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Intrigued, Coppola ordered a model for his Cafe Zoetrope, in San Francisco’s North Beach. Installed on May 10, it’s the first of its kind in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11597404 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_5943-e1463683880573.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5943\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This intriguing short story machine gives us a great opportunity to merge the innovation of today’s world with the nostalgic allure of classic manuscripts,” said Coppola in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cousin Phun, already a huge fan of short stories by the likes of Alice Munro, Ray Bradbury and Franz Kafka, read through the story as she sipped on a cocktail. The scene seemed archaic: a woman frozen in concentration, in the middle of a buzzing crowd, reading from a line of print instead of scrolling through Instagram, as one might do normally do while sitting solo at a bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what was the verdict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11597255 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_5945-e1463682366236.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5945\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story was labeled as humor, but it wasn’t humorous to me,” Phun said. “It was a little sad, but it was well-crafted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what of the vending machine concept itself? “I love it,” she said. “What’s not to love? For one, it’s free. I’d pay a quarter or even a dollar for this, but it’s free. Second, anything to get your eyes of a screen is a good thing. There is always a difference between that and the written word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that evening, one young man expressed disappointment about the machine’s aesthetics: glossy, cylindrical, modern. He’d imagined it would more closely resemble an old-fashioned fortune telling apparatus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like the one in \u003cem>Big\u003c/em>,” he said, referring to that movie’s mysterious ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z48_DSKh1Hw\">Zoltar Says Make Your Wish\u003c/a>‘ machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet despite their subdued exterior, the machines have been a big hit in France. The city of Grenoble, where Short Edition is headquartered, has eight machines installed at places like the city center, library, and tourism office. They’ve emerged as\u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-a-city-in-france-got-the-worlds-first-short-story-vending-machines\"> somewhat of a phenomenon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manjula Martin is the new managing editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.all-story.com/\">Zoetrope: All-Story\u003c/a>, the lauded fiction magazine which recently won the 2016 National Magazine Award for Fiction for Anthony Marra’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=550\">The Grozny Tourist Bureau\u003c/a>. Martin and longtime editor Michael Ray are in charge of the care and feeding of the Short Edition; they’ll see to it that the little machine is stocked with stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of making storytelling and literature just a part of the landscape is kind of lovely,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11597251\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_5942-e1463681363567.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Cousin Phun\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cousin Phun\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For now, Short Edition supplies the machine’s stories, all of them translated from French by an apparently hard-working translator named Wendy Cross. As they get going, according to Martin, the bulk of the stories will come from Zoetrope’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.zoetrope.com/\">Virtual Studio\u003c/a> flash fiction community, which offers free critique and support for apprentice writers. Upon group vote, the top-rated pieces will make it into the vending machine. Others will come from \u003ca href=\"http://vendettawine.com/\">Vendetta\u003c/a>, Coppola’s wine and story project. Eventually, they’ll partner with local literary organizations for special theme months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an exciting proposition: imagine local writers trekking to Cafe Zoetrope to see their story emerge from the machine, not to mention the random strangers who might discover those writers after pushing a button out of sheer curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been incredibly enthusiastic about it,” said Martin. A launch party earlier this month drew the likes of former Mayor Willie Brown, Dave Eggers, and Vendela Vida, who showed up to welcome San Francisco’s literary \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjeptaI2T8E\">Number Five\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francis Ford Coppola, never one to step down from a challenge, hopes to see the machines’ presence multiply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to see the city of San Francisco put them everywhere,” he stated, “so that while waiting for a bus, or marriage license, or lunch, you could get an artistic lift free of charge.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Imagine a workplace where any time you took a stand on a controversial issue, a choir of men who disagreed ticked off a litany of violent acts that should be done to you. Not awful enough? Picture an office where hundreds of men drop by your cube to, as shrewd feminist essayist \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindywest.net/#about\" target=\"_blank\">Lindy West\u003c/a> writes, inform you that “you’re too fat to rape, but perhaps they’ll just saw you with an electric knife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unfathomable that modern American society would tolerate such threatening language as valid expressions of differences of opinion. No sane boss would tell his or her employees to get over it, or “hey, just don’t listen to the taunts,” if this was happening face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about when it happens online? As West writes in her excellent new memoir \u003cem>Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman\u003c/em>, this nasty breed of vehemence is a regular and under-addressed workplace occurrence for many female journalists who make a living shedding light on issues pertaining to how we treat and talk about women -- particularly self-proclaimed fat women like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much every day, at least one stranger seeks me out to call me a fat bitch (or some pithy variation thereof),” she writes, adding that together with rape and injury threats, “This is the barbarism — the eager abandonment of the social contract — that so many of us face simply for doing our jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24832\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-800x1228.jpg\" alt=\"Shrill_HC\" width=\"800\" height=\"1228\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-800x1228.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-400x614.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-768x1178.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-1440x2210.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-1180x1811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC-960x1473.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Shrill_HC.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may recognize West’s name from her work as a columnist for the \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em>, or a freelancer for \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Cosmopolitan\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em>. Or perhaps you remember her as the Jezebel staffer who wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/heres-what-it-feels-like-to-be-a-fat-person-on-a-plane-1488750726\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable essay \u003c/a>about the “low-grade hostility” she faces from other passengers every time she flies simply because she’s a fat woman. The online responses to that article, she writes, included such disgusting comments as “I wouldn’t stoop to feminist levels and wish her bodily harm — castration/acid burning her face, etc. — on her, but if I did…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you remember her coming out against rape jokes, because, as she writes, “there is nothing novel or comedic or righteous about men using the threat of sexual violence to control non-compliant women.” She went head to head on \u003cem>Totally Biased\u003c/em> with comedian Jim Norton over that issue. Their debate stoked yet another avalanche of horrid comments that she details in \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, such as this one: “Holes like this make me want to commit rape out of anger.” The rampage against her was so strong that West, who came up in the Seattle comedy scene, decided to quit going to open mics and comedy shows completely, which was “the toll of rocking the boat in an industry you love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phone conversation to promote her book tour for \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, West tells me she has PTSD from the deluge of raging rape comments that were directed at her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a hard time going to comedy clubs and seeing stand-up, and that’s not from an ideological perspective, but from a physical perspective,” she says. “When I go to a comedy club I’m like, ‘Which of these open mic comics lurking in the back corners has told me they hope I get raped and die on Twitter?’ I don’t feel comfortable there any more.” It’s a heartbreaking admission from someone so preternaturally funny in both the personal and political arenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-24789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Lindy West\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy West \u003ccite>(Jenny Jimenez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One particularly revolting instance of online abuse got national exposure, when West contributed a moving piece about it to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps\" target=\"_blank\">This American Life\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> In the segment, she details how she confronted a troll who had impersonated her recently deceased, beloved father in order to launch social media attacks against her. Their eventual phone conversation, which West describes in \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, serves as a monumental moment for anyone who has gone to battle with any level of troll, from the garden personalized-attack variety to the more insidious Gamergate and swatter variety detailed in a recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem> New York Times Magazine\u003c/em> story\u003c/a>. West’s harasser broke down, apologized, and admitted that he’d gone after her out of jealousy of her confidence. She now has an admirable level of empathy for trolls, many of whom she believes are just miserable people hiding behind the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll acknowledge the experiences coloring my own views here: You don’t work in digital media without dealing with some level of trolling. When I was editor-in-chief at The Bold Italic, we were constantly weeding out heinous responses to our writers’ personal essays. But in reading this memoir by West, a writer I’ve long admired for her wicked sense of humor and astute observations on the way women are shut down, I had to wonder, is “troll” still the right word for this deluge of venom that people at her level of visibility battle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A troll sounds like an evil monster, sure, but he’s a li’l guy. Turn off your computer and he disappears. What West describes, in detailed account after detailed account throughout \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> are activities she rightly categorizes as workplace harassment. Dealing with them, she writes, “[is] costing me time, potential income, and mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More significantly, though,” she adds, “it’s part of a massive, multifarious online harassment campaign that has saturated my life for the past decade — and, on a broader scale, is actively driving women off the Internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I ask West if the thinks “troll” is still the correct word to encapsulate someone whose actions have such serious psychological consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still people who I think the term troll is perfectly fine for,” she says. “It’s a hard thing to make a taxonomy of. There are people who are just screwing around and aren’t trying to emotionally traumatize people.” The difference, she adds, is when you look at the vicious language and the cumulative harm it does. “When people are posting your home address and threatening to rape you and clearly, deliberately trying to cause harm, we need to call that what it is,” she says. “We don’t need to give it a cute euphemism. We can call it harassment and stalking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when we do have the right language, then what? How do we deal with these linguistic knives? West doesn’t offer universal answers, especially since, as she emphasizes, her background isn’t in tech. In \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, she describes her personal method of coping, which is a combo of A) “don’t click on anything,” B) “mock and block” the person, and C) “wine.” If you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thelindywest\" target=\"_blank\">follow her on social media\u003c/a> you can watch plan B in action, as she slays her taunters with mostly witty comebacks like an action hero picking off the bad guys one by one. But she doesn’t want to set a standard that everyone needs to be such a warrior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever want to say that there’s one model for what you should do, because I don’t even want to say that it’s anyone’s responsibility to weather this kind of garbage,” she says. “But I hope that in the end we’ve managed to hang on to some of these voices who might otherwise have been driven away. I want to help provide a pillar of solidarity and for people to know they’re not alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she hears often from young writers, especially women, who say they want to get into blogging but are afraid of getting ripped to shreds. “I just want to be visible, not being destroyed by that, for people who need to see that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t want to paint the picture that \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> is a book only about harassment, because it’s not. It’s also a book detailing how Lindy West, a girl who was too good at making herself “small” — speaking in whispers, retreating into fantasy novels — became one of the preeminent feminist bloggers of this social media era, one who is equally hilarious and heartfelt. The key to her evolution can’t be wrapped up in a single chapter or an easy aphorism. It’s in the culmination of battle after battle — with \u003cem>The Stranger\u003c/em>’s then-editor Dan Savage when he went on a horrid blogging tear about fat people while West was still working for that paper; with pro-rape joke activists and fat chauvinists; and with her own self-image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> has many vulnerable and non-troll-y personal moments, about her father and his terminal illness, about her husband and how their relationship nearly fell apart, and about her body and all the moments she went from being horrified at its monthly bleeding or ability to break chairs to appreciating its strengths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a book that’s so politically and socially-minded, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> is also infused with warmth and self-effacing humor, which is to be expected from a writer who has long been comfortable telling her personal story in order to shed light on the universal. (See also: #shoutyourabortion, the successful social media campaign she launched with two Seattle friends to turn the narrative around abortions from being shameful and/or secretive to being a very practical experience for some women).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And West says there’s more humor to come. Her main priority now is to get through a follow-up to \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> — which she loved writing because working on a book “keeps me off the Internet.” The concept behind the next one is secret for now, she says, but she will divulge that it’s going to be funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I \u003cem>always\u003c/em> just wanted to write funny things,” she says. Instead, she says she got dragged into more political writing, which she also loves and feels is very necessary. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may recognize West’s name from her work as a columnist for the \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em>, or a freelancer for \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Cosmopolitan\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em>. Or perhaps you remember her as the Jezebel staffer who wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/heres-what-it-feels-like-to-be-a-fat-person-on-a-plane-1488750726\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable essay \u003c/a>about the “low-grade hostility” she faces from other passengers every time she flies simply because she’s a fat woman. The online responses to that article, she writes, included such disgusting comments as “I wouldn’t stoop to feminist levels and wish her bodily harm — castration/acid burning her face, etc. — on her, but if I did…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe you remember her coming out against rape jokes, because, as she writes, “there is nothing novel or comedic or righteous about men using the threat of sexual violence to control non-compliant women.” She went head to head on \u003cem>Totally Biased\u003c/em> with comedian Jim Norton over that issue. Their debate stoked yet another avalanche of horrid comments that she details in \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, such as this one: “Holes like this make me want to commit rape out of anger.” The rampage against her was so strong that West, who came up in the Seattle comedy scene, decided to quit going to open mics and comedy shows completely, which was “the toll of rocking the boat in an industry you love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a phone conversation to promote her book tour for \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, West tells me she has PTSD from the deluge of raging rape comments that were directed at her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a hard time going to comedy clubs and seeing stand-up, and that’s not from an ideological perspective, but from a physical perspective,” she says. “When I go to a comedy club I’m like, ‘Which of these open mic comics lurking in the back corners has told me they hope I get raped and die on Twitter?’ I don’t feel comfortable there any more.” It’s a heartbreaking admission from someone so preternaturally funny in both the personal and political arenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-24789\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Lindy West\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/lindy2.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy West \u003ccite>(Jenny Jimenez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One particularly revolting instance of online abuse got national exposure, when West contributed a moving piece about it to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps\" target=\"_blank\">This American Life\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> In the segment, she details how she confronted a troll who had impersonated her recently deceased, beloved father in order to launch social media attacks against her. Their eventual phone conversation, which West describes in \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, serves as a monumental moment for anyone who has gone to battle with any level of troll, from the garden personalized-attack variety to the more insidious Gamergate and swatter variety detailed in a recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem> New York Times Magazine\u003c/em> story\u003c/a>. West’s harasser broke down, apologized, and admitted that he’d gone after her out of jealousy of her confidence. She now has an admirable level of empathy for trolls, many of whom she believes are just miserable people hiding behind the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll acknowledge the experiences coloring my own views here: You don’t work in digital media without dealing with some level of trolling. When I was editor-in-chief at The Bold Italic, we were constantly weeding out heinous responses to our writers’ personal essays. But in reading this memoir by West, a writer I’ve long admired for her wicked sense of humor and astute observations on the way women are shut down, I had to wonder, is “troll” still the right word for this deluge of venom that people at her level of visibility battle?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A troll sounds like an evil monster, sure, but he’s a li’l guy. Turn off your computer and he disappears. What West describes, in detailed account after detailed account throughout \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> are activities she rightly categorizes as workplace harassment. Dealing with them, she writes, “[is] costing me time, potential income, and mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More significantly, though,” she adds, “it’s part of a massive, multifarious online harassment campaign that has saturated my life for the past decade — and, on a broader scale, is actively driving women off the Internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I ask West if the thinks “troll” is still the correct word to encapsulate someone whose actions have such serious psychological consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are still people who I think the term troll is perfectly fine for,” she says. “It’s a hard thing to make a taxonomy of. There are people who are just screwing around and aren’t trying to emotionally traumatize people.” The difference, she adds, is when you look at the vicious language and the cumulative harm it does. “When people are posting your home address and threatening to rape you and clearly, deliberately trying to cause harm, we need to call that what it is,” she says. “We don’t need to give it a cute euphemism. We can call it harassment and stalking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when we do have the right language, then what? How do we deal with these linguistic knives? West doesn’t offer universal answers, especially since, as she emphasizes, her background isn’t in tech. In \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, she describes her personal method of coping, which is a combo of A) “don’t click on anything,” B) “mock and block” the person, and C) “wine.” If you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thelindywest\" target=\"_blank\">follow her on social media\u003c/a> you can watch plan B in action, as she slays her taunters with mostly witty comebacks like an action hero picking off the bad guys one by one. But she doesn’t want to set a standard that everyone needs to be such a warrior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t ever want to say that there’s one model for what you should do, because I don’t even want to say that it’s anyone’s responsibility to weather this kind of garbage,” she says. “But I hope that in the end we’ve managed to hang on to some of these voices who might otherwise have been driven away. 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It’s in the culmination of battle after battle — with \u003cem>The Stranger\u003c/em>’s then-editor Dan Savage when he went on a horrid blogging tear about fat people while West was still working for that paper; with pro-rape joke activists and fat chauvinists; and with her own self-image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> has many vulnerable and non-troll-y personal moments, about her father and his terminal illness, about her husband and how their relationship nearly fell apart, and about her body and all the moments she went from being horrified at its monthly bleeding or ability to break chairs to appreciating its strengths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a book that’s so politically and socially-minded, \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> is also infused with warmth and self-effacing humor, which is to be expected from a writer who has long been comfortable telling her personal story in order to shed light on the universal. (See also: #shoutyourabortion, the successful social media campaign she launched with two Seattle friends to turn the narrative around abortions from being shameful and/or secretive to being a very practical experience for some women).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And West says there’s more humor to come. Her main priority now is to get through a follow-up to \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em> — which she loved writing because working on a book “keeps me off the Internet.” The concept behind the next one is secret for now, she says, but she will divulge that it’s going to be funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I \u003cem>always\u003c/em> just wanted to write funny things,” she says. Instead, she says she got dragged into more political writing, which she also loves and feels is very necessary. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003ch4>KQED’s Cy Musiker and David Wiegand share their picks for great events around the Bay Area this week.\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thedolist/2016/05/TDL20160520.mp3\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZrrYr2Tr5Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm X Jazz Festival \u003c/a>features some great local performers on three stages of dance, spoken word, and music. The festival is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, and you can bet you’ll hear about that from poet and jazz singer Avotcja (she’s reviving her “Oaktown Blues”), and from writers Kamau Daoud and \u003ca href=\"http://chinakahodge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinaka Hodge\u003c/a>. There’s also music out of NOLA from Mr. Blazio and his New Orleans Second Line Band (displaced from New Orleans after Katrina), plus DJ Davey D, dance from \u003ca href=\"http://www.congolesecamp.org/CDDW/node/236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fua Dia Congo\u003c/a>, and more. Details for the Malcolm X Jazz Festival at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://localwiki.org/oakland/San_Antonio_Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Antonio Park \u003c/a>are \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/EastSideArtsAlliance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11597687\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SF-Porchfest.png\" alt=\"SF Porchfest\" width=\"602\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SF-Porchfest.png 602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SF-Porchfest-400x325.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Porchfest \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy Porchfest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SF Porchfest\u003c/a> is back for a second year. This free (Cheap Thrill!) community building event puts musicians in backyards, garages, and on front steps all over the Mission District. If you don’t like one band, wander down the street, meet some neighbors, and check out another show. Deadbeat Dads, Dirty Cello, Claudia and Friends, and Los Pereguinos Còsmicos are among the featured bands. Details for SF Porchfest’s day of music on Mission District stoops are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfporchfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCAgM_G8gHA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Through June 12:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Clear_Day_You_Can_See_Forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>On a Clear Day You Can See Forever\u003c/em>\u003c/a> was both a lovely earworm of a song, and a mixed success as a stage musical by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner. Now New Conservatory Theater is reviving a 2011 rewrite of the show by Peter Parnell. It mixes some elements of the original Broadway and the later film productions, but most significantly gives the show a gay lead, replacing the reincarnated heroine Daisy (played by Barbara Harris on Broadway and Barbara Streisand in the movie) with David. If anyone can pull this off, it’s The New Conservatory Theater. Details for their production \u003ca href=\"http://www.nctcsf.org/2015-16-season/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z775tHpWDNw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Through June 18:\u003c/strong> Meanwhile, Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco’s “Live Professional Queer Theater” is doing a version of \u003cem>Present Laughter\u003c/em>… Noel Coward’s semi-autobiographical comedy about an actor having a midlife crisis because he’s turning 40. (David and I laugh at midlife crises before the age of 60). Theater Rhino is making the most of the subtext for this show, that the hero “thinks the world of himself, and so do all his girlfriends and boyfriends.” Details for Present Laughter at Theatre Rhino are \u003ca href=\"http://www.therhino.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqmz4gE15cU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/singers/tenor/ian-bostridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Bostridge\u003c/a> literally wrote the book on Schubert, a dissection of his most famous song cycle, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Schuberts-Winter-Journey-Anatomy-Obsession/dp/030796163X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Winterreise\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and he’ll do a recital of Schubert Lieder Saturday at Herbst Theater. It’s a great example of the kind of intimate performance \u003ca href=\"http://www.performances.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Performances\u003c/a> has perfected under founding President Ruth Felt. She’s stepping down in August, to be replaced by Melanie Smith, former director for the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgirlschorus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Girl’s Chorus.\u003c/a> “Over the years,” Smith told me, “San Francisco Performances has cultivated and developed an audience with very sophisticated ears, passionate about these forms of music. They love it. They become sort of groupies for some of these artists. And I think that’s unique in this city still.” Details for the Ian Bostridge recital are \u003ca href=\"http://www.performances.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11597688\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11597688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Attendees enter Oakland City Hall for the first annual Oakland Book Festival\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Oakland-Book-Fest.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees enter Oakland City Hall for the first annual Oakland Book Festival \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy Oakland Book Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 22:\u003c/strong> The Oakland Book Festival (another Cheap Thrill! It’s free) is back Sunday for a second year. The theme this year is labor, allowing for discussion of everything from the gig economy, as Uber moves its headquarters in up the street, to a panel called “Working in Silicon Valley.” Expect 200 writers including locals like Mary Roach, Greil Marcus, Frank Chin, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. You’ll find children’s book authors at Laurel Books across the street. Details on all the panels and readings are \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdB296pKdPI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 27-29:\u003c/strong> BottleRock Napa Valley is a week away, but it’s by no means too soon to plan how you’re getting there and what bands to catch. We’re partial to the pop grooves of \u003ca href=\"http://www.grouplovemusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grouplove \u003c/a>(above), guitar shredder Buddy Guy, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fantasticnegrito.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a>, LA’s \u003ca href=\"http://ozomatli.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozomatli\u003c/a>, Brooklyn’s \u003ca href=\"http://pimpsofjoytime.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimps of Joytown\u003c/a>, The \u003ca href=\"http://thepharcyde.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pharcyde,\u003c/a> the old master \u003ca href=\"http://www.steviewonder.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stevie Wonder\u003c/a>, and the classic goofball of \u003ca href=\"http://cheechandchong.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheech and Chong\u003c/a>. But note that BottleRock is sold out, so your best chance to catch some of these bands, and in far more intimate venues, is at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/aftershows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“aftershows.”\u003c/a> We’re thinking retro rockers \u003ca href=\"http://thestruts.rtouring.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Struts \u003c/a>playing \u003ca href=\"http://theritzsanjose.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ritz\u003c/a> in San Jose one night, and joining Grouplove at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvoh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Opera House\u003c/a> the next; The Pharcyde at \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptowntheatrenapa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa’s Uptown Theatre;\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanferminband.com/#news-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Fermin \u003c/a>and son of a preacher man \u003ca href=\"http://sonlittlemusic.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Son Little\u003c/a> both do shows at \u003ca href=\"http://www.silosnapa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silo’s Club \u003c/a>in Napa, and lots more. “Aftershow” details are \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/aftershows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21: \u003c/strong>One more Cheap Thrill! Luis Valdez’s \u003ca href=\"http://elteatrocampesino.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Teatro Campesino \u003c/a>is staging \u003cem>The Popul Vuh, \u003c/em>the Mayan\u003cem> \u003c/em>creation myth, in a free performance in the schoolyard at \u003ca href=\"https://cces-sfusd-ca.schoolloop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cesar Chavez Elementary \u003c/a>Saturday at 2pm. How often can you see a play in Spanish, English, and Quiché? Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.brava.org/current-shows/current-shows/popol-vuh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Theater Rhino is making the most of the subtext for this show, that the hero “thinks the world of himself, and so do all his girlfriends and boyfriends.” Details for Present Laughter at Theatre Rhino are \u003ca href=\"http://www.therhino.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wqmz4gE15cU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wqmz4gE15cU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/singers/tenor/ian-bostridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Bostridge\u003c/a> literally wrote the book on Schubert, a dissection of his most famous song cycle, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Schuberts-Winter-Journey-Anatomy-Obsession/dp/030796163X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Winterreise\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and he’ll do a recital of Schubert Lieder Saturday at Herbst Theater. It’s a great example of the kind of intimate performance \u003ca href=\"http://www.performances.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Performances\u003c/a> has perfected under founding President Ruth Felt. She’s stepping down in August, to be replaced by Melanie Smith, former director for the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgirlschorus.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Girl’s Chorus.\u003c/a> “Over the years,” Smith told me, “San Francisco Performances has cultivated and developed an audience with very sophisticated ears, passionate about these forms of music. They love it. They become sort of groupies for some of these artists. 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It’s free) is back Sunday for a second year. The theme this year is labor, allowing for discussion of everything from the gig economy, as Uber moves its headquarters in up the street, to a panel called “Working in Silicon Valley.” Expect 200 writers including locals like Mary Roach, Greil Marcus, Frank Chin, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. You’ll find children’s book authors at Laurel Books across the street. Details on all the panels and readings are \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/NdB296pKdPI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/NdB296pKdPI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 27-29:\u003c/strong> BottleRock Napa Valley is a week away, but it’s by no means too soon to plan how you’re getting there and what bands to catch. We’re partial to the pop grooves of \u003ca href=\"http://www.grouplovemusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grouplove \u003c/a>(above), guitar shredder Buddy Guy, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fantasticnegrito.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a>, LA’s \u003ca href=\"http://ozomatli.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozomatli\u003c/a>, Brooklyn’s \u003ca href=\"http://pimpsofjoytime.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimps of Joytown\u003c/a>, The \u003ca href=\"http://thepharcyde.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pharcyde,\u003c/a> the old master \u003ca href=\"http://www.steviewonder.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stevie Wonder\u003c/a>, and the classic goofball of \u003ca href=\"http://cheechandchong.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheech and Chong\u003c/a>. But note that BottleRock is sold out, so your best chance to catch some of these bands, and in far more intimate venues, is at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/aftershows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“aftershows.”\u003c/a> We’re thinking retro rockers \u003ca href=\"http://thestruts.rtouring.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Struts \u003c/a>playing \u003ca href=\"http://theritzsanjose.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ritz\u003c/a> in San Jose one night, and joining Grouplove at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvoh.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa Valley Opera House\u003c/a> the next; The Pharcyde at \u003ca href=\"http://www.uptowntheatrenapa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napa’s Uptown Theatre;\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanferminband.com/#news-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Fermin \u003c/a>and son of a preacher man \u003ca href=\"http://sonlittlemusic.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Son Little\u003c/a> both do shows at \u003ca href=\"http://www.silosnapa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silo’s Club \u003c/a>in Napa, and lots more. “Aftershow” details are \u003ca href=\"http://www.bottlerocknapavalley.com/aftershows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 21: \u003c/strong>One more Cheap Thrill! 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ktempestbradford.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>The wave of conversation about diversity and representation in fiction is about to crest again: Women swept this year’s Nebula Awards, handed out this past weekend in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the fiction awards — for short story, novelette, novella, novel, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult novels — went to women authors, and \u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em> (a film NPR’s Chris Kilmek called a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/05/14/406009465/a-visceral-inventive-blockbuster-roars-to-life-in-mad-max-fury-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boldly feminist chase flick\u003c/a>“) won the Ray Bradbury Award for dramatic presentation. (The Solstice Award — given occasionally at the discretion of the SFWA board to people who’ve made a big impact in the field — did go to a man, the late Terry Pratchett.) In some ways the winners, and the full nominating ballot they were chosen from, represent a local, genre-specific eddy of change in the larger ocean of literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is a product of our time that great stories, diverse stories, are appearing and being celebrated,” says Sarah Pinsker, whose story “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sarahpinsker.com/our_lady_of_the_open_road/\">Our Lady of the Open Road\u003c/a>” won best novelette.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n\u003ch2>2015 Nebula Award Winners\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch4>Best Novel: ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Best Novella: ‘Binti’ by Nnedi Okorafor\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Best Novelette: ‘Our Lady of the Open Road’ by Sarah Pinsker\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Best Short Story: “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy: ‘Updraft’ by Fran Wilde\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation: ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris\u003c/h4>\n\u003ch4>Solstice Award: Terry Pratchett\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Nebulas are nominated by and voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), an organization made up of working writers, editors, and other publishing professionals. They’re given out during the group’s annual conference, which is dedicated to celebrating, educating, and supporting genre writers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s celebration started with the presentation of the SFWA Grand Master award to C. J. Cherryh, honoring her lifetime contributions to the science fiction and fantasy field. Then, in category after category, authors like Alyssa Wong, Nnedi Okorafor, and Naomi Novik took home glittering nebulae and planet replicas encased in clear Lucite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some observers, this might signal a dramatic shift in the science fiction and fantasy genres, which are often perceived as being a (white) boys’ club that’s only recently begun to diversify. But that’s not the whole picture, as the Nebulas themselves prove. This isn’t the first time women have swept the awards; you have to go back to the late 1960s and early 1970s, the very beginning of the Nebulas, to find a group of years dominated by men — and even then the list of nominees included women and one of the men consistently winning was African-American author Samuel R Delany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend’s winners reflect many different types of diversity beyond gender. Half are women of color, half are self-identified queer women – which mirrors the overall diversity of the ballot. 24 out of the 34 works nominated for the award were written by women from multiple racial and cultural backgrounds and a spectrum of sexual orientations. Of the 10 works by men, five of them were written by people of color and queer authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Nebula ballot is everything a ballot should be in this community,” said Brooke Bolander, author of the nominated story “\u003ca href=\"http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shall-know-trail-dead/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead\u003c/a>.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>“It’s diverse, it’s wide-ranging, and it includes amazing stories by amazing authors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s an important point, given the ongoing conversation about diversity happening now in speculative fiction circles. The Hugos — the other major awards in the genre — are nominated by fans. Last year and again this year, Hugo nominations have been affected by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/08/19/432910333/as-more-women-minorities-win-hugos-sad-puppies-blast-sci-fi-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sad and Rabid Puppies groups\u003c/a>, who campaign against what they see as affirmative action-based nominating and voting in the Hugo and Nebula awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “people want these stories,” says Alyssa Wong. She was the first Filipino author to be nominated for the Nebula award last year and is now the first to win it for her 2015 short story “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers\u003c/a>.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>Though she says she’s seen some Puppy-style criticism of her success, most of the reaction has been positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Readers “want to read stories from the points of view of people who have been historically been locked out of the genre,” Wong says. “‘Hungry Daughters’ is about a group of women who are all Asian-American and all from very different backgrounds, all of whom feel isolated in some way … But clearly this is not just Asian-American audiences who this is resonating with. I’m appreciative that people are reading more widely now. 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Here are all the new things I discovered about Joanna Newsom and her music:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Her most interesting fan interaction: A woman approached Joanna, presented her tween daughter and said she gave birth to her while listening to Joanna's music.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The event took place on Hayes Street at the Nourse Theater, which reminded Joanna of her time working in retail on that very street years ago. She said she was awful at it. When women would try garments on and fish for permission to buy something expensive by saying things like \"It's so beautiful, but I should probably pay rent,\" Joanna would say \"That sounds important! You should pay rent!\" instead of the shop girl refrain, \"Oh, forget that! 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Surgery was encouraged, but because of horror stories Joanna had heard about how some who undergo the process lose their ability to sing, she decided to go on a two-month vocal rest instead.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>She would walk around with a button that explained that she wasn't speaking and a dry-erase board to communicate. Because her hometown of Nevada City is also home to a lot of performance artists and buskers, many thought it was an art project. So she changed the language, only to then have people assume she had a \"horrible disease\" or that she was dying. She eventually figured out the right message to get the point across.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>After her vocal rest, she gained 5 notes at the top of her register and 6 notes at the bottom. She now practices \"the same hygiene\" on her voice as she does with her harp, by doing vocal exercises for 30 minutes before every sound check, rehearsal and performance.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The way she found out Paul Thomas Anderson wanted her to be in the film adaptation of \u003cem>Inherent Vice\u003c/em>: Warner Bros. called out of the blue asking for measurements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Like the rest of us, Joanna also procrastinates. 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At random moments I’ll recall moments and characters from her novels — \u003cem>Love Medicine\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse — \u003c/em>because they are unforgettable like that. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityarts.net/event/louise-erdrich/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erdrich also \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2475293\">appears at Kepler’s Books\u003c/a> on May 18. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, May 21: Writers with Drinks at the Make-Out Room, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11571319\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11571319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1.jpg\" alt=\"kwan1\" width=\"202\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1-400x307.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwam Booth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you like fantasy novels? 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Other readers in May include Yangsze Choo, David Lau, and Ariel Waldman. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/118512268560130/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, May 22: Flight of Poets at Gundlach Bundschu Winery, Sonoma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11571320\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 191px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11571320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024.jpg\" alt=\"Ada Limon reads at Flight of Poets. \" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-600x600.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/IMG_4024-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ada Limon will read at Flight of Poets.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imagine — it’s a beautiful golden-hazed Sunday afternoon in a Sonoma vineyard and you are sipping on a fancy wine curated by a renowned sommelier, as a quartet of the coolest local poets read from their work. No, you haven’t time-traveled back to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury_Group\">Bloomsbury Set’s\u003c/a> days of leisurely literary glory. This is the real deal, a Wine Country iteration of the popular Flight of Poets reading series. Sommelier Christopher Sawyer pairs each poet — Hollie Hardy, Ada Limon, Dean Rader, and Tess Taylor — with a wine “carefully selected to illuminate their work.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-of-poets-at-gun-bun-tickets-24638066119\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, May 22: Oakland Book Festival at Frank Ogawa Plaza and other locations.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s festival features a banner line-up of novelists, poets, journalists and many more book-loving people. The “Marathon Reading,” sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://www.nomadicpress.org/\">Nomadic Press\u003c/a>, sees over 100 writers (see the full list on the website) reading three minutes of material backed up by band of local musicians. The line-up of panels, most with a social justice lens, is positively drool-worthy and will have you running back and forth between venues to catch all the goodness. \u003cstrong>Melissa Gira Grant\u003c/strong> on sex work and sex workers; \u003cstrong>Mary Roach\u003c/strong> on, well, the adventures of Mary Roach; \u003cstrong>Michael Eric Dyson\u003c/strong> on Malcolm X; \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> editor Clara Jeffrey on journalism and digital media. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/festival-2016/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, May 17: Louise Erdrich at Nourse Theater, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11571318\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/u341FEVWH7ngw7NLVXIcKIKW2pmYAGlw8rbMsYHBRIAG5OUet9tcq9F2XjffXkZsjELHH1dotzfe59Az2vNK7LiZyZNsBWsKtMX1WWsW1OYzkgsRAdZgmVYczu.png\" alt=\"u34+1F!EVWH7ngw7NLVXIcKIKW2pmYA+Gl!w8rbMsYH!BRIAG5OUet9tcq9F2XjffXkZsjELHH1dotzfe59Az2vNK7LiZyZN+sBWsKtMX1WWsW1OYzkgsRAdZgmVYczu\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\">Read the description of \u003cem>LaRose\u003c/em>, the latest novel from prolific, National Book Award winner Louise Erdrich and I dare you to tell me it doesn’t sound amazing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In LaRose, Landreaux Iron kills his neighbor’s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich, in a hunting accident. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux’s wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty’s mother, Nola. Horrified at what he’s done, the recovered alcoholic turns to tradition the sweat lodge for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. “Our son will be your son now,” they tell them.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Every book I’ve encountered by Erdrich, one of our best contemporary Native American novelists, has stuck with me for long after the actual act of reading. At random moments I’ll recall moments and characters from her novels — \u003cem>Love Medicine\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse — \u003c/em>because they are unforgettable like that. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityarts.net/event/louise-erdrich/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erdrich also \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2475293\">appears at Kepler’s Books\u003c/a> on May 18. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, May 21: Writers with Drinks at the Make-Out Room, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11571319\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 202px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11571319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1.jpg\" alt=\"kwan1\" width=\"202\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/kwan1-400x307.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kwam Booth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you like fantasy novels? Afro-Futurism? Drinking? Then the latest Writers with Drinks is right up your alley. Canadian fantasy novelist Guy Gavriel Kay is the featured reader. He won the World Fantasy Award for his book Ysabel in 2008. \u003cem>Children of Earth and Sky\u003c/em>, his latest novel, dwells in spies, elite infantries, one power-hungry khalif, pirates, and a daughter seeking vengeance. Sounds like a good time. Reader \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Boothism\">Kwan Booth\u003c/a> is a founding member of the \u003ca href=\"http://blackfuturistproject.org/about-black-futurists/\">Black Futurist Project\u003c/a> and producer of the Black Futurists Speaks literary series. He also created the “Sit Next to a Black Person Month” community media project. Other readers in May include Yangsze Choo, David Lau, and Ariel Waldman. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/118512268560130/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In Sarah Parrish’s second-grade classroom, the colors are loud, but the kids are quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Thursday morning. Her students sit at their desks, reading to themselves. Books about Ramona and Junie B. Jones. Mystery books, fantasy books …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisa Sotelino has just finished \u003cem>Horse Diaries #3: Koda\u003c/em>. She grins when asked about it, showing a mouthful of light green braces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to see other people, or animals’ point of view,” she explains, “because, well, you can’t \u003cem>be\u003c/em> a different person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, a boy named Alec Mahini talks about his love for fantasy books: “It makes me feel that I’m in the adventure kind of, like the narrator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their teacher thinks all these genres — fantasy, mystery, biography — are worth reading. “Any book that can hook their interest is wonderful,” Parrish explains. “Because we want to encourage that reading. The fun and excitement of it — that kind of spark is really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem totally obvious: Children should read fun, fantastical books in the classroom and outside of it, so they can learn to love to read. But it turns out that this particular view of children’s books is relatively new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American classrooms have had some form of children’s books since the 17th century, but the books teachers have used, and the way they use them, have changed dramatically. For our \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/series/359620445/tools-of-the-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tools of the Trade \u003c/a>series, we decided to go back to the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 1: Once upon a time (in the late 1600s), in a land far, far away (England), there lived a British philosopher named John Locke.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s mostly remembered for his works of political theory. But for our purposes, let’s focus on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bartleby.com/37/1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short book he wrote in 1693\u003c/a>, called \u003cem>Some Thoughts Concerning Education. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locke wanted to change education — and one of his big ideas was to make reading fun. The alphabet, he wrote, should be taught with dice games, and readers should start with “easy, pleasant” books, even books with pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> These are not unusual ideas today, but they were relatively new in their time. The first widely printed picture book for kids — the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28299/28299-h/28299-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orbis Pictus\u003c/a> \u003cem>—\u003c/em> had been published only a few decades before, in 1658.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Locke put it, ” … ’tis usually long before Learners find any Use or Pleasure in reading which may tempt them to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular school books in Locke’s time, like the American \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/nep/1777/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Primer\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>were not about storytelling. The \u003cem>Primer \u003c/em>did have some pictures, but it was mostly tables of letters and syllables, used to help people learn to read the Bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Locke’s theories took hold, both in England and in the United States, they shaped many of the children’s books that were published in the 1700s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take \u003cem>The History of Little Goody Two Shoes\u003c/em>, from 1765. It sticks closely to Locke’s educational model of making learning a game. Little \u003ca href=\"http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-history-of-little-goody-two-shoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margery Meanwell\u003c/a>, also known as Goody Two Shoes, grows up poor, but betters herself through charity and education. For most of the book, she goes around teaching spelling through games, as she does in this passage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11568076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 356px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/ba0011_enlarge_custom-c74dc7738977aac77c59b043de6e5e000709ddc7.jpg\" alt=\"An edition of the <em>The New England Primer</em>, from 1803.\" width=\"356\" height=\"441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11568076\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An edition of the \u003cem>The New England Primer\u003c/em>, from 1803. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rare Book and Special Collections Division/Library Of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“The usual manner of spelling, or carrying on the game, as they called it, was this; supposed the word to be spelt was plumb pudding (and who can suppose better) the children were placed in a circle, and the first brought the letter p, the next l, the next u, the next m, the next b, and so on, until the whole was spelt; and if any one brought a wrong letter, he was to pay a fine, or play no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But even though \u003cem>Goody Two Shoes\u003c/em> had a plot, it was not the kind of fantastical adventure we’re familiar with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Locke was very suspicious of anything that might be thought to escape the real,” explains William Gleason, a professor of English at Princeton University who researches children’s literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that there wasn’t any fantasy,” Gleason adds, “but the dominant strain — and particularly the strain that was educationally approved — was highly rationalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 2: Then, we fell down the rabbit hole.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis Carroll published \u003cem>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland \u003c/em>in 1865.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It offers such an amazing imagined world of curiosity that it really kind of changes the game,” says Gleason. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-h/11-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice\u003c/a> kicked off a whole series of books that focused on imagination — \u003cem>Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, The Little Princess, The Secret Garden — \u003c/em>books now considered staples of the “golden age” of children’s literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gleason says these books were part of a shifting sense of what childhood really meant. In the late 1800s, a child, or, at least, a middle-class Anglo-American child, was becoming less of an economic unit and more of an emotional one. Childhood was seen as a space of protected innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>So Alice \u003c/em>embraced childhood curiosity and wonder, reinventing children’s books. She did not, however, reinvent the American classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11568077\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 472px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/alice_par_john_tenniel_30-10748a63687640c52692ac4835378dd0ecac2ea4.png\" alt=\"Alice attempting to play croquet using a flamingo in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'\" width=\"472\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11568077\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/alice_par_john_tenniel_30-10748a63687640c52692ac4835378dd0ecac2ea4.png 472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/alice_par_john_tenniel_30-10748a63687640c52692ac4835378dd0ecac2ea4-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice attempting to play croquet using a flamingo in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’ \u003ccite>(Photo: John Tenniel - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Wikipedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Books like \u003cem>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland\u003c/em> and the \u003cem>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c/em> sold well, but they weren’t really taught in schools. That’s partly because they took an almost anti-educational stance. Huck, for the most part, doesn’t go to school, and Alice’s book smarts don’t get her very far in Wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may be another reason, though, that authors like Twain and Carroll didn’t make it into classrooms. Seth Lerer argues that those books didn’t align with a major purpose of U.S. education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the assimilation of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lerer studies children’s literature at the University of California, San Diego. He points out a widely popular children’s book from that time that did make it into schools: Hendrik van Loon’s\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/754/754-h/754-h.htm#link2H_4_0003\">The Story of Mankind\u003c/a>, an illustrated walk through the history of Western civilization. Its central themes are individualism and democratic participation — ideals that schools at that time were seeking to instill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The classroom,” Lerer says, “is the educational Ellis Island for early 20th century America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 3: The Russians are coming.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-20th century, the U.S. competition with the Soviet Union drove a re-evaluation of children’s books in the classroom, according to Philip Nel, who studies children’s literature at Kansas State University. Suddenly, the whole country was afraid that the U.S. was falling behind, and that education was to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudolf Flesch’s best-seller, \u003cem>Why Johnny Can’t Read, and What You Can Do About It,\u003c/em> and a piece in \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine titled \u003cem>Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? \u003c/em>led the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=JFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=why+do+students+bog+down+on+first+r&source=bl&ots=GHqaEJys9_&sig=4bfHzxyN8uiDqShLgE6BDCvRN6g&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjLyvqA1sPMAhXEFT4KHaboCn4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=why%20do%20students%20bog%20down%20on%20first%20r&f=false\">The Life article\u003c/a>, by the journalist and author John Hersey, suggested that boring \u003cem>Dick and Jane \u003c/em>readers were to blame for Americans’ subpar literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many children understandably prefer lurid comic books and television shows to insipid, goody-goody school readers,” he wrote. “In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e. sometimes misbehave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So began the effort to make early readers that children might actually enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11568078\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of the shift from manpower to machine power in 'The Story of Mankind.'\" width=\"200\" height=\"205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11568078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of the shift from manpower to machine power in ‘The Story of Mankind.’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Hendrik Willem van Loon /Ohio State University Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Cat in the Hat. Green Eggs and Ham. Are You My Mother? The Berenstain Bears. Go, Dog. Go!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seuss and Sendak were unleashed in schools, and the shift away from morally improving, no-frills lessons that began with \u003cem>Alice \u003c/em>a century earlier was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 4: To \u003cem>The Hunger Games \u003c/em>and beyond.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Gleason, the Princeton professor, sees another shift taking place, slowly. A shift toward books that confront the complexity — and deep emotional challenges — that children and adolescents face. There’s also been a growing move toward \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/26/467969663/wheres-the-color-in-kids-lit-ask-the-girl-with-1-000-books-and-counting\">books that reflect the diversity\u003c/a> of the current student population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books like Judy Blume’s \u003cem>Are You There God? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In Sarah Parrish’s second-grade classroom, the colors are loud, but the kids are quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Thursday morning. Her students sit at their desks, reading to themselves. Books about Ramona and Junie B. Jones. Mystery books, fantasy books …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisa Sotelino has just finished \u003cem>Horse Diaries #3: Koda\u003c/em>. She grins when asked about it, showing a mouthful of light green braces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to see other people, or animals’ point of view,” she explains, “because, well, you can’t \u003cem>be\u003c/em> a different person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, a boy named Alec Mahini talks about his love for fantasy books: “It makes me feel that I’m in the adventure kind of, like the narrator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their teacher thinks all these genres — fantasy, mystery, biography — are worth reading. “Any book that can hook their interest is wonderful,” Parrish explains. “Because we want to encourage that reading. The fun and excitement of it — that kind of spark is really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem totally obvious: Children should read fun, fantastical books in the classroom and outside of it, so they can learn to love to read. But it turns out that this particular view of children’s books is relatively new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American classrooms have had some form of children’s books since the 17th century, but the books teachers have used, and the way they use them, have changed dramatically. For our \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/series/359620445/tools-of-the-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tools of the Trade \u003c/a>series, we decided to go back to the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 1: Once upon a time (in the late 1600s), in a land far, far away (England), there lived a British philosopher named John Locke.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s mostly remembered for his works of political theory. But for our purposes, let’s focus on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bartleby.com/37/1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short book he wrote in 1693\u003c/a>, called \u003cem>Some Thoughts Concerning Education. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locke wanted to change education — and one of his big ideas was to make reading fun. The alphabet, he wrote, should be taught with dice games, and readers should start with “easy, pleasant” books, even books with pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> These are not unusual ideas today, but they were relatively new in their time. The first widely printed picture book for kids — the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28299/28299-h/28299-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orbis Pictus\u003c/a> \u003cem>—\u003c/em> had been published only a few decades before, in 1658.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Locke put it, ” … ’tis usually long before Learners find any Use or Pleasure in reading which may tempt them to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular school books in Locke’s time, like the American \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/nep/1777/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Primer\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>were not about storytelling. The \u003cem>Primer \u003c/em>did have some pictures, but it was mostly tables of letters and syllables, used to help people learn to read the Bible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Locke’s theories took hold, both in England and in the United States, they shaped many of the children’s books that were published in the 1700s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take \u003cem>The History of Little Goody Two Shoes\u003c/em>, from 1765. It sticks closely to Locke’s educational model of making learning a game. Little \u003ca href=\"http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-history-of-little-goody-two-shoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margery Meanwell\u003c/a>, also known as Goody Two Shoes, grows up poor, but betters herself through charity and education. For most of the book, she goes around teaching spelling through games, as she does in this passage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11568076\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 356px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/ba0011_enlarge_custom-c74dc7738977aac77c59b043de6e5e000709ddc7.jpg\" alt=\"An edition of the <em>The New England Primer</em>, from 1803.\" width=\"356\" height=\"441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11568076\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An edition of the \u003cem>The New England Primer\u003c/em>, from 1803. \u003ccite>(Photo: Rare Book and Special Collections Division/Library Of Congress)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“The usual manner of spelling, or carrying on the game, as they called it, was this; supposed the word to be spelt was plumb pudding (and who can suppose better) the children were placed in a circle, and the first brought the letter p, the next l, the next u, the next m, the next b, and so on, until the whole was spelt; and if any one brought a wrong letter, he was to pay a fine, or play no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But even though \u003cem>Goody Two Shoes\u003c/em> had a plot, it was not the kind of fantastical adventure we’re familiar with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Locke was very suspicious of anything that might be thought to escape the real,” explains William Gleason, a professor of English at Princeton University who researches children’s literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean that there wasn’t any fantasy,” Gleason adds, “but the dominant strain — and particularly the strain that was educationally approved — was highly rationalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 2: Then, we fell down the rabbit hole.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis Carroll published \u003cem>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland \u003c/em>in 1865.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It offers such an amazing imagined world of curiosity that it really kind of changes the game,” says Gleason. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-h/11-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice\u003c/a> kicked off a whole series of books that focused on imagination — \u003cem>Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, The Little Princess, The Secret Garden — \u003c/em>books now considered staples of the “golden age” of children’s literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gleason says these books were part of a shifting sense of what childhood really meant. In the late 1800s, a child, or, at least, a middle-class Anglo-American child, was becoming less of an economic unit and more of an emotional one. Childhood was seen as a space of protected innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>So Alice \u003c/em>embraced childhood curiosity and wonder, reinventing children’s books. 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That’s partly because they took an almost anti-educational stance. Huck, for the most part, doesn’t go to school, and Alice’s book smarts don’t get her very far in Wonderland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may be another reason, though, that authors like Twain and Carroll didn’t make it into classrooms. Seth Lerer argues that those books didn’t align with a major purpose of U.S. education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the assimilation of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lerer studies children’s literature at the University of California, San Diego. He points out a widely popular children’s book from that time that did make it into schools: Hendrik van Loon’s\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/754/754-h/754-h.htm#link2H_4_0003\">The Story of Mankind\u003c/a>, an illustrated walk through the history of Western civilization. Its central themes are individualism and democratic participation — ideals that schools at that time were seeking to instill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The classroom,” Lerer says, “is the educational Ellis Island for early 20th century America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chapter 3: The Russians are coming.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-20th century, the U.S. competition with the Soviet Union drove a re-evaluation of children’s books in the classroom, according to Philip Nel, who studies children’s literature at Kansas State University. Suddenly, the whole country was afraid that the U.S. was falling behind, and that education was to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudolf Flesch’s best-seller, \u003cem>Why Johnny Can’t Read, and What You Can Do About It,\u003c/em> and a piece in \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine titled \u003cem>Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? \u003c/em>led the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=JFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=why+do+students+bog+down+on+first+r&source=bl&ots=GHqaEJys9_&sig=4bfHzxyN8uiDqShLgE6BDCvRN6g&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjLyvqA1sPMAhXEFT4KHaboCn4Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=why%20do%20students%20bog%20down%20on%20first%20r&f=false\">The Life article\u003c/a>, by the journalist and author John Hersey, suggested that boring \u003cem>Dick and Jane \u003c/em>readers were to blame for Americans’ subpar literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many children understandably prefer lurid comic books and television shows to insipid, goody-goody school readers,” he wrote. “In bookstores, anyone can buy brighter, livelier books featuring strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e. sometimes misbehave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So began the effort to make early readers that children might actually enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11568078\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of the shift from manpower to machine power in 'The Story of Mankind.'\" width=\"200\" height=\"205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11568078\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/manpowerandmachinepower_custom-1801588f2d3e7f0105e9712c8815b14fa0caceda-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of the shift from manpower to machine power in ‘The Story of Mankind.’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Hendrik Willem van Loon /Ohio State University Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Cat in the Hat. 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"content": "\u003cp>Chinaka Hodge’s talent seems to have no limit. She’s \u003ca href=\"http://mirrorsineverycorner.blogspot.com/\">written an experimental play\u003c/a> starring Daveed Diggs, the Oakland-born rapper \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4287898/tony-award-hamilton-daveed-diggs-jefferson-lafayette/\">recently nominated for a Tony\u003c/a> for his role in \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>. She’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTLuzkqpZc\">hot-as-hell guest MC\u003c/a>. She’s written a screenplay that earned her a fellowship at the Sundance Institute. She’s made an impact as an educator with Youth Speaks, the influential poetry nonprofit that impacts kids’ lives across the Bay Area. She’s teamed with the director Ryan Coogler (\u003cem>Fruitvale\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Creed\u003c/em>) on a new drama series about young people affected by institutionalization. And she has a sense of humor: check out her acting role as a gun-toting criminal with an elderly lover in the \u003cem>Harold and Maude\u003c/em>-gone-amok video for Atmosphere’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrDVPsVbVA\">Kanye West\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of this already stacked resumé, Hodge is a well-received poet. Her second poetry collection, \u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em>, comes out in June on the City Lights imprint Sister Spit. Hodge grew up in Oakland, under the influence of hip-hop and nineties East Bay culture. In fact, she’s a founding member of collaborative hip-hop ensemble \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEphXa7sRD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Getback\u003c/a>, along with Daveed Diggs and others. In this new collection of 25 poems, she examines her own life through the lens of hip-hop, modeling the book’s length on a classic double album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11554040 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/unnamed-e1462476777205.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collection’s title poem is a scathing critique of “washed-up” rappers “otherwise known as old dudes rocking old fits” and hitting on teenage girls. Hodge’s narrator goes to a party in New York, where she’s propositioned by a man “round greying in a shirt that came with the pants / and a pair of gazelles actually older than my father.” He hands her his coke-white business card, and, as it turns out, the old guy is Positive K: You might remember him from the 1992 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYIpa1Ulvw\">I Got a Man\u003c/a>.” You can guess how the young lady responds to his groupie treatment of a woman two decades his junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poem sets the reader up for the rest of the collection’s excellent mix of humor, tragedy, and sly cultural and political allusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Title track” opens with this powerhouse stanza:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>no jazz men left: I date emcees,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>tries to rehabilitate them,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>into honest, working stiffs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>i foot the bills, handle\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the losses them come\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>loud leave softly\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>fall short break\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>daylight\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>gone\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The opening functions as a bit of braggadocio about all the rappers the narrator has hooked up with over the years, the men of “fast dishonest / words, thoughts, childish aliases” that morph swiftly into the “lames i held / on too long / way past / time.” The voice is harsh, unforgiving, a spotlight shone on all players involved, and on the futility of playing the same games over and over, until you end up “in the studio / four am red bull / china shopping / married to / same old / acts” — a familiar scenario to anyone that has spent any amount of intimate time with musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-800x434.jpg\" alt=\"Chinaka Hodge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-800x434.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-400x217.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-768x417.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-1180x640.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-960x521.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinaka Hodge. \u003ccite>(Author photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are 24 haikus for every year of the life of Notorious B.I.G., and couplets for every year of Tupac Shakur’s life, including one for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/04/you-cant-kill-the-revolution-davey-d-on-tupacs-mother-afeni-shakur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the late Afeni Shakur\u003c/a>: “your dear mama, eschews her crackfiend fame / afeni becomes a household, recognized name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other poems like “One Being the Other Woman,” “First Date with the Engaged Rapper,” and “Life is Good” speak of betrayal, the loneliness of being the second choice, or the disgust at discovering you’re the one being cheated on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ballad of Hollywood” captures the impulsive, destructive nature of anger; how a drink spilled on a prized silk shirt can lead to an explosion of violence, changing the entire course of a night out at the club. Hodge explores how violence infuses certain men with energy, offering a way to truly feel all the feels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You got to understand, he knows it’s fleeting\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>but when he draws someone’s blood away\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>from its course and holds it in his mouth\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>and fist at once he tastes tomorrow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he does feel like a new man\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>thumps a fist against his heart\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>invincible\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em> hits hard from beginning to end, but “The Oscars: an epic” is truly brutal in its insight about systemic racism and the aftermath of the killings of Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, and other young black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When they said it was fine for the boy to lay there\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>and the killer to walk. I was just outside of Folsom, drove\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>straight to his house. Waited for him to get off set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He held me while I sobbed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The arrests, the profiling, the random sanctioned violence: “Everyone black man I love been through it,” writes Hodge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, this is a book that begs to be read over and over, like a\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5zLq1zcdo\"> favorite album\u003c/a> that you play morning ’til night, until you know the lyrics, secret messages, and hard-won insights as intimately as you know your own beating heart. \u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em> is another gem from one of Oakland’s best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chinaka Hodge \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1233283343363499/\">appears at Freight and Salvage\u003c/a> on June 2, with Saul Williams and Black Spirituals, as part of the Bay Area Book Festival. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chinaka Hodge’s talent seems to have no limit. She’s \u003ca href=\"http://mirrorsineverycorner.blogspot.com/\">written an experimental play\u003c/a> starring Daveed Diggs, the Oakland-born rapper \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4287898/tony-award-hamilton-daveed-diggs-jefferson-lafayette/\">recently nominated for a Tony\u003c/a> for his role in \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>. She’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTLuzkqpZc\">hot-as-hell guest MC\u003c/a>. She’s written a screenplay that earned her a fellowship at the Sundance Institute. She’s made an impact as an educator with Youth Speaks, the influential poetry nonprofit that impacts kids’ lives across the Bay Area. She’s teamed with the director Ryan Coogler (\u003cem>Fruitvale\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Creed\u003c/em>) on a new drama series about young people affected by institutionalization. And she has a sense of humor: check out her acting role as a gun-toting criminal with an elderly lover in the \u003cem>Harold and Maude\u003c/em>-gone-amok video for Atmosphere’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrDVPsVbVA\">Kanye West\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of this already stacked resumé, Hodge is a well-received poet. Her second poetry collection, \u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em>, comes out in June on the City Lights imprint Sister Spit. Hodge grew up in Oakland, under the influence of hip-hop and nineties East Bay culture. In fact, she’s a founding member of collaborative hip-hop ensemble \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEphXa7sRD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Getback\u003c/a>, along with Daveed Diggs and others. In this new collection of 25 poems, she examines her own life through the lens of hip-hop, modeling the book’s length on a classic double album.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11554040 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/unnamed-e1462476777205.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The collection’s title poem is a scathing critique of “washed-up” rappers “otherwise known as old dudes rocking old fits” and hitting on teenage girls. Hodge’s narrator goes to a party in New York, where she’s propositioned by a man “round greying in a shirt that came with the pants / and a pair of gazelles actually older than my father.” He hands her his coke-white business card, and, as it turns out, the old guy is Positive K: You might remember him from the 1992 song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYIpa1Ulvw\">I Got a Man\u003c/a>.” You can guess how the young lady responds to his groupie treatment of a woman two decades his junior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poem sets the reader up for the rest of the collection’s excellent mix of humor, tragedy, and sly cultural and political allusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Title track” opens with this powerhouse stanza:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>no jazz men left: I date emcees,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>tries to rehabilitate them,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>into honest, working stiffs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>i foot the bills, handle\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the losses them come\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>loud leave softly\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>fall short break\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>daylight\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>gone\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The opening functions as a bit of braggadocio about all the rappers the narrator has hooked up with over the years, the men of “fast dishonest / words, thoughts, childish aliases” that morph swiftly into the “lames i held / on too long / way past / time.” The voice is harsh, unforgiving, a spotlight shone on all players involved, and on the futility of playing the same games over and over, until you end up “in the studio / four am red bull / china shopping / married to / same old / acts” — a familiar scenario to anyone that has spent any amount of intimate time with musicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11554035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-800x434.jpg\" alt=\"Chinaka Hodge.\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11554035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-800x434.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-400x217.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-768x417.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-1180x640.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges-960x521.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Chinakahodges.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinaka Hodge. \u003ccite>(Author photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are 24 haikus for every year of the life of Notorious B.I.G., and couplets for every year of Tupac Shakur’s life, including one for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/05/04/you-cant-kill-the-revolution-davey-d-on-tupacs-mother-afeni-shakur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the late Afeni Shakur\u003c/a>: “your dear mama, eschews her crackfiend fame / afeni becomes a household, recognized name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other poems like “One Being the Other Woman,” “First Date with the Engaged Rapper,” and “Life is Good” speak of betrayal, the loneliness of being the second choice, or the disgust at discovering you’re the one being cheated on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Ballad of Hollywood” captures the impulsive, destructive nature of anger; how a drink spilled on a prized silk shirt can lead to an explosion of violence, changing the entire course of a night out at the club. Hodge explores how violence infuses certain men with energy, offering a way to truly feel all the feels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You got to understand, he knows it’s fleeting\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>but when he draws someone’s blood away\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>from its course and holds it in his mouth\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>and fist at once he tastes tomorrow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he does feel like a new man\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>thumps a fist against his heart\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>invincible\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em> hits hard from beginning to end, but “The Oscars: an epic” is truly brutal in its insight about systemic racism and the aftermath of the killings of Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, and other young black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When they said it was fine for the boy to lay there\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>and the killer to walk. I was just outside of Folsom, drove\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>straight to his house. Waited for him to get off set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He held me while I sobbed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The arrests, the profiling, the random sanctioned violence: “Everyone black man I love been through it,” writes Hodge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, this is a book that begs to be read over and over, like a\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5zLq1zcdo\"> favorite album\u003c/a> that you play morning ’til night, until you know the lyrics, secret messages, and hard-won insights as intimately as you know your own beating heart. \u003cem>Dated Emcees\u003c/em> is another gem from one of Oakland’s best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chinaka Hodge \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1233283343363499/\">appears at Freight and Salvage\u003c/a> on June 2, with Saul Williams and Black Spirituals, as part of the Bay Area Book Festival. 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"content": "\u003cp>Let’s start with this: I am not here to hate bluntly on Gwyneth Paltrow. And a desire to do that is not, I swear to you, why I felt a subtle yet unmistakable gravitational pull toward the actress’s new San Francisco pop-up shop, \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/goop-mrkt/\">Goop MRKT\u003c/a> (apparently she got the memo about ditching vowels if you want to do good business in the Bay Area), when I learned she would be appearing there May 5 to sign her new cookbook and shower plebeians with her effervescent, organically produced glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwyneth is an easy target. Too easy, one could say. In this \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-woman-attacked_us_57289b7ae4b0bc9cb0447aed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrifying political climate\u003c/a>, with our current levels of income inequality — while five hunger strikers endanger themselves in the hopes of raising awareness about police brutality against young men of color \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/04/30/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change/\">four blocks away from my house\u003c/a> — it is all too convenient to point a finger at the extremely wealthy thin white blonde actress lady shilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455522716/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687682&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1455584215&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1VS4T5GV941V0EWNXQCW\">health-conscious cookbooks\u003c/a> and an organic skincare line as part of her \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/\">egregiously overpriced lifestyle brand\u003c/a> and say, “That right there, that’s a thing I know how to hate. That seems simple. Let’s just focus on that for today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hating on Gwyneth has, in fact, become such an\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2310405/Gwyneth-Paltrow-named-hated-celebrities-Hollywood-beats-Anne-Hathaway-Kristen-Stewart-poll.html\"> obvious national pastime\u003c/a> that when she was gruesomely killed off in the first 10 minutes of \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>a few years ago\u003cem>, \u003c/em>one had to wonder if Steven Soderbergh was enacting a bit of cinematic revenge porn for his audience’s collective benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gwyneth looking not that pretty \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gwyneth looking not that pretty in ‘Contagion.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which, in turn, brings up a slew of questions, such as: Is she in on the joke? Surely the most hated celebrity in America has an inkling of that status by now. On the other hand: Is a person whose online kitchenware store includes \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/copper-spoons\">$1200 spoons\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/apron-with-leather\">$200 apron\u003c/a> one must disassemble with a screwdriver in order to wash really a person who’s in touch with the rest of America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg\" alt=\"Paltrow-Vegetables1\" width=\"800\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-400x388.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-768x745.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I’m not here to add on the hate-pile, you might ask, then why did I join a couple hundred Gwyneth fans on the street in downtown San Francisco yesterday, all for the privilege of getting an up-close-and-personal look at her line of children’s clothes, face washes, and frying pans, then wait in line for nearly 90 minutes to have her royal blondness sign a cookbook for my mother?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can say I was genuinely curious about the interior of San Francisco’s only \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/S-F-move-to-protect-interior-of-Frank-Lloyd-6834897.php\">Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building\u003c/a>, which is the “mrkt” from whence Gwyneth shall sell her Goop until May 22. And I can promise that I really tried to leave my preconceived notions behind — to consciously uncouple, if you will, from whatever biases I may have previously formed about the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23876 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"goop-mrkt-details-left\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-960x683.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official press photos from the goop MRKT website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had questions, and I thought her devotees, these subjects of Gwyneth’s empire who had dutifully flocked here on a muggy, overcast Thursday morning, might answer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, I also had some time to kill. Gwyneth was due to sign books from 10:30 to noon; the doorman informed that me that the first people began lining up around 9am. By 10:30, when I arrived, the line stretched entirely down the length of Maiden Lane. Roughly 95 percent of these people were women; maybe 93 percent of them were white; 100 percent of them were beautiful. A special kind of beautiful. You know that specific kind of rich-people beautiful that involves perfect skin and shiny hair and flawless manicures and a general aura of effortlessness that somehow also communicates a great deal of effort and certainly a f*ck-ton of money? I was immediately aware of my chipped nail polish, of the stray cat hair on my jacket. I couldn’t tell if I hated everyone or wanted them to adopt me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What brings you here?” I asked about a dozen women, tossing my hair, trying my darnedest to act like I belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 10.26.36 PM\" width=\"475\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM-400x343.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been a fan of hers forever,” offered a woman with immaculate eyeliner. “I just think she’s really cool, and has a great sense of style. And I try to eat healthy, so her recipes are great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another told me she traveled for work frequently, and Gwyneth’s \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/city-guides/city-guide/\">hotel and restaurant tips \u003c/a>were always right up her alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said. “What do you do for work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work in marketing at Twitter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg\" alt=\"Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1440x1907.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1920x2542.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-960x1271.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18.jpg 1925w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another young woman who worked in PR revealed to me that this was not her first Goop experience this week: She had attended a Goop workout class at The Battery, San Francisco’s grand members-only club, the previous evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of workout class?” I asked. “Was Gwyneth there, like, on the floor doing Pilates with you guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, she wasn’t there,” she clarified with a laugh, looking starry-eyed at the thought. “Just a Goop thing. They had us, like, running around on the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"goop waterbottles for those goop workouts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goop waterbottles for those Goop workouts.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many attendees reported that they were in fact big fans of Gwyneth’s previous cookbooks, including \u003cem>My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness \u003c/em>and\u003cem> It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new book, out in time for Mother’s Day, is titled \u003cem>It’s All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook. \u003c/em>Its promotional copy, in case the title didn’t make this clear, emphasizes that these are Gwyneth’s favorite recipes for regular people like you and me — people with jobs, in other words, and without personal chefs, nor millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png\" alt=\"Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is filled, naturally, with photos of Gwyneth looking beautiful, wearing chunky knit sweaters at home or in nature with her children, in addition to photos of the beautiful meals she ostensibly prepares on weeknights when she is home from her imaginary regular-person job, and must feed her regular children without any help whatsoever. These spreads are interspersed with “easy” recipes — the very first in the book is for an “easy” acai bowl — plus stories about Gwyneth’s ostensible regular-person life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The persistent attempt to come off like a relatable human being results in some hilarious reaches, like the recipe for a beautiful, gourmet salad niçoise made with nine-minute eggs served on a fresh baguette, which Gwyneth suggests should really be enjoyed during a picnic with a bottle of rosé, but can also be wolfed down while sitting in one’s car waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice. (You can clearly envision the edit meetings: “That’s a thing people do, right?”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some actual excerpts from the book, selected via a process of opening it to random pages once I was home, writing this, eating cheese popcorn out of a bag that I bought at the liquor store across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cacio e pepe is one of my favorite simple pasta dishes, so when Thea and I started spiralizing vegetables like maniacs, we thought a zucchini noodle version might be nice. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’re short on time, get someone at the meat counter to pound out your chicken for you and be sure to let the lemon slices get caramelized and sweet before adding the other ingredients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When working on a GOOP story with the L.A.-based company Moon Juice, we learned the easiest-ever method for making instant almond milk: simply blend good almond butter and water together. Duh — why didn’t we think of that?! Here we make a hot version with fresh ginger and a little sesame oil to add roundness. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duh!! Anyway, the interior of the building was truly beautiful. With a nod from the doorman, I passed the rubicon (goopicon? sorry) to see beautiful assistants swiping credit cards through iPads as customers bought books for Gwyneth to sign; the line to meet her packed the spiral ramp to the second floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (9)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ground floor below, the Goop beauty and skincare line occupied one bright-white corner, while another, set up to look like an expensive but also regular-person living room, featured bookshelves full of architecture tomes and travel guides; $200 throw pillows; and black and white photographs lining each wall. (“She curated those herself,” I heard one impressed woman murmur to another, as Rihanna extolled the virtues of \u003cem>werk werk werk werk werk\u003c/em> over a PA.) A white old-timey bicycle was perched in another corner; I couldn’t tell if it was for sale or if perhaps Gwyneth had pedaled it here herself while carrying a basket overflowing with fresh vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23882\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (12)\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up the walkway, the line snaked past Goop’s various houseware and clothing lines — workout gear, children’s items, these weird things that were hanging on the wall and I still don’t know what they are after looking them up but they cost \u003cem>$300 each\u003c/em>. Oh wait, the tag says they’re “wall tassels.” That clears it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (22)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: As I made my way through the vortex, inching closer to the holy grail — Gwyneth had been set up for the book-signing behind a hilariously wide butcher-block table, accessorized with Goop dish sets and cast iron pans for that “I’m totally actually in Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen!” feeling — I felt some air leaking slowly from my dark balloon of repulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the fact that every single beautiful human I’d interacted with for the past hour and a half had been wonderfully kind and friendly. Then there was the fact that every person walking away from the table after meeting her looked like they could die happy, on the spot. Then, from 10 feet away, I could see Gwyneth’s own smile as she chatted up each beautiful human who’d come out to see her, and — in my limited experience with encountering celebrities in the flesh — it was among the most warm, lifelike, genuine smiles I’d seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg\" alt=\"32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1\" width=\"634\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg 634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was more like: Over the course of 90 minutes, I’d made peace with my incredulity. Because you know what? It’s fine to be obscenely wealthy. It’s fine that she was born into a Hollywood family, and has therefore been wealthy, and privileged, and ensconced in a bubble with people just like her, for literally her entire life. It’s even fine that she’s selling this \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/three-dip-board\">slab of wood you’re supposed to pay $395 to put hummus on\u003c/a>. (I mean it’s crazy, but it’s fine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is not why people hate her. Extreme wealth in and of itself is not grounds for ridicule in this country. It’s your attitude about it — your understanding of where you fit into the grand scheme of things — that can get you in trouble. The Kardashians are mocked for many things, but they have never pretended they cook their own meals. George Clooney owns a f*cking villa in Italy; he does not, however, have a weekly newsletter with suggestions for other people about how to decorate their Italian villas. (That I know of. Someone please sign me up immediately if I’m wrong.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg\" alt='Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has \"unexpected guests\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has “unexpected guests.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s complete lack of self-awareness or calculated business strategy or both, the idea of being so disconnected from reality that you see “regular person with a 9-to-5 and kids to feed” as a charming brand to try on is staggering; it’s homemaker fetishization of the most insidious degree. The fact that it’s difficult for busy people with little money to feed their children nutritious food is a source of real pain for real humans every day, not to mention the root of a massive national health crisis, and for Gwyneth Paltrow — who has publicly proved that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/17/a-hungry-gwyneth-paltrow-fails-the-food-stamp-challenge-four-days-in/\">woefully incapable of eating on a budget for more than four days\u003c/a> — to suggest that she can relate to this problem, let alone has solutions to it, is patently insulting. \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> is a book for people who can afford to not cook but want to feel like they’re the kind of people who do anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central conceit, that Gwyneth is a regular person in any way, is condescending and gross. It’s tacky. And the level of narcissism and near-sightedness it reveals implies a kind of existence \u003cem>I don’t actually think I would ever want.\u003c/em> I work for a public radio station, Gwyneth. I live in the most expensive city in America, one whose future is alarmingly uncertain. I’m hanging on by a thread, and relatively speaking I’m incredibly lucky: I walked by approximately 30 homeless people in and around BART stations just to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a $165 keychain by Stella McCartney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0229\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s aspirational, for sure,” the girl behind me in line said thoughtfully, of her affinity for Gwyn’s cookbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” I said. “Like if you’re eating the same dinner she’s eating, you might — ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of become her? Yeah,” she laughed. “It’s a little weird, isn’t it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our journey ends like this: Gwyneth was a doll. No, I mean she actually looked like a doll. A tiny, beautiful, beaming doll, and one who — with zero prompting — signed a copy of \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> with a Mother’s Day message for my mother, then both my name and hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (17)\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-400x462.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-768x886.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1440x1662.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1920x2216.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1180x1362.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-960x1108.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So,” I said to her from across the table, with what I can only assume was the voice of a sheepish giantess, willing myself to be something like a journalist and not a large, trembly child meeting Cinderella at Disneyland. “What do you do when it doesn’t all \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> easy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looked peeved for a moment, cocked her head to one side. For one, instantaneous flash of a second, I saw a crack in her golden human-shaped costume, a slight tinge of awareness of being mocked. And then it was gone, and she was beaming again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just take deep breaths,” she said, in a beautiful voice. “And keep putting one foot in front of the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I nodded. And then I did just that, Gwyneth. All the way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/24274/whats-really-behind-all-the-hate-gwyneth-paltrow-and-goop-get\">More about Emma’s Goopy day can be found in this episode of ‘The Cooler.’\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Let’s start with this: I am not here to hate bluntly on Gwyneth Paltrow. And a desire to do that is not, I swear to you, why I felt a subtle yet unmistakable gravitational pull toward the actress’s new San Francisco pop-up shop, \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/goop-mrkt/\">Goop MRKT\u003c/a> (apparently she got the memo about ditching vowels if you want to do good business in the Bay Area), when I learned she would be appearing there May 5 to sign her new cookbook and shower plebeians with her effervescent, organically produced glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gwyneth is an easy target. Too easy, one could say. In this \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-woman-attacked_us_57289b7ae4b0bc9cb0447aed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrifying political climate\u003c/a>, with our current levels of income inequality — while five hunger strikers endanger themselves in the hopes of raising awareness about police brutality against young men of color \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/04/30/equiptos-hunger-strike-the-importance-of-art-in-social-change/\">four blocks away from my house\u003c/a> — it is all too convenient to point a finger at the extremely wealthy thin white blonde actress lady shilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/dp/1455522716/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687682&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1455584215&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1VS4T5GV941V0EWNXQCW\">health-conscious cookbooks\u003c/a> and an organic skincare line as part of her \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/\">egregiously overpriced lifestyle brand\u003c/a> and say, “That right there, that’s a thing I know how to hate. That seems simple. Let’s just focus on that for today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hating on Gwyneth has, in fact, become such an\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2310405/Gwyneth-Paltrow-named-hated-celebrities-Hollywood-beats-Anne-Hathaway-Kristen-Stewart-poll.html\"> obvious national pastime\u003c/a> that when she was gruesomely killed off in the first 10 minutes of \u003cem>Contagion \u003c/em>a few years ago\u003cem>, \u003c/em>one had to wonder if Steven Soderbergh was enacting a bit of cinematic revenge porn for his audience’s collective benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Gwyneth looking not that pretty \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/gwyneth-paltrow-as-beth-emhoff-in-contagion.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gwyneth looking not that pretty in ‘Contagion.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which, in turn, brings up a slew of questions, such as: Is she in on the joke? Surely the most hated celebrity in America has an inkling of that status by now. On the other hand: Is a person whose online kitchenware store includes \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/copper-spoons\">$1200 spoons\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/apron-with-leather\">$200 apron\u003c/a> one must disassemble with a screwdriver in order to wash really a person who’s in touch with the rest of America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg\" alt=\"Paltrow-Vegetables1\" width=\"800\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-400x388.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-768x745.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Paltrow-Vegetables1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I’m not here to add on the hate-pile, you might ask, then why did I join a couple hundred Gwyneth fans on the street in downtown San Francisco yesterday, all for the privilege of getting an up-close-and-personal look at her line of children’s clothes, face washes, and frying pans, then wait in line for nearly 90 minutes to have her royal blondness sign a cookbook for my mother?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can say I was genuinely curious about the interior of San Francisco’s only \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/place/article/S-F-move-to-protect-interior-of-Frank-Lloyd-6834897.php\">Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building\u003c/a>, which is the “mrkt” from whence Gwyneth shall sell her Goop until May 22. And I can promise that I really tried to leave my preconceived notions behind — to consciously uncouple, if you will, from whatever biases I may have previously formed about the woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23876 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"goop-mrkt-details-left\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-800x569.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-400x284.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-768x546.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left-960x683.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/goop-mrkt-details-left.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official press photos from the goop MRKT website.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had questions, and I thought her devotees, these subjects of Gwyneth’s empire who had dutifully flocked here on a muggy, overcast Thursday morning, might answer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, I also had some time to kill. Gwyneth was due to sign books from 10:30 to noon; the doorman informed that me that the first people began lining up around 9am. By 10:30, when I arrived, the line stretched entirely down the length of Maiden Lane. Roughly 95 percent of these people were women; maybe 93 percent of them were white; 100 percent of them were beautiful. A special kind of beautiful. You know that specific kind of rich-people beautiful that involves perfect skin and shiny hair and flawless manicures and a general aura of effortlessness that somehow also communicates a great deal of effort and certainly a f*ck-ton of money? I was immediately aware of my chipped nail polish, of the stray cat hair on my jacket. I couldn’t tell if I hated everyone or wanted them to adopt me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What brings you here?” I asked about a dozen women, tossing my hair, trying my darnedest to act like I belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-02 at 10.26.36 PM\" width=\"475\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-06-02-at-10.26.36-PM-400x343.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve just been a fan of hers forever,” offered a woman with immaculate eyeliner. “I just think she’s really cool, and has a great sense of style. And I try to eat healthy, so her recipes are great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another told me she traveled for work frequently, and Gwyneth’s \u003ca href=\"http://goop.com/city-guides/city-guide/\">hotel and restaurant tips \u003c/a>were always right up her alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said. “What do you do for work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I work in marketing at Twitter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg\" alt=\"Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-800x1059.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-400x530.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-768x1017.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1440x1907.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1920x2542.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-1180x1563.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18-960x1271.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-18.jpg 1925w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who looks beautiful holding cans of sardines? Gwyneth Paltrow looks beautiful holding cans of sardines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another young woman who worked in PR revealed to me that this was not her first Goop experience this week: She had attended a Goop workout class at The Battery, San Francisco’s grand members-only club, the previous evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What kind of workout class?” I asked. “Was Gwyneth there, like, on the floor doing Pilates with you guys?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, no, she wasn’t there,” she clarified with a laugh, looking starry-eyed at the thought. “Just a Goop thing. They had us, like, running around on the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cool,” I said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"goop waterbottles for those goop workouts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-13-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goop waterbottles for those Goop workouts.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many attendees reported that they were in fact big fans of Gwyneth’s previous cookbooks, including \u003cem>My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness \u003c/em>and\u003cem> It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new book, out in time for Mother’s Day, is titled \u003cem>It’s All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook. \u003c/em>Its promotional copy, in case the title didn’t make this clear, emphasizes that these are Gwyneth’s favorite recipes for regular people like you and me — people with jobs, in other words, and without personal chefs, nor millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23880\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png\" alt=\"Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m.png 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/8943550_5-simple-and-healthy-breakfast-recipes-gwyneth_5a4d079a_m-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something that Gwyneth Paltrow totally eats on the regular hahahaha yeah right.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is filled, naturally, with photos of Gwyneth looking beautiful, wearing chunky knit sweaters at home or in nature with her children, in addition to photos of the beautiful meals she ostensibly prepares on weeknights when she is home from her imaginary regular-person job, and must feed her regular children without any help whatsoever. These spreads are interspersed with “easy” recipes — the very first in the book is for an “easy” acai bowl — plus stories about Gwyneth’s ostensible regular-person life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The persistent attempt to come off like a relatable human being results in some hilarious reaches, like the recipe for a beautiful, gourmet salad niçoise made with nine-minute eggs served on a fresh baguette, which Gwyneth suggests should really be enjoyed during a picnic with a bottle of rosé, but can also be wolfed down while sitting in one’s car waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice. (You can clearly envision the edit meetings: “That’s a thing people do, right?”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some actual excerpts from the book, selected via a process of opening it to random pages once I was home, writing this, eating cheese popcorn out of a bag that I bought at the liquor store across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cacio e pepe is one of my favorite simple pasta dishes, so when Thea and I started spiralizing vegetables like maniacs, we thought a zucchini noodle version might be nice. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you’re short on time, get someone at the meat counter to pound out your chicken for you and be sure to let the lemon slices get caramelized and sweet before adding the other ingredients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When working on a GOOP story with the L.A.-based company Moon Juice, we learned the easiest-ever method for making instant almond milk: simply blend good almond butter and water together. Duh — why didn’t we think of that?! Here we make a hot version with fresh ginger and a little sesame oil to add roundness. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duh!! Anyway, the interior of the building was truly beautiful. With a nod from the doorman, I passed the rubicon (goopicon? sorry) to see beautiful assistants swiping credit cards through iPads as customers bought books for Gwyneth to sign; the line to meet her packed the spiral ramp to the second floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23879\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (9)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-9-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ground floor below, the Goop beauty and skincare line occupied one bright-white corner, while another, set up to look like an expensive but also regular-person living room, featured bookshelves full of architecture tomes and travel guides; $200 throw pillows; and black and white photographs lining each wall. (“She curated those herself,” I heard one impressed woman murmur to another, as Rihanna extolled the virtues of \u003cem>werk werk werk werk werk\u003c/em> over a PA.) A white old-timey bicycle was perched in another corner; I couldn’t tell if it was for sale or if perhaps Gwyneth had pedaled it here herself while carrying a basket overflowing with fresh vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23882\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (12)\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-12-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up the walkway, the line snaked past Goop’s various houseware and clothing lines — workout gear, children’s items, these weird things that were hanging on the wall and I still don’t know what they are after looking them up but they cost \u003cem>$300 each\u003c/em>. Oh wait, the tag says they’re “wall tassels.” That clears it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (22)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-22-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You get the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet: As I made my way through the vortex, inching closer to the holy grail — Gwyneth had been set up for the book-signing behind a hilariously wide butcher-block table, accessorized with Goop dish sets and cast iron pans for that “I’m totally actually in Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen!” feeling — I felt some air leaking slowly from my dark balloon of repulsion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it was the fact that every single beautiful human I’d interacted with for the past hour and a half had been wonderfully kind and friendly. Then there was the fact that every person walking away from the table after meeting her looked like they could die happy, on the spot. Then, from 10 feet away, I could see Gwyneth’s own smile as she chatted up each beautiful human who’d come out to see her, and — in my limited experience with encountering celebrities in the flesh — it was among the most warm, lifelike, genuine smiles I’d seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg\" alt=\"32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1\" width=\"634\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1.jpg 634w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-400x383.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/32A327B600000578-0-image-a-4_1459335038932-1-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe it was more like: Over the course of 90 minutes, I’d made peace with my incredulity. Because you know what? It’s fine to be obscenely wealthy. It’s fine that she was born into a Hollywood family, and has therefore been wealthy, and privileged, and ensconced in a bubble with people just like her, for literally her entire life. It’s even fine that she’s selling this \u003ca href=\"http://shop.goop.com/collections/kitchen-tabletop/products/three-dip-board\">slab of wood you’re supposed to pay $395 to put hummus on\u003c/a>. (I mean it’s crazy, but it’s fine.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that is not why people hate her. Extreme wealth in and of itself is not grounds for ridicule in this country. It’s your attitude about it — your understanding of where you fit into the grand scheme of things — that can get you in trouble. The Kardashians are mocked for many things, but they have never pretended they cook their own meals. George Clooney owns a f*cking villa in Italy; he does not, however, have a weekly newsletter with suggestions for other people about how to decorate their Italian villas. (That I know of. Someone please sign me up immediately if I’m wrong.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_23896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23896\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg\" alt='Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has \"unexpected guests\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0233-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a seafood-and-sherry dish one is supposed to be able to make at the last minute if one has “unexpected guests.”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whether it’s complete lack of self-awareness or calculated business strategy or both, the idea of being so disconnected from reality that you see “regular person with a 9-to-5 and kids to feed” as a charming brand to try on is staggering; it’s homemaker fetishization of the most insidious degree. The fact that it’s difficult for busy people with little money to feed their children nutritious food is a source of real pain for real humans every day, not to mention the root of a massive national health crisis, and for Gwyneth Paltrow — who has publicly proved that she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/17/a-hungry-gwyneth-paltrow-fails-the-food-stamp-challenge-four-days-in/\">woefully incapable of eating on a budget for more than four days\u003c/a> — to suggest that she can relate to this problem, let alone has solutions to it, is patently insulting. \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> is a book for people who can afford to not cook but want to feel like they’re the kind of people who do anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The central conceit, that Gwyneth is a regular person in any way, is condescending and gross. It’s tacky. And the level of narcissism and near-sightedness it reveals implies a kind of existence \u003cem>I don’t actually think I would ever want.\u003c/em> I work for a public radio station, Gwyneth. I live in the most expensive city in America, one whose future is alarmingly uncertain. I’m hanging on by a thread, and relatively speaking I’m incredibly lucky: I walked by approximately 30 homeless people in and around BART stations just to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a $165 keychain by Stella McCartney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0229\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/IMG_0229-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s aspirational, for sure,” the girl behind me in line said thoughtfully, of her affinity for Gwyn’s cookbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right,” I said. “Like if you’re eating the same dinner she’s eating, you might — ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of become her? Yeah,” she laughed. “It’s a little weird, isn’t it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our journey ends like this: Gwyneth was a doll. No, I mean she actually looked like a doll. A tiny, beautiful, beaming doll, and one who — with zero prompting — signed a copy of \u003cem>It’s All Easy\u003c/em> with a Mother’s Day message for my mother, then both my name and hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23890\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (17)\" width=\"800\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-800x923.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-400x462.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-768x886.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1440x1662.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1920x2216.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-1180x1362.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17-960x1108.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/05/FullSizeRender-17.jpg 1948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So,” I said to her from across the table, with what I can only assume was the voice of a sheepish giantess, willing myself to be something like a journalist and not a large, trembly child meeting Cinderella at Disneyland. “What do you do when it doesn’t all \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> easy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looked peeved for a moment, cocked her head to one side. For one, instantaneous flash of a second, I saw a crack in her golden human-shaped costume, a slight tinge of awareness of being mocked. And then it was gone, and she was beaming again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just take deep breaths,” she said, in a beautiful voice. “And keep putting one foot in front of the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I nodded. And then I did just that, Gwyneth. All the way home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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