, look around, listen and kind of start asking questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does he ever worry about Atlas Obscura running out of wonders to write about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We asked ourselves this question at the start,” Thuras says, “and so far the answer seems to be: It is infinite.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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It’s called \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-new-york-earth-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Earth Room\u003c/a>, “which is what it sounds like,” Thuras says: “It is 280,000 pounds of dirt that has been sitting in a room in a SoHo loft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12096239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Atlas-Obscura-Flckr-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Manhattan's long-shuttered City Hall subway station has hanging chandeliers and arched ceilings that are covered in green and white tiles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12096239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Atlas-Obscura-Flckr.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Atlas-Obscura-Flckr-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Atlas-Obscura-Flckr-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manhattan’s long-shuttered City Hall subway station has hanging chandeliers and arched ceilings that are covered in green and white tiles. \u003ccite>(Photo: Julian Dunn/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A little sign outside instructs visitors to buzz in and walk up to the second floor. There, they’ll find a loft in which the entire floor is covered in “rich, nicely groomed-looking dirt,” as Thuras describes it. Somebody has raked and misted the dirt every week since De Maria created the work in 1977. “It’s got the real smell of a forest floor,” Thuras says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish tourist Juan Carlos Fernandez’s visit coincided with NPR’s. He says he’s wanted to visit the Earth Room since 1986, “but for different reasons every time we were here in the city, we couldn’t.” Was it worth the 30-year wait? Fernandez says yes. “I am so thrilled right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Earth Room, it’s time for lunch at the kind of restaurant Atlas Obscura loves. “We are going to \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/el-sabroso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Sabroso\u003c/a>, which is a small South American lunch counter in a freight elevator entrance,” Thuras says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant is in Midtown in a sort of loading dock. Behind the counter, a cook tends to eight pots bubbling on a small stove. Seating consists of a long folding table with plastic chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuras says, “In a way, there’s a history here because Midtown has always been home to garment workers and people, you know, who were kind of working on a tighter budget, and that’s still true today. So there’s a few remaining … old school lunch counters where you can get a great meal for like $6. … And it’s killer. It’s like super killer.” (He’s not kidding. It was the best $6 lunch this reporter has had in a long time.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thuras is the kind of traveler who will pack every minute of a day with experiences. After lunch, he leads NPR to \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/toynbee-tiles-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mysterious tiles embedded in the roadway\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gimbel-s-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shuttered art deco skywalk\u003c/a> that is completely sealed off to the world and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-conjuring-arts-research-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conjuring Arts Research Center\u003c/a>, one of the world’s largest collections of books about magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last stop on his tour is an easily overlooked wonder in the middle of Times Square. It’s called \u003ca href=\"http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-times-square-hum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Times Square Hum\u003c/a> and it comes from under a metal grate on a pedestrian island. (You can hear it for yourself in the audio story above.) 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by LA Johnson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the Small Press Expo, or SPX, for 10 years now. This year, I convinced NPR to let me take a reporting kit and interview attendees about what drew them to the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(You can check out more photos, illustrations and interviews with creators from the 2016 Small Press Expo on the \u003ca href=\"http://nprillustration.tumblr.com/\">NPR Illustrations Tumblr\u003c/a> over the coming days and weeks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, SPX seems a lot like many of the other comic-cons that have been popping up across the country over the last few years. There’s the vast exhibit floor, there’s a packed schedule of panels and spotlights featuring interviews of, and discussions between, various comics creators. People mill about, lugging bags loaded down with stuff they’ve bought, or find an empty patch of carpeted hallway on which to plop themselves and rest while perusing their purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you close your eyes, its sounds a lot like any other con: the low, steady murmur of voices punctuated by the occasional exclamation of delight or surprise from someone who’s stumbling across an old friend — or a new passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the moment you open your eyes, you’re reminded that SPX isn’t like most other cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s smaller, for one thing — the big shows in San Diego and New York attract upwards of 130,000 people, and SPX’s attendance is closer to 3,000. It fills the huge ballroom at a hotel in North Bethesda, Maryland, but unlike other comic-cons, where companies build massive booths that tower over you with video screens, loudly hawking all manner of comics-adjacent stuff like toys, games, statues and t-shirts, everything at SPX is at eye-level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-level, technically, as it’s just rows and rows of folding tables piled with comics and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"The Small Press Expo holds a yearly lottery for some of the tables, which allows for new artists to exhibit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12095859\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Small Press Expo holds a yearly lottery for some of the tables, which allows for new artists to exhibit. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of SPX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funkier, Smaller, More Approachable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just a way to sell comics or buy comics,” said Whit Taylor, from New York City. “It’s also a social event … a chance to catch up with people, and meet new people both during the show and after the show and that’s kind of the most meaningful part to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whit came not just to buy comics, but to connect with the people who make them. And SPX is built around making exactly that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a convention for independent comics. People define “indie comics” differently, but for our purposes: not Marvel, and not DC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that it kinda sticks to just comics,” Whit said. “That’s how it started out. I know that shows can kinda go in different directions. I’m happy to see merch here and there, but I like that it’s just about independent artists or small presses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some small presses \u003cem>do\u003c/em> set up tables at the Small Press Expo, fittingly enough — publishers like Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics are SPX staples — but mostly, it’s men and women sitting or standing behind the tables, grinning earnestly at passersby to get them to stop and sample their work. That work could be a handsomely bound graphic novel, a print, or, in many cases, a mini-comic that they’ve drawn and copied and stapled together themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Elizabeth drove up from Williamsburg, Virginia, and she appreciated that many of these comics are made without the usual gatekeepers — which affects who gets to make them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really like about this one so far is that there’s a lot more queer comics,” she said, “a lot more comics by women here, specifically women of color, that’s what stuck out to me the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Hathaway from Philadelphia came to support the creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s independent comics, you know I give a lot of credit to a lot of these artists because they really believe in what they’re doing,” she said. “They have a passion for it, they’re spending a lot of their own money and resources to promote themselves so they must believe in themselves, and I like that independent, alternative type of comic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Liz is also here for a more practical reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to get a feel of how they promote themselves,” she said. “I have a comic called \u003cem>The Hellwood Kids\u003c/em>, and it’s coming out next year, so I’m trying to get a feel of, you know. How they lay out everything and they show their comics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Con About The Craft of Comics-Making\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that Liz, and Whit Taylor, and 18 out of the 25 people I approached at random last weekend, make comics themselves. (Three of those 25 turned out to be NPR interns — make of that what you will.) That’s something else that sets this con apart, and has since it began in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well it was started by a bunch of local DC people who basically revolted against the mainstream superhero conventions,” said Warren Bernard, Executive Director of SPX. “They were like, why can’t we independent comics people get together with self-published people … and they had their first con over in Silver Spring back in 1994.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason it grew to its current size, he said, is that today, “Many more people are activated by comics that aren’t superheroes — now that’s not taking anything away from superhero comics, I happen to like reading them — but there’s this other universe that’s everything but. And that’s what SPX is all about: everything but superheroes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the people who come to SPX each year are not looking to score big Hollywood development deals. They’re driven by a different ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s part of what keeps SPX a little bit separate is that, you know, people are here for the art and the craft,” he said. “Whether you’re an attendee coming in and wanting to do stuff yourself, or you’re a creator that’s hanging out with all the other creators or just an attendee that kind of enjoys it, that is the thing that ties everyone together is the art and the craft, kinda combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Small Press Expo brings together fans and creators of independent comics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12095860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Small Press Expo brings together fans and creators of independent comics. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of SPX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stepping Stone to Wider Success\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say that big development deals don’t happen. Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon send people to SPX every year to scout for talent. Rebecca Sugar, who created the TV show \u003cem>Steven Universe\u003c/em>, put in her time behind a table at SPX. So did Lisa Hanawalt, whose distinctive character designs can now be seen on the Netflix series \u003cem>Bojack Horseman\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Additional reporting by LA Johnson.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve attended the Small Press Expo, or SPX, for 10 years now. This year, I convinced NPR to let me take a reporting kit and interview attendees about what drew them to the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(You can check out more photos, illustrations and interviews with creators from the 2016 Small Press Expo on the \u003ca href=\"http://nprillustration.tumblr.com/\">NPR Illustrations Tumblr\u003c/a> over the coming days and weeks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, SPX seems a lot like many of the other comic-cons that have been popping up across the country over the last few years. There’s the vast exhibit floor, there’s a packed schedule of panels and spotlights featuring interviews of, and discussions between, various comics creators. People mill about, lugging bags loaded down with stuff they’ve bought, or find an empty patch of carpeted hallway on which to plop themselves and rest while perusing their purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you close your eyes, its sounds a lot like any other con: the low, steady murmur of voices punctuated by the occasional exclamation of delight or surprise from someone who’s stumbling across an old friend — or a new passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the moment you open your eyes, you’re reminded that SPX isn’t like most other cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s smaller, for one thing — the big shows in San Diego and New York attract upwards of 130,000 people, and SPX’s attendance is closer to 3,000. It fills the huge ballroom at a hotel in North Bethesda, Maryland, but unlike other comic-cons, where companies build massive booths that tower over you with video screens, loudly hawking all manner of comics-adjacent stuff like toys, games, statues and t-shirts, everything at SPX is at eye-level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-level, technically, as it’s just rows and rows of folding tables piled with comics and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"The Small Press Expo holds a yearly lottery for some of the tables, which allows for new artists to exhibit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12095859\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-400x265.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-1180x781.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74-960x636.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-3_enl-b862e97d57eb3bba7e68cc080bd931654d963a74.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Small Press Expo holds a yearly lottery for some of the tables, which allows for new artists to exhibit. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of SPX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Funkier, Smaller, More Approachable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just a way to sell comics or buy comics,” said Whit Taylor, from New York City. “It’s also a social event … a chance to catch up with people, and meet new people both during the show and after the show and that’s kind of the most meaningful part to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whit came not just to buy comics, but to connect with the people who make them. And SPX is built around making exactly that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a convention for independent comics. People define “indie comics” differently, but for our purposes: not Marvel, and not DC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that it kinda sticks to just comics,” Whit said. “That’s how it started out. I know that shows can kinda go in different directions. I’m happy to see merch here and there, but I like that it’s just about independent artists or small presses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some small presses \u003cem>do\u003c/em> set up tables at the Small Press Expo, fittingly enough — publishers like Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics are SPX staples — but mostly, it’s men and women sitting or standing behind the tables, grinning earnestly at passersby to get them to stop and sample their work. That work could be a handsomely bound graphic novel, a print, or, in many cases, a mini-comic that they’ve drawn and copied and stapled together themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Elizabeth drove up from Williamsburg, Virginia, and she appreciated that many of these comics are made without the usual gatekeepers — which affects who gets to make them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really like about this one so far is that there’s a lot more queer comics,” she said, “a lot more comics by women here, specifically women of color, that’s what stuck out to me the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Hathaway from Philadelphia came to support the creators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s independent comics, you know I give a lot of credit to a lot of these artists because they really believe in what they’re doing,” she said. “They have a passion for it, they’re spending a lot of their own money and resources to promote themselves so they must believe in themselves, and I like that independent, alternative type of comic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Liz is also here for a more practical reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to get a feel of how they promote themselves,” she said. “I have a comic called \u003cem>The Hellwood Kids\u003c/em>, and it’s coming out next year, so I’m trying to get a feel of, you know. How they lay out everything and they show their comics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Con About The Craft of Comics-Making\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out that Liz, and Whit Taylor, and 18 out of the 25 people I approached at random last weekend, make comics themselves. (Three of those 25 turned out to be NPR interns — make of that what you will.) That’s something else that sets this con apart, and has since it began in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well it was started by a bunch of local DC people who basically revolted against the mainstream superhero conventions,” said Warren Bernard, Executive Director of SPX. “They were like, why can’t we independent comics people get together with self-published people … and they had their first con over in Silver Spring back in 1994.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason it grew to its current size, he said, is that today, “Many more people are activated by comics that aren’t superheroes — now that’s not taking anything away from superhero comics, I happen to like reading them — but there’s this other universe that’s everything but. And that’s what SPX is all about: everything but superheroes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the people who come to SPX each year are not looking to score big Hollywood development deals. They’re driven by a different ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s part of what keeps SPX a little bit separate is that, you know, people are here for the art and the craft,” he said. “Whether you’re an attendee coming in and wanting to do stuff yourself, or you’re a creator that’s hanging out with all the other creators or just an attendee that kind of enjoys it, that is the thing that ties everyone together is the art and the craft, kinda combined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Small Press Expo brings together fans and creators of independent comics.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12095860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/spx-sat-2_enl-a3e3c493b08e32ec2c3deb139ace989dae2c692a.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Small Press Expo brings together fans and creators of independent comics. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of SPX)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stepping Stone to Wider Success\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say that big development deals don’t happen. Cartoon Network, Disney and Nickelodeon send people to SPX every year to scout for talent. Rebecca Sugar, who created the TV show \u003cem>Steven Universe\u003c/em>, put in her time behind a table at SPX. So did Lisa Hanawalt, whose distinctive character designs can now be seen on the Netflix series \u003cem>Bojack Horseman\u003c/em>. Raina Telgemeier sold her mini-comics here, back in the day, as did many other creators who’ve gone on to huge commercial success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several established indie comics creators said they love coming back to SPX, for various reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly [we come to SPX] because it’s part of the world that we live in, and that we came up in, and it’s cool to see all these people doing what they want to do instead of what they have to do for money,” said Jaime Hernandez, half of Los Bros Hernandez, the team behind the venerable, and venerated, alt-series \u003cem>Love and Rockets\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have really liked about SPX is it’s a comics festival which is more or less only about the things that I like about comics,” said Tom Gauld, creator of deadpan comics marvels \u003cem>You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mooncop\u003c/em>. “It’s not about movies of comics, it’s not about toys related to comics, it’s not about superhero comics, it’s more or less about whatever you call the thing that I do. 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Huntley, in fact, was one of four full-time nannies (with some “special guest stars,” as she puts it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntley wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2016/06/24/how_to_be_a_soho_nanny_and_survive_just_barely/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an essay for Salon\u003c/a> about the job — how the nannies hung out by the refrigerator, out of range of the surveillance cameras, trying to figure out when their boss would be home (her text symbol was the alien-face emoji and her code name was ‘Filbert,’ the least desirable of the nuts), and charging green juices on her credit card to relieve stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>We Could Be Beautiful\u003c/em>, this world is humanized with family. Catherine has a clinging sister; a mother with Alzheimer’s; and an equally rich friend, Susan, who runs a much more successful store that sells bonsai trees. Catherine feels incomplete, and she wants a family of her own. At 43, with two engagements that haven’t worked out — including one to a man who told Catherine she was a bad hugger and left her to marry an older woman — Catherine feels her time to get married and have a baby may be running out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when she meets William Stockton, a banker whose family knew her family, and he seems smitten, she’s more than willing to overlook his dog, Herman, who she doesn’t like, and her mother’s reaction to him — which seems extreme even for her mother who doesn’t really like anyone. Even though she’s still unhappy, Catherine convinces herself marriage to William will be the answer, and she desperately wants to stay together even as her doubts about him grow. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I remember thinking, The couple that laughs together stays together. I was always doing that. The couple that strolls together stays together. The couple that goes to restaurants together stays together. The couple that hangs art together stays together. If there was anything to hold on to, I was holding on to it very tightly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 508px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Huntley.\" width=\"508\" height=\"749\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12095479\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley.jpg 508w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley-400x590.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley-407x600.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swan Huntley. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Latimer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntley says the recent spate of novels about the wealthy may fill a need for entertainment and diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people dream of being rich, and what you would do if you had a million dollars is a fascinating question,” she says. “Also, the stakes probably feel lower than with real-world problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>We Could Be Beautiful\u003c/em>, Catherine’s growing concern about William’s secretiveness and her mother’s antipathy leads to suspense that has critics calling the book a psychological thriller. Huntley, who has always wanted to be a writer, says she didn’t think of it that way, but with two previous unpublished manuscripts, she did plan for this one to be different. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided that things were going to happen in this book,” she said. “I wanted to have a plot, and that meant outlining.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few more things from Huntley’s experience in Manhattan made their way into the book. When she left her nanny job, she wrote a letter to her former boss’ little girl. She thought having Catherine find a letter from her former nanny would be a good plot device. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After finding the letter, Catherine tracks down her former nanny… who lives in a commune in Brooklyn. That seems a bit much, right? A commune in Brooklyn, in 2016? But this is another detail that comes from Huntley’s life. A colleague at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.macdowellcolony.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacDowell Colony\u003c/a> told her about a commune in Fort Green, and Huntley ended up living there during her nanny job. She always thought she’d write about the commune. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, how could you not?” she said. “It’s so unexpected, and they exist everywhere, and it’s a wonderful place to live on the cheap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntley also used her experience of living part-time on Kona for her next book, \u003cem>The Goddesses\u003c/em>, which comes out next summer. About a woman who becomes friends with her yoga teacher, it’s being billed as \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em> meets \u003cem>Single White Female\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Huntley reads from ‘We Could Be Beautiful’ at Folio Books (3957 24th St., San Francisco) on Thursday, September 22. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-could-be-beautiful-swan-huntley-tickets-26546490267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If there was anything to hold on to, I was holding on to it very tightly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12095479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 508px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley.jpg\" alt=\"Swan Huntley.\" width=\"508\" height=\"749\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12095479\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley.jpg 508w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley-400x590.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/swanhuntley-407x600.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swan Huntley. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Latimer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huntley says the recent spate of novels about the wealthy may fill a need for entertainment and diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people dream of being rich, and what you would do if you had a million dollars is a fascinating question,” she says. “Also, the stakes probably feel lower than with real-world problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>We Could Be Beautiful\u003c/em>, Catherine’s growing concern about William’s secretiveness and her mother’s antipathy leads to suspense that has critics calling the book a psychological thriller. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview2016SQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12037699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Litquake, the Bay Area’s annual writing and reading festival, has events all year long, the week-plus of programming in early October is always incredible and a point of pride for locals. It can be tricky to navigate the San Francisco portion, with so many readings, performances, parties, and more, so we’ve picked a slate to recommend. To top it off, we’ve also provided a survival guide to Litquake’s most famous invention, the Lit Crawl: a single-night, 80-venue, all-reading all the time event that drew nearly 10,000 booklovers last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12091615\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-480x600.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Tea\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12091615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-480x600.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Tea \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Litquake)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Riding Out Doomsday: Michelle Tea in conversation with Daniel Handler\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nAmerican Bookbonders Museum\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>KQED’s The Spine analyzed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/08/28/care-of-the-soul-on-michelle-teas-black-wave/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Black Wave\u003c/em>\u003c/a> recently, so let’s just state that Michelle Tea and Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket, author of \u003cem>A Series of Unfortunate Events\u003c/em>) are incredibly accomplished writers, both prolific and dedicated to their craft. However, please note that not all great writers are great performers. Luckily these two are quick-witted, well-spoken, and warm, and seem to actually enjoy being onstage; they even seem to appreciate one another’s company while standing in front of a crowd. Tea and Handler are definitely the ingredients for an evening of writerly edification that’s the opposite of boring: she’s reliably dialed-in and funny, and he’ll do nearly anything for a smart laugh.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12091616\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 403px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-403x600.jpg\" alt=\"'The Gods of Tango'\" width=\"403\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12091616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-403x600.jpg 403w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-400x596.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Gods of Tango’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Latina Fiction: Politics, Social Justice, and Sexuality\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nMechanics Institute Library\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7sNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>An Oakland author of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the kind of international multilingual superstar jetsetter lesbian wife and mother the Bay Area’s famous for. Award-winning, \u003cem>O-Magazine\u003c/em>-featured, NEA fellow De Robertis’ latest novel \u003cem>The Gods of Tango\u003c/em> is praised by Junot Diaz as “extraordinarily courageous.” Junot f*cking Diaz! The event, part of Litquake’s Off the Richter Scale series, also features Yalitza Ferreras, Aya de Leon, and Maria Poblet.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092897\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 406px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-406x600.png\" alt=\"'Citizen: An American Lyric '\" width=\"406\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12092897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-406x600.png 406w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-400x591.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen.png 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Citizen: An American Lyric ‘\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>America Lyric: Claudia Rankine in Conversation\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 14\u003cbr>\nSwedish American Music Hall\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jyX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Writing poetry is severely difficult and poets are always underpaid. Who knows how poets do it, let alone how a poet becomes as great as Claudia Rankine? The author of \u003cem>Citizen: An American Lyric\u003c/em> has detonated expectations of poetry in many ways; her prose poems describe phenomena invisible to the white reader’s eye, in language Marjorie Perloff describes as “terse, brilliant, parabolic.” Much of the book is short descriptions of microaggressions, those moments of casual, “small” racism people of color move through daily. Though not physically violent, they create injury, as Rankine and many others have pointed out. “That’s the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice,” she writes. Rankine will be speaking with author Sarah Ladipo Manyika, who published her second novel, \u003ci>Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\u003c/i> back in April.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 593px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Caf%C3%A9-593x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vesuvio Café\" width=\"593\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12092899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-593x600.jpg 593w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-400x405.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vesuvio Café\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 12\u003cbr>\nVesuvio Café\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If past years are any guide, this annual Litquake event is definitely a highlight. The venue itself, Vesuvio, is part of the experience, as a visual riot and a literary landmark. The tone of the evening tends to bat back and forth between sheer excellence and deep hilarity, not that those are mutually exclusive. This year features Alia Volz, Christian Keifer, D. Watkins, Joshua Mohr, Charlie Anders, and Zahra Noorbakhsh.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12093266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"'An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States'\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12093266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/dunbar-ortiz-anindigenouspeopleshistory.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Writing the Indigenous Experience\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 12\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Center for the Book\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jxM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>This is what Litquake does best: present a multitude of voices. They don’t do it to “foster diversity” (although it does), but for the basic logic and pleasure of hearing what actual Bay Area writers are doing with their lives. On this night, authors looking at the complexities of writing indigenous, First Nations, Native American, and American Indian experiences have the microphone. The great feminist Okie outlaw historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz won the American Book Award last year for \u003cem>An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c/em>; she appears here with Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Greg Sarris, Alison Owings, and Kim Shuck.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143584\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\" alt=\"The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside the Phoenix Bar because employees wouldn't turn the televisions off. Courtesy of Litquake\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" class=\"size-thumb wp-image-10143584\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop-400x310.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside the Phoenix Bar because employees wouldn’t turn the televisions off. Courtesy of Litquake\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Lit Crawl Survival Guide\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 15\u003cbr>\nVarious Venues\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://litcrawlsanfrancisco2016.sched.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Lit Crawl’s basic setup is that readings take over every available space in a given district: laundrymats, hair salons, hardware stores—anywhere, as long as they’ll turn down the TV and sometimes even if they won’t (looking at you, Phoenix Irish Pub three years ago.) Here in San Francisco, the crawl takes place mainly in the Mission/Valencia corridor, a densely populated retail-heavy area full of street-facing plate glass. During Lit Crawl, those big windows will be bright and packed with thousands of readers. Last year, 82 events featured an estimated 300 writers during the crawl’s three hourlong sessions, 10,000 people showed up, and the whole thing was free, like it always is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for surviving the often overwhelming experience of being one of those thousands of happy literary lemmings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Bring your own water.\u003c/strong> You may wind up walking a lot, and every corner store, restaurant, feedbag, and watertrough will be on the other side of a long line from you. This is true of other things to drink as well, although it’s sometimes possible to purchase drinks if your event is at a bar. If you get the chance to buy food or drink, pounce on it. But come prepared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Choose one or two must-see events\u003c/strong>, and move heaven and earth to arrive at them half an hour or more before they begin. Still, be ready to queue up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– The rest of the time, see whatever!\u003c/strong> No poor choices are possible, and although you may hear more about a random writer’s coke habit than is strictly necessary, that’s the worst thing that can happen. Stay flexible, keep your eyes and ears open, take advice from random strangers, and get caught up in enthusiastic crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Take time to appreciate\u003c/strong> the way the world is full of readers and writers tonight; San Francisco is the home-place of the Lit Crawl and the largest one in the world. Lit Crawls now exist in Texas, New Zealand, Iowa, London, Helsinki, Los Angeles, and more, but this is the original. Don’t rush by with your head in the program, and remember it’s OK to just look around, without even taking a picture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Bring “extra” money to buy books\u003c/strong>. If you’re unfamiliar with the rush of putting liquid currency directly into the hand of the artist who made your book, Litquake in general and the crawl in particular are great places to get hooked.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n– Be prepared to stand, or sit on the floor\u003c/strong>, and be squished in next to people. I want to see clogs on feet, people. I sat under a table and listened to Charlie Jane Anders’ feet one year, and it was fantastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Give up on dinner.\u003c/strong> No dinner tonight, sorry. If you can eat before six or after 10, fine, but that’s it. You can eat dinner every other night of the year and I hope you do. Not tonight. Have fun! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The 14th annual Litquake takes place Oct. 7 – 15 in various venues around San Francisco. For more information, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.litquake.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.litquake.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview2016SQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12037699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Litquake, the Bay Area’s annual writing and reading festival, has events all year long, the week-plus of programming in early October is always incredible and a point of pride for locals. It can be tricky to navigate the San Francisco portion, with so many readings, performances, parties, and more, so we’ve picked a slate to recommend. To top it off, we’ve also provided a survival guide to Litquake’s most famous invention, the Lit Crawl: a single-night, 80-venue, all-reading all the time event that drew nearly 10,000 booklovers last year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12091615\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-480x600.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Tea\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12091615\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-480x600.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea-400x500.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Michelle-Tea.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Tea \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Litquake)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Riding Out Doomsday: Michelle Tea in conversation with Daniel Handler\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nAmerican Bookbonders Museum\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>KQED’s The Spine analyzed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/08/28/care-of-the-soul-on-michelle-teas-black-wave/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Black Wave\u003c/em>\u003c/a> recently, so let’s just state that Michelle Tea and Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket, author of \u003cem>A Series of Unfortunate Events\u003c/em>) are incredibly accomplished writers, both prolific and dedicated to their craft. However, please note that not all great writers are great performers. Luckily these two are quick-witted, well-spoken, and warm, and seem to actually enjoy being onstage; they even seem to appreciate one another’s company while standing in front of a crowd. Tea and Handler are definitely the ingredients for an evening of writerly edification that’s the opposite of boring: she’s reliably dialed-in and funny, and he’ll do nearly anything for a smart laugh.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12091616\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 403px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-403x600.jpg\" alt=\"'The Gods of Tango'\" width=\"403\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12091616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-403x600.jpg 403w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango-400x596.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Gods_of_Tango.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Gods of Tango’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Latina Fiction: Politics, Social Justice, and Sexuality\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 9\u003cbr>\nMechanics Institute Library\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7sNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>An Oakland author of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the kind of international multilingual superstar jetsetter lesbian wife and mother the Bay Area’s famous for. Award-winning, \u003cem>O-Magazine\u003c/em>-featured, NEA fellow De Robertis’ latest novel \u003cem>The Gods of Tango\u003c/em> is praised by Junot Diaz as “extraordinarily courageous.” Junot f*cking Diaz! The event, part of Litquake’s Off the Richter Scale series, also features Yalitza Ferreras, Aya de Leon, and Maria Poblet.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092897\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 406px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-406x600.png\" alt=\"'Citizen: An American Lyric '\" width=\"406\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12092897\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-406x600.png 406w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen-400x591.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Citizen.png 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Citizen: An American Lyric ‘\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>America Lyric: Claudia Rankine in Conversation\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 14\u003cbr>\nSwedish American Music Hall\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jyX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Writing poetry is severely difficult and poets are always underpaid. Who knows how poets do it, let alone how a poet becomes as great as Claudia Rankine? The author of \u003cem>Citizen: An American Lyric\u003c/em> has detonated expectations of poetry in many ways; her prose poems describe phenomena invisible to the white reader’s eye, in language Marjorie Perloff describes as “terse, brilliant, parabolic.” Much of the book is short descriptions of microaggressions, those moments of casual, “small” racism people of color move through daily. Though not physically violent, they create injury, as Rankine and many others have pointed out. “That’s the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice,” she writes. Rankine will be speaking with author Sarah Ladipo Manyika, who published her second novel, \u003ci>Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\u003c/i> back in April.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12092899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 593px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Caf%C3%A9-593x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vesuvio Café\" width=\"593\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12092899\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-593x600.jpg 593w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-400x405.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Vesuvio-Café.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vesuvio Café\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 12\u003cbr>\nVesuvio Café\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sched.co/7jxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If past years are any guide, this annual Litquake event is definitely a highlight. The venue itself, Vesuvio, is part of the experience, as a visual riot and a literary landmark. The tone of the evening tends to bat back and forth between sheer excellence and deep hilarity, not that those are mutually exclusive. This year features Alia Volz, Christian Keifer, D. 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They don’t do it to “foster diversity” (although it does), but for the basic logic and pleasure of hearing what actual Bay Area writers are doing with their lives. On this night, authors looking at the complexities of writing indigenous, First Nations, Native American, and American Indian experiences have the microphone. The great feminist Okie outlaw historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz won the American Book Award last year for \u003cem>An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c/em>; she appears here with Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Greg Sarris, Alison Owings, and Kim Shuck.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10143584\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/a-classic-litquake-moment-crop.jpg\" alt=\"The scene from the first Lit Crawl in 2004, when the reading was held outside the Phoenix Bar because employees wouldn't turn the televisions off. 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Courtesy of Litquake\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Lit Crawl Survival Guide\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>Oct. 15\u003cbr>\nVarious Venues\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://litcrawlsanfrancisco2016.sched.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Information\u003c/a>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Lit Crawl’s basic setup is that readings take over every available space in a given district: laundrymats, hair salons, hardware stores—anywhere, as long as they’ll turn down the TV and sometimes even if they won’t (looking at you, Phoenix Irish Pub three years ago.) Here in San Francisco, the crawl takes place mainly in the Mission/Valencia corridor, a densely populated retail-heavy area full of street-facing plate glass. During Lit Crawl, those big windows will be bright and packed with thousands of readers. Last year, 82 events featured an estimated 300 writers during the crawl’s three hourlong sessions, 10,000 people showed up, and the whole thing was free, like it always is. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for surviving the often overwhelming experience of being one of those thousands of happy literary lemmings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Bring your own water.\u003c/strong> You may wind up walking a lot, and every corner store, restaurant, feedbag, and watertrough will be on the other side of a long line from you. This is true of other things to drink as well, although it’s sometimes possible to purchase drinks if your event is at a bar. If you get the chance to buy food or drink, pounce on it. But come prepared. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>– Choose one or two must-see events\u003c/strong>, and move heaven and earth to arrive at them half an hour or more before they begin. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, September 20: Jessica Bennett in conversation with Rachel Thomas at Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12077729\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/161538.jpg\" alt=\"161538\" width=\"193\" height=\"250\">The bombastic \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2l_N8plWqg\">promo trailer\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (For a Sexist Workplace)\u003c/em>, is one of those things that will make you cringe as you cry-laugh. Like Bennett’s new book, which spawned from an actual club where women would get together and share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how to tackle them, the video captures women dealing with the worst of sexism at work. Exhibit A: The Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues at work. Exhibit B: The annoying coworker who implies that any sort of urgency or frustration is because the woman is\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/07/trump-says-foxs-megyn-kelly-had-blood-coming-out-of-her-wherever/\"> having her moon time.\u003c/a> Exhibit C: The man who asks the equally professional woman across from him to take notes like a secretary during a presentation. Bennett’s book is an ode to throwing that Mad Men crap out the window and making like it’s 2016 already. \u003ca href=\"http://www.keplers.com/event/premier-event-jessica-bennett-conversation-rachel-thomas\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, September 21: Ann Patchett at the Nourse Theater, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12077732\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/PhotoCreditHeidiRossjpg.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoCreditHeidiRossjpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\">Ann Patchett has become quite the hero to book lovers. Not only is she an acclaimed novelist, with numerous bestsellers under her belt. She also went out on a limb and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-11/travel/sc-trav-0211-strip-nashville-bookstore-20140211_1_music-city-bookstore-parnassus-books\">purchased an independent bookstore in Nashville\u003c/a> during the worst of recession, at time when so many bookstores were falling under the sword of Amazon. For that act, the New York Times called her the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/books/review/ann-patchett-commonwealth.html\">Joan of Arc of modern publishing\u003c/a>. Parnassus, an oasis for those who love to write and read, continues to thrive. And Patchett continues to knock out killer novels. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062491794/commonwealth\">Commonwealth\u003c/a> \u003c/em>is her latest. It tells the story Spanning five decades, \u003cem>Commonwealth\u003c/em> explores how a chance encounter, and kiss, reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. (She’s called it her \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493142355/ann-patchett-calls-commonwealth-her-autobiographical-first-novel\">first autobiographical novel\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.booksinc.net/event/city-arts-lectures-presents-ann-patchett\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Patchett will also \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/literary-luncheon-ann-patchett-commonwealth-corte-madera\">be at Book Passage\u003c/a> in Corte Madera on September 22 and at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa later that evening. More information \u003ca href=\"http://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/event/copperfields-books-luther-burbank-center-present-ann-patchett\">here. \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, September 23: Juan Gabriel Vasquez at Green Apple Books, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12077731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/reputations.jpg\" alt=\"reputations\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\"> In 2013, Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s name became indelibly marked on the international literary map with the bestselling \u003cem>The Sounds of Things Falling\u003c/em>. Even Franzen got in on the game (not on Twitter though, don’t worry) calling him the new Colombian literary superstar. Watch out Gabriel Garcia Marquez! (Actually, Vasquez \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/books/review/juan-gabriel-vasquez-by-the-book.html\">lists\u003c/a> \u003cem>One Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c/em> as his favorite Colombian novel of all time, a worthy choice). A slim new novel\u003cem> Reputations\u003c/em> comes out this month on Riverhead Books. Translated from Spanish by Anne McClean, the novel focuses on Javier Mallarino, a famous and influential political cartoonist, a “man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decision, and destroying politicans’ careers with his art.” But he sees that power shaken with the visit of a young woman with a shocking story, one that forces Mallarino to reconsider his life, work and position in the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-juan-gabriel-vasquez\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, September 27: Riad Sattouf at Diesel Books, Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12077733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/thearabofthefuture.png\" alt=\"thearabofthefuture\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\">Speaking of political cartoonists, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/drawing-blood\">Riad Sattouf \u003c/a>is the real deal. Born to a Syrian father and a French mother, Sattouf spent his childhood in Libya and Syria, moving to France as a teenager. Known for his clever and somewhat autobiographical work, from 2004 to 2014 he published a weekly strip in Charlie Hebdo. His latest book, \u003ca href=\"http://thearabofthefuture.com/\">\u003cem>The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984 – 1985\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the second volume in a series about the dismal, sometimes barbaric reality, of life in his father’s hometown in Syria. A bestseller in France, the New York Times has called \u003cem>The Arab of the Future\u003c/em> a disquieting yet essential read. The New Yorker compared Sattouf’s work, and crossover appeal, to Marjane Satrapi’s brilliant graphic memoir \u003cem>Persepolis\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/riad-sattouf-discusses-and-signs-arab-future-2\">Details here \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, September 28: Jay McInerney at Hotel Healdsburg in an event sponsored by Copperfield’s Books, Healdsburg\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12077734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached.jpg\" alt=\"45508928.cached\" width=\"231\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\">Jay McInerney invented tragic yuppie novel with \u003cem>Bright Lights, Big City\u003c/em> in 1984. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Patchett will also \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/literary-luncheon-ann-patchett-commonwealth-corte-madera\">be at Book Passage\u003c/a> in Corte Madera on September 22 and at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa later that evening. More information \u003ca href=\"http://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/event/copperfields-books-luther-burbank-center-present-ann-patchett\">here. \u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, September 23: Juan Gabriel Vasquez at Green Apple Books, San Francisco \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12077731\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/reputations.jpg\" alt=\"reputations\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\"> In 2013, Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s name became indelibly marked on the international literary map with the bestselling \u003cem>The Sounds of Things Falling\u003c/em>. Even Franzen got in on the game (not on Twitter though, don’t worry) calling him the new Colombian literary superstar. Watch out Gabriel Garcia Marquez! (Actually, Vasquez \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/books/review/juan-gabriel-vasquez-by-the-book.html\">lists\u003c/a> \u003cem>One Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c/em> as his favorite Colombian novel of all time, a worthy choice). A slim new novel\u003cem> Reputations\u003c/em> comes out this month on Riverhead Books. Translated from Spanish by Anne McClean, the novel focuses on Javier Mallarino, a famous and influential political cartoonist, a “man capable of repealing laws, overturning judges’ decision, and destroying politicans’ careers with his art.” But he sees that power shaken with the visit of a young woman with a shocking story, one that forces Mallarino to reconsider his life, work and position in the world. \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-juan-gabriel-vasquez\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, September 27: Riad Sattouf at Diesel Books, Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12077733\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/thearabofthefuture.png\" alt=\"thearabofthefuture\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\">Speaking of political cartoonists, \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/drawing-blood\">Riad Sattouf \u003c/a>is the real deal. Born to a Syrian father and a French mother, Sattouf spent his childhood in Libya and Syria, moving to France as a teenager. Known for his clever and somewhat autobiographical work, from 2004 to 2014 he published a weekly strip in Charlie Hebdo. His latest book, \u003ca href=\"http://thearabofthefuture.com/\">\u003cem>The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984 – 1985\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the second volume in a series about the dismal, sometimes barbaric reality, of life in his father’s hometown in Syria. A bestseller in France, the New York Times has called \u003cem>The Arab of the Future\u003c/em> a disquieting yet essential read. The New Yorker compared Sattouf’s work, and crossover appeal, to Marjane Satrapi’s brilliant graphic memoir \u003cem>Persepolis\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/riad-sattouf-discusses-and-signs-arab-future-2\">Details here \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, September 28: Jay McInerney at Hotel Healdsburg in an event sponsored by Copperfield’s Books, Healdsburg\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12077734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached.jpg\" alt=\"45508928.cached\" width=\"231\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/45508928.cached-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\">Jay McInerney invented tragic yuppie novel with \u003cem>Bright Lights, Big City\u003c/em> in 1984. He also wrote the screenplay that led to Michael J. Fox’s \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/zmeTsRQ6STE\">tour-de-force performance\u003c/a> as drug and love-addled magazine fact checker in ’80s Manhattan in the movie adaptation of the book. (Not to be confused with Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/g4oPo5BBxA8\">cocaine-addled rich kid\u003c/a> in ’80s Los Angeles). Decades later, McInerney’s still at the novel-writing game. His latest novel, \u003cem>Bright and Precious Days\u003c/em>, also takes Manhattan and people in the publishing industry at its core. Corrine and Russell Calloway are living the dream: Tribeca apartment, summers in the Hamptons, book parties, art openings, and high society soirees. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview2016SQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12037699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Memoirs have been a staple of rock music books for decades, but after the best-selling success of Patti Smith’s \u003cem>Just Kids\u003c/em> and Keith Richards’s \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> in 2010, the trickle’s become a deluge. This fall sees several tell-alls from superstars, cult icons, ex-wives and virtual unknowns. Their tales span surf music, psychedelia, punk, glam, indie and more, often within the same volume. No matter what your taste, the choice is wide, with enough spilled beans to satisfy both nerdy collectors and celebrity gossip hounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068219\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-397x600.jpg\" alt=\"'I am Brian Wilson: A Memoir' by Brian Wilson\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I am Brian Wilson: A Memoir’ by Brian Wilson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman\u003cbr>\n320 pages, Publication date: Oct. 11\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Instead of sequencing his story chronologically, the driving force behind the Beach Boys jumps back and forth between different episodes from birth to the present. It’s a bit like reading a lengthy blog, giving about as much weight to his 2010 album of Gershwin covers as the 1966 classic \u003cem>Pet Sounds\u003c/em>. Fortunately it does cover most of his and the Beach Boys’ albums, most of their famous songs (and many of their un-famous/infamous ones), and many of his major problems with his father, family, manipulative psychiatrist-of-sorts Eugene Landy, and mental illness. It’s highly readable and, at least for those who haven’t scoured other sources of details about the Beach Boys’ career, very informative. Such was the detached tone, however, that I sometimes felt like Wilson was an observer of, rather than a participant, in his own life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068214\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Good Vibrations: My Life As A Beach Boy' by Mike Love\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Good Vibrations: My Life As A Beach Boy’ by Mike Love\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Good Vibrations: My Life As a Beach Boy\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Mike Love with James S. Hirsch\u003cbr>\n446 pages, Publication date: Sept. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Beach Boys’ lead singer has been accused by some fans and critics of hindering the band’s artistic evolution, and specifically of sinking Brian Wilson’s unreleased-at-the-time \u003cem>Pet Sounds\u003c/em> follow-up \u003cem>Smile\u003c/em> by objecting to its avant-gardism. At times his book reads like a defensive rebuttal to those charges, but more often it’s a straightforward, unexpectedly humble account of the band’s oft-thrilling journey from garage surf music to classic orchestrated pop-rock and, in Love’s case, immersion in transcendental meditation. The volatile conflicts within the band (especially between Love and drummer Dennis Wilson) are not ignored, and considerable space is devoted to his struggles to win songwriting credits for many 1960s Beach Boys songs he recalls helping compose (in great detail). No matter what side you favor in such disputes, this is above-average for a rock star memoir that, to my surprise, I’d recommend above Brian Wilson’s for an overall look at the group’s history.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068217\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story' By Dean Torrence\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story’\u003cbr>By Dean Torrence\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Dean Torrence\u003cbr>\n228 pages, Publication date: Sept. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If you want a surf saga less contentious than the Beach Boys’ melodrama, Torrence’s tale is a likable, breezy ride through the career of Jan & Dean, the ‘60s’ second-most-popular surf’n’hot rod act. It’s a throwback to a more innocent time when two West L.A. teenagers could, by pluck and luck (specifically when Brian Wilson gave them a half-completed smash hit called “Surf City”), insert themselves into the city’s infant rock industry and become rock stars. It wasn’t as innocent as it seemed — Dean’s partner Jan Berry helped push their first single onto the chart by shoplifting copies from a store vital to industry surveys. Alas, the good times ended with a literal crash when Berry suffered brain damage in a horrific 1966 car accident. Although Torrence landed on his feet as a Grammy-winning graphic artist, his struggles to keep Jan in line on their reunion tours end the autobiography on a down note.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066025\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-400x569.jpg\" alt=\"'Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed' By Bettye Kronstad\" width=\"400\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12066025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-400x569.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-422x600.jpg 422w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed’ By Bettye Kronstad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>by Bettye Kronstad\u003cbr>\n288 pages, Publication date: Nov. 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life was unexpectedly perfect, or at least good, with Reed in the early 1970s, according to Kronstad, his girlfriend of the era (and, briefly, first wife). Getting seriously involved with the notorious singer-songwriter just after the Velvet Underground split, she found not a crazed wildman, but a sensitive poet who was getting back on his feet by moving back in with his parents in the suburbs of Long Island. The good times didn’t last, as Lou went back to abusing drugs and, unfortunately, psychologically attacking Kronstad, who left after one outburst too many in the middle of a 1973 European tour. Her detailed memories of her years by Reed’s side can make for sad, and at times, enervating reading as Lou’s attacks erode her self-worth. But a (mostly) good day with him in Central Park did serve as the inspiration for his song “Perfect Day.” Her recollections of that experience — along, less flatteringly, with how Lou used some of Kronstad’s stormy family history as the basis for his 1973 album \u003cem>Berlin\u003c/em> — in themselves make this worth perusing for Reed fanatics.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066023\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-400x610.jpg\" alt=\"'The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise' by Brix Smith Start\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12066023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-400x610.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-393x600.jpg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise’ by Brix Smith Start\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>By Brix Smith Start\u003cbr>\n480 pages, Publication date: July 12\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As guitarist in long-lived British punk band the Fall, Brix Smith got to see manic Fall mainman Mark E. Smith up close and personal, especially as she was married to him for about half the 1980s during her first stint in the group. It’s another tale of near-idyllic romance — a whirlwind that saw Brix moving into his Manchester flat within weeks after she saw the Fall for the first time in Chicago — that quickly soured amidst Mark’s drugs, infidelity and mental cruelty. The book isn’t just for Fall fans, however, as it also documents Brix’s stranger-than-fiction path from a privileged L.A. childhood to the heart of the British underground rock scene, as well as a lengthy subsequent relationship with top classical violinist Nigel Kennedy. Smith writes with penetrating-if-occasionally-rambling insight, never more so when stating, “It seemed to me that the deterioration of our relationship was reflected in my dwindling songwriting credits.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066021\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 404px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-404x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali' by Mike Stax\" width=\"404\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12066021\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-404x600.jpg 404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-400x594.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali’\u003cbr>by Mike Stax\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Mike Stax\u003cbr>\n240 pages, Publication date: Sept. 20\n\u003c/h5>\u003cp>Not technically a memoir, but as close as we’re going to get after the death of the subject. This is a stupendously thorough examination of an All-American guy who seemed to have it all, only to have it all go down the tubes. Talented ‘60s folk-rock singer-songwriter Craig Smith made the unlikely transition from wholesome Andy Williams backup musician to Mike Nesmith-produced band the Penny Arkade, leaving for the “\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hippie trail\u003c/a>” when the group failed to find a deal. When he returned from Asia at the end of the 1960s, he’d descended into mental illness and began recording eccentric-but-beguiling solo folk-rock LPs before serving time for assaulting his mother and enduring several decades of homelessness. Mike Stax unearthed a startling (and oft-disturbing) wealth of info considering Smith’s records were largely unreleased or unheard, though Craig crossed paths with everyone from the Monkees to Manson (and Brian Wilson and Mike Love, for that matter). It’s the dark side of the California dream that vaulted the likes of the Beach Boys and Monkees to worldwide fame, but left nearly-as-talented musicians like Smith (who died in his sleeping bag in North Hollywood Park in 2012) in the literal gutter.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Other major fall memoirs of note will include Bruce Springsteen’s \u003cem>Born to Run\u003c/em> (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 27), whose 528 pages have already attracted press for detailing decades of struggle with depression’; and Robbie Robertson’s almost equally lengthy \u003cem>Testimony\u003c/em> (Crown Archetype, Nov. 15), much of which will tell the story of the Band from the guitarist-songwriter’s perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/fall-arts-guide-2016/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview2016SQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12037699\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/FallArtsPreview2016SQ-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Memoirs have been a staple of rock music books for decades, but after the best-selling success of Patti Smith’s \u003cem>Just Kids\u003c/em> and Keith Richards’s \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> in 2010, the trickle’s become a deluge. This fall sees several tell-alls from superstars, cult icons, ex-wives and virtual unknowns. Their tales span surf music, psychedelia, punk, glam, indie and more, often within the same volume. No matter what your taste, the choice is wide, with enough spilled beans to satisfy both nerdy collectors and celebrity gossip hounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068219\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-397x600.jpg\" alt=\"'I am Brian Wilson: A Memoir' by Brian Wilson\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068219\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/I-am-Brian-Wilson.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘I am Brian Wilson: A Memoir’ by Brian Wilson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman\u003cbr>\n320 pages, Publication date: Oct. 11\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Instead of sequencing his story chronologically, the driving force behind the Beach Boys jumps back and forth between different episodes from birth to the present. It’s a bit like reading a lengthy blog, giving about as much weight to his 2010 album of Gershwin covers as the 1966 classic \u003cem>Pet Sounds\u003c/em>. Fortunately it does cover most of his and the Beach Boys’ albums, most of their famous songs (and many of their un-famous/infamous ones), and many of his major problems with his father, family, manipulative psychiatrist-of-sorts Eugene Landy, and mental illness. It’s highly readable and, at least for those who haven’t scoured other sources of details about the Beach Boys’ career, very informative. Such was the detached tone, however, that I sometimes felt like Wilson was an observer of, rather than a participant, in his own life.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068214\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Good Vibrations: My Life As A Beach Boy' by Mike Love\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068214\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Good-Vibrationsbook.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Good Vibrations: My Life As A Beach Boy’ by Mike Love\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Good Vibrations: My Life As a Beach Boy\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Mike Love with James S. Hirsch\u003cbr>\n446 pages, Publication date: Sept. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The Beach Boys’ lead singer has been accused by some fans and critics of hindering the band’s artistic evolution, and specifically of sinking Brian Wilson’s unreleased-at-the-time \u003cem>Pet Sounds\u003c/em> follow-up \u003cem>Smile\u003c/em> by objecting to its avant-gardism. At times his book reads like a defensive rebuttal to those charges, but more often it’s a straightforward, unexpectedly humble account of the band’s oft-thrilling journey from garage surf music to classic orchestrated pop-rock and, in Love’s case, immersion in transcendental meditation. The volatile conflicts within the band (especially between Love and drummer Dennis Wilson) are not ignored, and considerable space is devoted to his struggles to win songwriting credits for many 1960s Beach Boys songs he recalls helping compose (in great detail). No matter what side you favor in such disputes, this is above-average for a rock star memoir that, to my surprise, I’d recommend above Brian Wilson’s for an overall look at the group’s history.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068217\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story' By Dean Torrence\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12068217\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Surf-CityUSE.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story’\u003cbr>By Dean Torrence\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Surf City: The Jan & Dean Story\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Dean Torrence\u003cbr>\n228 pages, Publication date: Sept. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>If you want a surf saga less contentious than the Beach Boys’ melodrama, Torrence’s tale is a likable, breezy ride through the career of Jan & Dean, the ‘60s’ second-most-popular surf’n’hot rod act. It’s a throwback to a more innocent time when two West L.A. teenagers could, by pluck and luck (specifically when Brian Wilson gave them a half-completed smash hit called “Surf City”), insert themselves into the city’s infant rock industry and become rock stars. It wasn’t as innocent as it seemed — Dean’s partner Jan Berry helped push their first single onto the chart by shoplifting copies from a store vital to industry surveys. Alas, the good times ended with a literal crash when Berry suffered brain damage in a horrific 1966 car accident. Although Torrence landed on his feet as a Grammy-winning graphic artist, his struggles to keep Jan in line on their reunion tours end the autobiography on a down note.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066025\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-400x569.jpg\" alt=\"'Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed' By Bettye Kronstad\" width=\"400\" height=\"569\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12066025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-400x569.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook-422x600.jpg 422w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BettyeKronstadBook.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed’ By Bettye Kronstad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait of Life with Lou Reed\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>by Bettye Kronstad\u003cbr>\n288 pages, Publication date: Nov. 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life was unexpectedly perfect, or at least good, with Reed in the early 1970s, according to Kronstad, his girlfriend of the era (and, briefly, first wife). Getting seriously involved with the notorious singer-songwriter just after the Velvet Underground split, she found not a crazed wildman, but a sensitive poet who was getting back on his feet by moving back in with his parents in the suburbs of Long Island. The good times didn’t last, as Lou went back to abusing drugs and, unfortunately, psychologically attacking Kronstad, who left after one outburst too many in the middle of a 1973 European tour. Her detailed memories of her years by Reed’s side can make for sad, and at times, enervating reading as Lou’s attacks erode her self-worth. But a (mostly) good day with him in Central Park did serve as the inspiration for his song “Perfect Day.” Her recollections of that experience — along, less flatteringly, with how Lou used some of Kronstad’s stormy family history as the basis for his 1973 album \u003cem>Berlin\u003c/em> — in themselves make this worth perusing for Reed fanatics.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066023\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-400x610.jpg\" alt=\"'The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise' by Brix Smith Start\" width=\"400\" height=\"610\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12066023\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-400x610.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook-393x600.jpg 393w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/BrixSmithBook.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise’ by Brix Smith Start\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>By Brix Smith Start\u003cbr>\n480 pages, Publication date: July 12\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As guitarist in long-lived British punk band the Fall, Brix Smith got to see manic Fall mainman Mark E. Smith up close and personal, especially as she was married to him for about half the 1980s during her first stint in the group. It’s another tale of near-idyllic romance — a whirlwind that saw Brix moving into his Manchester flat within weeks after she saw the Fall for the first time in Chicago — that quickly soured amidst Mark’s drugs, infidelity and mental cruelty. The book isn’t just for Fall fans, however, as it also documents Brix’s stranger-than-fiction path from a privileged L.A. childhood to the heart of the British underground rock scene, as well as a lengthy subsequent relationship with top classical violinist Nigel Kennedy. Smith writes with penetrating-if-occasionally-rambling insight, never more so when stating, “It seemed to me that the deterioration of our relationship was reflected in my dwindling songwriting credits.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066021\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 404px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-404x600.jpg\" alt=\"'Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali' by Mike Stax\" width=\"404\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12066021\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-404x600.jpg 404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook-400x594.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/CraigSmithBook.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali’\u003cbr>by Mike Stax\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Mike Stax\u003cbr>\n240 pages, Publication date: Sept. 20\n\u003c/h5>\u003cp>Not technically a memoir, but as close as we’re going to get after the death of the subject. 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