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DeLillo will be in conversation with Rachel Kushner, whose novel \u003cem>The Flamethrowers\u003c/em> received \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/175351776/racing-from-art-to-revolution-and-back-again-in-the-flamethrowers\">much attention\u003c/a> and accolades (and comparisons to DeLillo) upon its release in 2013. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityarts.net/event/don-delillo/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, May 10: MariNaomi at The Booksmith, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11533784\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/index.png\" alt=\"index\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\">Turning Japanese\u003c/em>, the latest graphic memoir from \u003ca href=\"http://marinaomi.com/\">MariNaomi\u003c/a>, chronicles her experiences working at illegal hostess bars in San Jose and Tokyo. Currently living in Southern California, MariNomi grew up in Mill Valley, and later moved to San Jose where she began working, at 22, at a hostess bar for Japanese expats. The experience sparked a desire to learn Japanese and connect with her neglected Japanese roots. As an accomplished author, illustrator, and creator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and LGBTQ Cartoonists Database, MariNaomi is a force to be reckoned with. \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/marinaomi-turning-japanese\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Friday, May 13: Fresh and Best New Poets Reading at Diesel A Bookstore, Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11533788\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/13760.jpg\" alt=\"13760\" width=\"258\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/13760.jpg 602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/13760-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\">Three poets head up the latest Fresh and Best reading series edition at Diesel. \u003cstrong>Julien Poirer’\u003c/strong>s new collection of poetry \u003cem>Out of Print\u003c/em> is available through City Lights. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Exciting news! MariNaomi is back with another awesome graphic memoir. Plus, if \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/23/beyonces-lemonade-isnt-the-first-time-shes-used-divorce-to-play-with-our-emotions/\">Bey’s \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has you \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/26/meet-warsan-shire-the-poet-whose-words-are-all-over-beyonces-lemonade/\">hungering for poetry\u003c/a>, you’re in luck. May is here, and poetry has sprung from every sidewalk — or so it seems with all of the poets hitting the mic this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, May 4: ‘Breaking Ground: Black British Writers’ at Green Apple Books on the Park, SF. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"https://bevaristo.com/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11533775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/KAREN8-1024x682-e1461869179543.jpg\" alt=\"KAREN8-1024x682\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen McCarthy Woolf is part of the ‘Breaking Ground’ reading tour.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bevaristo.com/\">Bernardine Evaristo’s\u003c/a> latest novel tells the story of a 74-year-old gay Caribbean London man who has lived in the closet his entire life\u003ca href=\"http://www.colingrant.info/\">. Colin Grant\u003c/a> is the author of \u003cem>Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa\u003c/em>, as well as a historian and BBC radio producer. \u003ca href=\"http://www.diranadebayo.com/index.php?page=about\">Diran Adebayo\u003c/a> is an award-winning novelist and cultural critic, and \u003ca href=\"http://mccarthywoolf.com/about/\">Karen McCarthy Woolf\u003c/a> is known for \u003cem>An Aviary of Small Birds\u003c/em>, a poetry collection lauded as “beautiful, painful, and pitch-perfect” by critics. These are just some of the writers in the spotlight during the \u003cem>Breaking Ground\u003c/em> tour, which was developed to “highlight the diversity of Black British writing,” and writers who’ve had little access to American readers and audiences. \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-breaking-ground-black-british-writers\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thursday, May 5: Legacy of Poetry Day at Hammer Theater Center, San Jose \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11533779\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 347px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11533779\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/cee425_4be86913d14543d6a3ced3b7e14b5709.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera \" width=\"347\" height=\"184\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“do you know where that is i want to sing / so you can hear me and maybe you can tell me / where to go so you can hear me and just maybe you can tell me where to go,” writes Juan Felipe Herrera, United States Poet Laureate, in his City Lights poetry collection \u003cem>Notes on the Assemblage\u003c/em>. To answer Herrera’s question, one can go to San Jose to hear the legendary poet give a keynote address, following readings by other poet laureates: Al Young (California Poet Laureate Emeritus), Caroline Goodwin (San Mateo County Poet Laureate), Alejandro Murgia (San Francisco Poet Laureate), Amanda Williamsen (Cupertino Poet Laureate) and more. Celebrate Cinco De Mayo by nourishing the mind and heart. \u003ca href=\"http://legacyofpoetryday.wix.com/hammer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Locally, there are 35 bookstores participating, from San Jose to Petaluma. You can see for yourself with this \u003ca href=\"http://indiemap.bookweb.org/\">handy map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More than retail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s independent bookstore is more than a retail outlet: it’s a community center. “It’s definitely a community gathering place,” says Jean Forstner, who heads \u003ca href=\"http://www.keplers.com/PAL\">Peninsula Arts and Letters\u003c/a>, the non-profit sister organization to \u003ca href=\"http://www.keplers.com/event/independent-bookstore-day\">Kepler’s Books\u003c/a> in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peninsula Arts and Letters produces Kepler’s events as well as events outside the store, including high profile author readings from people like Dave Barry, Mary Roach and Louise Erdich, as well as a steady stream of kids’ events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bookstore Day will be no exception. “We know where we live, and we know who loves to be here on Saturday mornings, and that’s families with kids,” Forstner says. “We’re going to have a big banner that kids can color. Kids can make book covers. We’re going to show kids how to make these big puffy paper things. We’re celebrating paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fun for all\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11536330 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/GaimanBook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the grown-ups, there will be lightening round literary trivia, cookies from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/marthaspastries/\">Martha’s Pastry Shoppe\u003c/a>, strawberry lemonade – and items for sale that must be purchased in-person at a participating bookstore on Bookstore Day. Highlights include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003cstrong>Neil Gaiman coloring book\u003c/strong> featuring 20 pieces of black-and-white art by Chris Riddell.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A\u003cstrong> stuffed Curious George\u003c/strong> wearing a t-shirt that says, “READ WITH ME.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Anthony Bourdain’s Perfect Burger Print\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, an illustrated guide signed by him.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ann Patchett’s booklet of essays, \u003cstrong>\u003cem>A $6 Story: The Care and Feeding of an Independent Bookstore\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, signed by her.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/04/26/hear-the-official-rad-american-woman-a-z-anthem/\">X is for… vinyl record\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, companion to Kate Schatz’s book \u003cem>Rad American Women A-Z. \u003c/em>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Hear the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201508201000\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> interview with author Kate Schatz: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220150038″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A resilient scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent bookstores are pretty thin on the ground these days. A mass die-off followed the advent of the Internet, and then there was the advent of Amazon.com. “We lost some real institutions in the Bay Area in the 1990s and 2000s,” Schoech says. But the ones that have survived, she says, are doing well. “The doom-and gloom narrative is sort of old news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true of San Francisco, which continues to serve as a hub for literary life on the West Coast with shops like \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/\">Booksmith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/\">City Lights\u003c/a>, and of course, \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/\">Green Apple\u003c/a>. All are participating in Bookstore Day, along with the independent local chain \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksinc.net/\">Books, Inc\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as you travel south of San Francisco, independents are thinner on the ground. Forstner says it’s not uncommon to encounter book lovers who have crossed the San Francisco Bay from Fremont to attend an event at Kepler’s. “There’s nothing in Fremont,” Forstner says. “We hear it all the time from that community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Silicon Valley book lovers between San Carlos and Santa Cruz can visit these participating book stores:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thereadingbug.com/\">The Reading Bug\u003c/a> in San Carlos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hicklebees.com/event/independent-bookstore-day\">Hicklebee’s Books\u003c/a> in San Jose\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://villagehouseofbooks.com/2016/04/18/independent-bookstore-day-is-coming/\">Village House of Books\u003c/a> in Los Gatos\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://mybooksmart.com/joomla/\">BookSmart\u003c/a> in Morgan Hill\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/\">Bookshop Santa Cruz\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.logosbooksrecords.com/\">Logos Books and Records\u003c/a> in Santa Cruz\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://slugstore.ucsc.edu/\">Bay Tree Bookstore\u003c/a> at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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But while testosterone and hyped-up masculinity are part and parcel of the story, Abramovich also weaves in fascinating moments from Oakland’s history both in the distant and recent past. Huey Newton,\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chauncey-Bailey-s-killer-s-sentencing-delayed-2355532.php\"> Your Black Muslim Bakery and the trial of Devaughndre Broussard, \u003c/a>urban revitalization’s devastating impact on black, working-class neighborhoods, Spanish ranchos, hyphy sideshows and motorcycle gangs are just a few of the seemingly disparate threads that make up this cohesive, engaging story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11518418 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/bullies.jpg\" alt=\"bullies\" width=\"184\" height=\"275\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abramovich is excellent at the historical piece. He breaks out of the narrative centered on his unlikely friendship with Trevor to analyze the influence of media — \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine photographs and the Marlon Brando movie \u003cem>The Wild One\u003c/em> — on the development of “outlaw” motorcycle gangs in the 1950s. Plus, he explores thoughtfully the relationship between WWII and labor struggles to motorcycle gangs, and how they became a source of community and brotherhood for returning soldiers who missed the fraternity and adrenaline of war. He writes about the deep impact of urban renewal initiatives on the West Oakland landscape; the way that urban renewal, in a way, in responsible for the development of areas like Ghost Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what is the story exactly? It starts when Abramovich, a writer living in New York, stumbles across recent information about a former bully on the internet. Trevor Latham is his name. Abramovich had gone to school with Latham in Long Island, and has never been able to shake memories of being beaten up by Latham before school, after school, during school. There had been other bullies, but Trevor was the one he remembered. He discovers that Trevor lives in California, Oakland specifically, and is the president and founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayrats.com/\">East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club\u003c/a>. Abramovich pitches a story to \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> about the East Bay Rats and this as-yet-unrealized meeting with his former bully, the pitch is accepted, and Abramovich heads out to California. He’s been emailing with Trevor, and they are finally scheduled to meet at the Ruby Room in downtown Oakland, where his former nemesis works as a bouncer and general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And thus begins a strange and sometimes uneasy friendship — and the birth of a book. A few years later, long after the \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> feature on the East Bay Rats has been published, Abramovich returns to Oakland (with his girlfriend, this time) where they settle for the next four years. During that time, Abramovich spends a great deal of time with the Rats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The Rats were hard to pin down, gather up, or control for any length of time. They wore black leather, broke people’s bones. They had mixed feelings about the cameras. And they’d formed in response to conditions — economic collapse, real devastation wrought by the crack epidemic — that did not fold themselves neatly into the narrative arcs of half-hour reality shows.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11518421\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/rides.jpg\" alt=\"rides\" width=\"539\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/rides.jpg 539w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/rides-400x168.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rats practice a systemic and systematized violence. They host \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZdEkiz7Vc\">weekend fights\u003c/a> with themes like “Jews vs. Gentiles.” Many of the Rats came from broken homes and prison stints. More than a few are veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“For the most part I liked them and found them easy to get along with. But, as I spent more time with them, I also found that the Rats’ conversations could take sudden turns towards the freakish, or flat-out insane. With the Rats, a certain lack of self-consciousness, regarding violence, could be as disturbing as violence itself.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jason, “the most well-adjusted Rat” with a steady job and a mortgage, turns out to have a past as a Nazi skinhead. Jason confesses to Abramovich that he avoided joining the Rats for a long time. He didn’t want to go back to “spending all day, every day worrying about being angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s such an emotional drain; you can’t live an adult life and be like that. When your parents are as batty as mine were, the craziest things become normal. You don’t know any better. And then, one day, you’re not a kid anymore. You realize things could have been different. You know that you can’t go around exploding all the time and also be happy.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The violent tendencies in \u003cem>Bullies\u003c/em>, and a particularly gnarly scene where a street person is attacked by Rats and purposefully run over with a motorcycle as Abramovich watches in a semi-frozen state, lead to thoughts on the origins of such violence. How close we all are to inflicting violence on others, especially men enmeshed in cycles of anger, masculinity, and dangerous, enabling fraternity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care about the politics,” Trevor tells Abramovich after he’s become security detail for the Occupy Oakland camp outside of City Hall. “I’m only here for the violence.” It’s a statement that might be spoken by so many men (and women), in Oakland, in California, in the United States, and across the world in this messy, traumatized, bloody world.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Know your farmer, know your food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it sounds like another snappy bumper-sticker slogan. (In fact, the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinorganic.org/blog/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Organic\u003c/a> distributed green stickers emblazoned with this phrase for years.) Simple as it sounds, it's not always an easy feat, but it's a concept that's at the heart of a current food-world movement towards greater transparency and accountability. More and more, we want to know who is growing our food, and how. Once it was enough to know that head of lettuce was organic; now, buyers' interests can touch on every aspect of sustainability, from transport miles to farmworkers' wages and living conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108777\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-400x514.jpg\" alt=\"Farmsteads of the California Coast\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108777\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-400x514.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-800x1027.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-768x986.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-1440x1849.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-1180x1515.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-960x1233.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmsteads of the California Coast by Sarah Henry. \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, we're lucky to live where nearly anything can grow, in a climate mild enough to support year-round productivity. As densely populated as this slice of California can feel, we're nonetheless at the heart of an agriculturally famous region. Drive north or south for less than a hour and you can find unique small farms, dairies, ranches, orchards, and more, all making and selling their products on site. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These farmstead operations, typically relying on direct customer sales through roadside farm stands and CSAs, are the subject of local writer Sarah Henry's new book, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0990537072/kqedorg-20\">Farmsteads of the California Coast\u003c/a>. In it, she explores the stories of a dozen operations in coastal locations from Mendocino to Santa Barbara county. The Australian-born Henry now lives in the East Bay, where she's written for the San Francisco Chronicle, AFAR, Edible East Bay, Edible San Francisco, and Edible Marin and Wine Country. (She's also been a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/sarahhenry/\">contributor\u003c/a> to Bay Area Bites.) More than half of the operations profiled in the book are a scenic drive from San Francisco, from the Hog Island Oyster Company in Marshall and Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas to Pie Ranch and Swanton Berry Farm in Pescadero. While looking to cover a diversity of places and products, Henry did choose farms by geographical proximity, so readers could visit two or three places mentioned on a single visit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--400x571.jpg\" alt=\"Author Sarah Henry\" width=\"400\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108779\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--400x571.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--800x1143.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--768x1097.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--1440x2057.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--1180x1685.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--960x1371.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Sarah Henry \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you've read the produce signs at Bi-Rite Market, or cruised the cheese display at Rainbow Grocery, you'll recognize the names of the farms and dairies in this book. And if you've scrolled through the purveyors listed on many a Bay Area restaurant menu, you'll definitely feel like you're meeting some old friends, or finally putting faces on familiar names, thanks to Berkeley photographer Erin Scott's appealing photographs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Bob Cannard, the king of weeds, whose vibrant lettuces are a favorite of Alice Waters and a staple on the menu at Chez Panisse. Turn a page and here are the sweet goats of Harley Farm, whose milk is turned into flower-decked rounds of fresh goat cheese, almost too pretty to eat. Here's Jim Cochran of Swanton Berry Farm, smiling in a plaid shirt as red as his strawberries, the first man to grow organic strawberries commercially in California, then the first to sign a contract with the United Farm Workers, giving his pickers union benefits like health insurance and fair wages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Cochran, have been farming for decades, transitioning over the years from conventional to organic growing methods. Others, like Andrew Zlot of Double 8 Dairy, had lucrative careers elsewhere, finding their way to animal husbandry or cheesemaking later in life. Second generation farmers Mickey Murch (Gospel Flat Farm) and Karen Bates (The Apple Farm) took over and reshaped the farming operations their parents had started. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166.jpg\" alt=\"The Apple Farm\" width=\"800\" height=\"1021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166-400x511.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166-768x980.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Apple Farm \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a longtime journalist, Henry knows how to tell a story, and while she keeps the emphasis positive, she does touch, albeit lightly, on some of the challenges of small-scale farming and rural living--the isolation, the lack of privacy in small-town life, the narrow profit margins and the unrelenting day-in-day-out-ness of raising animals and tending the land. Each chapter also tries to address a larger issue of sustainability, whether it's the ocean and bay stewardship of the oyster farmers at Hog Island, or the layered agriculture practiced by Good Land Organics, where avocado trees shade coffee plants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Hog Island Oyster Company\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108778\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-400x539.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-800x1077.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-768x1034.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-1440x1939.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-1180x1589.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_hogislandfinaltiffs-2637-1920-960x1293.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hog Island Oyster Company \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Henry was familiar with many of the farmers before she began the book, going to the farms, and walking the land with those responsible for it, was eye-opening. \"I learned something from each of them--a farming practice, a sacrifice they'd had to make to keep going, a time they almost didn't make it,\" she told Bay Area Bites. \"Every story came with some kind of caveat,\" the biggest, of course, being California's drastic (and certainly not yet erased) drought, along with the pressure of ongoing, escalating climate change. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this is an aspirational book, and no matter what the farmers say, Scott's photographs make life on a small farm look blissfully, deliciously idyllic, so much so that the cover really should come with a warning label: Farm Life More Difficult Than It May Appear. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those of us who just want to visit the farming life, Farmsteads is a prettily dirt-stained reminder of the undeniable beauty of our slice of the north-central California coast, and a tribute to the dedication of those who make it grow. \"I hope the book will give people a deeper understanding of what goes into growing our food. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Know your farmer, know your food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it sounds like another snappy bumper-sticker slogan. (In fact, the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinorganic.org/blog/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Organic\u003c/a> distributed green stickers emblazoned with this phrase for years.) Simple as it sounds, it's not always an easy feat, but it's a concept that's at the heart of a current food-world movement towards greater transparency and accountability. More and more, we want to know who is growing our food, and how. Once it was enough to know that head of lettuce was organic; now, buyers' interests can touch on every aspect of sustainability, from transport miles to farmworkers' wages and living conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108777\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-400x514.jpg\" alt=\"Farmsteads of the California Coast\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108777\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-400x514.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-800x1027.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-768x986.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-1440x1849.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-1180x1515.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/Cover-with-Alice-Waters-quote-on-front1920-960x1233.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmsteads of the California Coast by Sarah Henry. \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, we're lucky to live where nearly anything can grow, in a climate mild enough to support year-round productivity. As densely populated as this slice of California can feel, we're nonetheless at the heart of an agriculturally famous region. Drive north or south for less than a hour and you can find unique small farms, dairies, ranches, orchards, and more, all making and selling their products on site. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These farmstead operations, typically relying on direct customer sales through roadside farm stands and CSAs, are the subject of local writer Sarah Henry's new book, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0990537072/kqedorg-20\">Farmsteads of the California Coast\u003c/a>. In it, she explores the stories of a dozen operations in coastal locations from Mendocino to Santa Barbara county. The Australian-born Henry now lives in the East Bay, where she's written for the San Francisco Chronicle, AFAR, Edible East Bay, Edible San Francisco, and Edible Marin and Wine Country. (She's also been a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/sarahhenry/\">contributor\u003c/a> to Bay Area Bites.) More than half of the operations profiled in the book are a scenic drive from San Francisco, from the Hog Island Oyster Company in Marshall and Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas to Pie Ranch and Swanton Berry Farm in Pescadero. While looking to cover a diversity of places and products, Henry did choose farms by geographical proximity, so readers could visit two or three places mentioned on a single visit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108779\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--400x571.jpg\" alt=\"Author Sarah Henry\" width=\"400\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108779\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--400x571.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--800x1143.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--768x1097.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--1440x2057.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--1180x1685.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/sarahheadshot1920--960x1371.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Sarah Henry \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you've read the produce signs at Bi-Rite Market, or cruised the cheese display at Rainbow Grocery, you'll recognize the names of the farms and dairies in this book. And if you've scrolled through the purveyors listed on many a Bay Area restaurant menu, you'll definitely feel like you're meeting some old friends, or finally putting faces on familiar names, thanks to Berkeley photographer Erin Scott's appealing photographs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Bob Cannard, the king of weeds, whose vibrant lettuces are a favorite of Alice Waters and a staple on the menu at Chez Panisse. Turn a page and here are the sweet goats of Harley Farm, whose milk is turned into flower-decked rounds of fresh goat cheese, almost too pretty to eat. Here's Jim Cochran of Swanton Berry Farm, smiling in a plaid shirt as red as his strawberries, the first man to grow organic strawberries commercially in California, then the first to sign a contract with the United Farm Workers, giving his pickers union benefits like health insurance and fair wages. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Cochran, have been farming for decades, transitioning over the years from conventional to organic growing methods. Others, like Andrew Zlot of Double 8 Dairy, had lucrative careers elsewhere, finding their way to animal husbandry or cheesemaking later in life. Second generation farmers Mickey Murch (Gospel Flat Farm) and Karen Bates (The Apple Farm) took over and reshaped the farming operations their parents had started. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166.jpg\" alt=\"The Apple Farm\" width=\"800\" height=\"1021\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108780\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166-400x511.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/04/erinscott_applefarm-treewithoutsticks-2166-768x980.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Apple Farm \u003ccite>(Erin Scott)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a longtime journalist, Henry knows how to tell a story, and while she keeps the emphasis positive, she does touch, albeit lightly, on some of the challenges of small-scale farming and rural living--the isolation, the lack of privacy in small-town life, the narrow profit margins and the unrelenting day-in-day-out-ness of raising animals and tending the land. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday, April 19: Paolo Bacigalupi at Pegasus Books, Berkeley \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11494545\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/9780385352871_custom-b9151d61a5c6869bf30190fa56d69a11c7c8bcd9-s400-c85.jpg\" alt=\"9780385352871_custom-b9151d61a5c6869bf30190fa56d69a11c7c8bcd9-s400-c85\" width=\"176\" height=\"262\">Climate change brings about new, terrifying prospects nearly every day. Like the best writers of dystopia before him, Paolo Bacigalupi takes one possible future reality — massive and severe drought — and runs with it. \u003cem>The Water Knife\u003c/em>, out in paperback this month, takes place in the American Southwest where a “Big Daddy drought” has turned Arizona into the new dust bowl. As to be expected, the climate apocalypse \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/05/28/408295800/the-water-knife-cuts-deep\">leads\u003c/a> to mass migrations, major government corruption, and a widening gap between the rich and poor. Read the headlines in today’s newspaper and you’ll see that, without a doubt, Bacigalupi, a Nebula-winner and National Book Awards finalist, is toying with concepts that are only too possible. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/paolo-bacigalupi-water-knife\">Details here \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Saturday, April 23: The Write of Way Festival at the San Francisco Art Institute, SF \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11494547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Write-of-Way-logo-e1460683242803.png\" alt=\"Write of Way logo\" width=\"259\" height=\"259\">What’s more fun than a rad book festival on a Saturday afternoon? Plus, it’s always exciting to welcome a new one to the bunch. The first annual Write of Way Festival, hosted by the San Francisco Art Institute, promises to “offer more opportunities for the Bay Area literary community to assemble, network.” The line-up of publishers and authors alone is enough to prove that. Participating literary organizations include 826 Valencia, Bay Area, Generations, Bazaar Writers Salon, BeastCrawl, ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?, Eleven Eleven, The Escapery: Your Writing Unschool, Foglifter Press, Fourteen Hills, The God Particle, Liminal, Lit Camp, Lyrics & Dirges, Manic D Press, Milvia Street, Mixed Race Writers, Nomadic Press, Pandemonium Press, Passages on the Lake, Queer Rebels, Red Light Lit, San Francisco Creative Writing Institute, San Francisco Writers Grotto, Santa Clara Review, Studio 18: Spoken Word, Transit Books, Untitled Magazine and VelRo. Along with a bazaar, where publishers will sell their wares, scheduled readings will be held in multiple locations, along with collaborative writing workshops. Best of all, it’s free! \u003ca href=\"https://writeofwayfestival.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sunday, April 24: Esme Weijun Wang and Ranbir Singh at Diesel Bookstore, Oakland \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11494646\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/51DLkHYZyLL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"51DLkHYZyLL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"228\" height=\"346\">The Border of Paradise\u003c/em>, the new novel from San Francisco-based journalist and essayist Esme Weijun Wang, is an ambitious multigenerational novel, the kind of book you can sink your teeth into. It’s loaded with travel, affairs, family secrets, and a “beautiful, sharp-tongued madam,” which is pretty much always a good thing. On a similar tip, Ranbir Sing Sidhu’s debut novel \u003cem>Deep Singh Blue\u003c/em> tells the story of an Indian family that’s trying to gain a foothold in their adopted United States, a journey marked by tragedy and bad decisions. Both novels are ambitious stabs at a truly challenging art form. No shortcuts here, just good solid writing about flawed humans and the messes they get into. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/esm%C3%A9-weijun-wang-and-ranbir-singh-sidhu-discuss-and-sign-border-paradise-and-deep-singh-blue\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wednesday, April 27: Chita Banerjee Divakaruni at Books Inc., Mountain View \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11494669\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/before-we-visit-the-goddess-9781476792002_hr-e1460683313983.jpg\" alt=\"before-we-visit-the-goddess-9781476792002_hr\" width=\"201\" height=\"299\">Chita Banerjee has already received a fair share of praise. Her most recent novel, \u003cem>Oleander Girl\u003c/em>, was an Oprah’s Book Club recommendation and received excellent reviews in the Wall Street Journal and Booklist. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of the largest map collections in the country is about to open at Stanford. \u003ca href=\"http://rumseymapcenter.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The David Rumsey Map Center \u003c/a>is not just big in size, with more than 150,000 items, including rare first editions. It’s also accessible world-wide because many of the maps have been digitized; more than 67,000 items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired real estate developer David Rumsey has been obsessed with maps since he was a small boy, and he’s been collecting for more than three decades. “I like modern maps, I like old maps,” Rumsey says. “I just find them fascinating. They’re art. They’re science. They’re history. All of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey has donated his entire collection to Stanford. It includes atlases, wall maps, globes, maritime charts, and even children’s maps made for school assignments. Highlights include a 19th century Jain cosmological diagram hand-painted on cloth, a leather-bound book considered to be the first true world atlas, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/23BAHaS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatrum Orbis Terrarum\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>(1570),\u003c/em> and a map from the first published edition of \u003cem>Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Account of the Expedition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496990\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-800x374.jpg\" alt=\"A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America From the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean (1814). The map was copied by Samuel Lewis from William Clark's original drawing, and was engraved by Samuel Harrison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-800x374.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-400x187.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-768x359.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-1180x552.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-960x449.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track, Across the Western Portion of North America From the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean (1814). The map was copied by Samuel Lewis from William Clark’s original drawing, and was engraved by Samuel Harrison. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The David Rumsey Map Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other map collections are represented at the center, including Glen McLaughlin’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California as an Island\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which tells the story of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/01/when-california-was-an-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-cherished misconception\u003c/a> about California held by European map makers when the New World was still largely\u003cem> terra incognita \u003c/em>to them\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey says he picked Stanford over other potential libraries because he didn’t want his maps locked away in dusty archives.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“In the past, these kinds of collections were more about preservation, which is good, very admirable,” Rumsey says. “But we would like to change that paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital revolution makes collections more accessible \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of major map repositories have signed onto what’s known as the \u003ca href=\"http://iiif.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Image Interoperability Framework\u003c/a>. It’s a system that enables participating institutions to share their collections using compatible software to deliver high resolution images to anyone who asks. As a result of this development, curators everywhere can more easily put together exhibitions without having to physically bring artifacts to their museums. “It doesn’t matter where the actual image is,” says G. Salim Mohammed, the curator who heads the David Rumsey Map Center. “It could be in Europe. It could be in Africa. It could be anywhere there is Internet access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to curators, the system stands to benefit scholars, school children, environmentalists, artists, and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maps in physical form are beautiful, but they’re hard to work with,” says Rumsey. “In digital form, they’re light as a feather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That Said, You Really Should Visit Stanford\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why go to Green Library, the physical building where the Center is located? For one thing, you’ll want to see the inaugural exhibition, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/david-rumsey-map-collection/feature/a-universe-of-maps-opening-the-david-rumsey-map-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Universe of Maps\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in the Peterson Gallery on the library’s second floor. Massive printouts of the digitized maps from the collection are on the walls, including in the rotunda and in the stairwells. They’re even etched onto the glass doors at the entrance of the center. The sharpness of the detail is stunning. It may take you an hour to make your way into the center itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there, two floor-to-ceiling computer screens immediately capture your attention. One is a 12 x 7′ touch screen, for those big and small who’ve learned to relate to visual images through an iPad. The other screen is 16 x 9′. “These are basically screen savers that we commissioned from \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stamen Design\u003c/a> in San Francisco,” Rumsey jokes, just before he shows what you can do with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496992\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-750x600.jpg\" alt=\"Plan de Turgota map of Paris (1739). 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This copy was printed from the original plates in approximately 1860. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The David Rumsey Map Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not that you can’t zoom in and out, cross fade between maps, and do side-by-side comparisons on your laptop at home. But on a giant screen, you can zoom in to see incredible detail that often goes completely unnoticed when you’re looking at a map as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey pulls up \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~287244~90059510:Composite--Paris--Plan-de-Turgot?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No?&qvq=q:paris;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=7605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Plan de Turgot\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a map of Paris from 1739. “It’s 20 sheets in a book, but we knitted them altogether into one gigantic image,” Rumsey says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the largest map collections in the country is about to open at Stanford. \u003ca href=\"http://rumseymapcenter.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The David Rumsey Map Center \u003c/a>is not just big in size, with more than 150,000 items, including rare first editions. It’s also accessible world-wide because many of the maps have been digitized; more than 67,000 items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired real estate developer David Rumsey has been obsessed with maps since he was a small boy, and he’s been collecting for more than three decades. “I like modern maps, I like old maps,” Rumsey says. “I just find them fascinating. They’re art. They’re science. They’re history. All of those things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey has donated his entire collection to Stanford. It includes atlases, wall maps, globes, maritime charts, and even children’s maps made for school assignments. Highlights include a 19th century Jain cosmological diagram hand-painted on cloth, a leather-bound book considered to be the first true world atlas, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/23BAHaS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatrum Orbis Terrarum\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>(1570),\u003c/em> and a map from the first published edition of \u003cem>Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Account of the Expedition\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496990\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-800x374.jpg\" alt=\"A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America From the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean (1814). The map was copied by Samuel Lewis from William Clark's original drawing, and was engraved by Samuel Harrison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-800x374.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-400x187.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-768x359.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-1180x552.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19167_br999hw44402F3493001-qut-960x449.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track, Across the Western Portion of North America From the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean (1814). The map was copied by Samuel Lewis from William Clark’s original drawing, and was engraved by Samuel Harrison. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The David Rumsey Map Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other map collections are represented at the center, including Glen McLaughlin’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/california-as-an-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California as an Island\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which tells the story of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/01/when-california-was-an-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-cherished misconception\u003c/a> about California held by European map makers when the New World was still largely\u003cem> terra incognita \u003c/em>to them\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey says he picked Stanford over other potential libraries because he didn’t want his maps locked away in dusty archives.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“In the past, these kinds of collections were more about preservation, which is good, very admirable,” Rumsey says. “But we would like to change that paradigm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital revolution makes collections more accessible \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of major map repositories have signed onto what’s known as the \u003ca href=\"http://iiif.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Image Interoperability Framework\u003c/a>. It’s a system that enables participating institutions to share their collections using compatible software to deliver high resolution images to anyone who asks. As a result of this development, curators everywhere can more easily put together exhibitions without having to physically bring artifacts to their museums. “It doesn’t matter where the actual image is,” says G. Salim Mohammed, the curator who heads the David Rumsey Map Center. “It could be in Europe. It could be in Africa. It could be anywhere there is Internet access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to curators, the system stands to benefit scholars, school children, environmentalists, artists, and other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maps in physical form are beautiful, but they’re hard to work with,” says Rumsey. “In digital form, they’re light as a feather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That Said, You Really Should Visit Stanford\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why go to Green Library, the physical building where the Center is located? For one thing, you’ll want to see the inaugural exhibition, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/david-rumsey-map-collection/feature/a-universe-of-maps-opening-the-david-rumsey-map-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Universe of Maps\u003c/a>\u003c/em> in the Peterson Gallery on the library’s second floor. Massive printouts of the digitized maps from the collection are on the walls, including in the rotunda and in the stairwells. They’re even etched onto the glass doors at the entrance of the center. The sharpness of the detail is stunning. It may take you an hour to make your way into the center itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there, two floor-to-ceiling computer screens immediately capture your attention. One is a 12 x 7′ touch screen, for those big and small who’ve learned to relate to visual images through an iPad. The other screen is 16 x 9′. “These are basically screen savers that we commissioned from \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stamen Design\u003c/a> in San Francisco,” Rumsey jokes, just before he shows what you can do with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11496992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11496992\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-750x600.jpg\" alt=\"Plan de Turgota map of Paris (1739). This copy was printed from the original plates in approximately 1860.\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-750x600.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-400x320.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19166_Plan-de-Turgota-qut-960x768.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plan de Turgota map of Paris (1739). This copy was printed from the original plates in approximately 1860. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of The David Rumsey Map Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not that you can’t zoom in and out, cross fade between maps, and do side-by-side comparisons on your laptop at home. But on a giant screen, you can zoom in to see incredible detail that often goes completely unnoticed when you’re looking at a map as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumsey pulls up \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~287244~90059510:Composite--Paris--Plan-de-Turgot?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No?&qvq=q:paris;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=7605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Plan de Turgot\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a map of Paris from 1739. “It’s 20 sheets in a book, but we knitted them altogether into one gigantic image,” Rumsey says. On Rumsey’s big screen, you can see a huge amount of detail. “You see all the piles of wood?” Rumsey says. “That’s the heating source for Paris in 1739.” Rumsey clicks around, to show how wood is making its way from outside the city to homes inside. “The man that made this map had permission from the king to go into all the back yards,” Rumsey says. “So he has the gardens. It’s just an extraordinary cultural record. Maps are just like books. They’re filled with all kinds of stories to tell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11497112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11497112 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/RS19168_rumsey-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"David Rumsey stands in front of a map from 1733 superimposed over Google Earth. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of America’s most popular writers on race is now concentrating on the life of the superhero king of a mythical African country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ta-Nehisi Coates’ lifelong love of comic books made him jump at the chance to write \u003cem>the Black Panther\u003c/em>, one of the first comic books heroes of color for Marvel. While it may seem like a diversion from his serious commentary on race, Coates says it still allows him to talk about issues that he feels deeply about — through a good superhero story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can this promise of rights — human rights and civil rights — be expanded equally to everybody?” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “That is very much alive in Black Panther, even though it’s not a ‘race’ story. The spirit of it is very much there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, Coates’ 2015 book “Between the World and Me” won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and has been on The New York Times bestseller list for 37 weeks and counting. He also was a recipient of a McArthur Foundation “genius” grant last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now living in Paris, Coates is taking on a character with a long comic book history and a rising public profile. \u003cem>The Black Panther\u003c/em> was introduced as a supporting character in \u003cem>Fantastic Four\u003c/em> in 1966, and will be featured in Marvel’s \u003cem>Captain America: Civil War\u003c/em> movie in May. There is also a 2018 movie scheduled to be helmed by \u003cem>Fruitvale Station\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Creed\u003c/em> director Ryan Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther is the alter-ego of T’Challa, the king of Wakanda, a technologically-advanced African country. In addition to being monarch, he controls the country’s vibranium, a fictional metal that absorbs vibrations and forms the bedrock of the country’s wealth and power. A longtime ally and one-time member of both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, T’Challa uses his wealth, inventions, and country’s resources to battle against evil from both inside and outside his country’s borders while serving as the head of the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coates, who is now living in Paris, said he hopes to be part of making the Black Panther more popular in American society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to make people regard Wakanda and the Black Panther in the same way that I regarded Marvel’s New York and Spider-Man when I was a kid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be on its way. Marvel took more than 300,000 pre-orders for \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> #1, officials said. According to John Jackson Miller’s \u003cem>The Comics Chronicles\u003c/em>, the top selling comic book in March — \u003cem>Batman\u003c/em> — sold 163,406.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coates is writing an 11-issue run, with artist Brian Stelfreeze. It will explore questions of morality and power, such as why such a technologically-advanced country would even have a monarch, and whether a good man be king. When asked if there is an allegory for current state of politics in the United States in those questions, Coates laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is probably for people who are interpreting it to say,” he said. “I can paint the story but I’ll be interested in what people draw from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have questioned why Coates wrote a comic book instead of continuing to focus on real-life issues of racism and violence, especially with the issues playing such a vital role in the presidential campaign. Coates said he considers that question an attack on art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In every stage in history when people make art, horrible things are happening in the politics of the world. That’s where a lot of the art came from,” he said … “What people are really saying is, ‘Why don’t you write about the things I would write about? But I don’t actually have time to develop the chops to become the kind of person who can do journalism; I just want you to do what I would do.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, Coates explained, comic books heavily influenced his writing and are an underappreciated form of literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think comic books function as a form of visual poetry, at least when they’re done at a certain level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know what moves me,” he added, “and comic books have always been part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>I noticed it immediately from across the cluttered, musty-smelling room: a \u003ca href=\"http://jaysonelliot.com/blog/2010/10/23/phonemate-unboxing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phone-Mate IQ-2845\u003c/a> answering machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was at an estate sale in my hometown at a former bed & breakfast that’d gotten terrible reviews on Yelp — like, scary-terrible reviews, specifically of the B&B’s nosy and cantankerous owner. The owner had died, and I’d come to the estate sale to gawk at the insides of a house I’d read countless stories about solely based on customers’ bitter, angry reviews. But when I saw the Phone-Mate, I knew I’d have to buy it, no matter the price. We’re talking a circa-1985 answering machine with two cassettes inside, a technology utterly obsolete. Even if it turned out to be $50? Sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488463\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PhoneMate.jpg\" alt=\"The Phone-Mate IQ-2845 answering machine.\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11488463\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PhoneMate.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PhoneMate-400x533.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/PhoneMate-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phone-Mate IQ-2845 answering machine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was, after all, my family’s answering machine when I was growing up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not the same \u003cem>exact\u003c/em> answering machine, of course. It couldn’t be. I wouldn’t plug it in and hear my mom’s voice saying she’d be home late from running errands; the babysitter I not-so-secretly had a crush on calling about sitting Friday night; my friend Brandon asking how our dirtbike ramp was coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or… would I? A little voice inside my mind whispered: \u003cem>it’s possible, right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Spitznagel’s new book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://recordsneverdie.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Records Never Die\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, is a nonfiction memoir of Spitznagel’s quest, at age 45 and with a wife and son, to find and recapture the records he’d sold off in the mid- to late-’90s. Not just the same titles, mind you, and not just the same pressing of each — he tries to find the \u003cem>same exact copies\u003c/em> of records that he’d once owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bon Jovi record with his girlfriend’s number written on the cover. The Kiss record with a message from his brother scrawled inside the “K” in “Kiss.” The Replacements record that always skipped in the same spot, and every time he’s heard a pristine copy since, he’s missed the skip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitznagel wants the skip back. But that’s not all he wants back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-784x1180.jpg\" alt=\"'Old Records Never Die,' by Eric Spitznagel.\" width=\"640\" height=\"963\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11488464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-784x1180.jpg 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-768x1157.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-1180x1777.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Old Records Never Die,’ by Eric Spitznagel. \u003ccite>(Image: Penguin Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Old Records Never Die\u003c/em> starts somewhat plain, rehashing the familiar scripture of the vinyl collector, the same platitudes for records that you’ve heard before. Music should be tactile. Imperfections have personality. The digital experience is cold. Past this cursory introduction, we learn about Spitznagel’s stupidity in selling off his vinyl collection, his yearning to reclaim certain specific copies, and how his determination to find them is crystallized while talking with the Roots’ drummer Questlove. (Spitznagel, a magazine writer now working at \u003cem>Men’s Health\u003c/em>, has interviewed everyone from Merle Haggard to Ke$ha.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, readers’ ability to connect with the book may hinge on one’s appetite for sentimentalism, as well as one’s personal connection to and/or obsession over the details of records by the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, the Rolling Stones and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitznagel’s adolescence doesn’t align exactly with mine; I believe we’re 5-7 years apart. But most of the music in \u003cem>Old Records Never Die\u003c/em> is timeless anyway, and the way certain records lead him down endless tributaries of memories is a theme that resonates universally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488466\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/replacements-740x1180.jpg\" alt=\"The Replacements, 'Let it Be' cassette.\" width=\"640\" height=\"1021\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11488466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/replacements-740x1180.jpg 740w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/replacements-400x638.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/replacements-376x600.jpg 376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/replacements.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Replacements, ‘Let it Be’ cassette.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, reading his reasons for wanting to hold his exact same teenage copy of the Replacements’ \u003cem>Let it Be\u003c/em> immediately brought back every memory I personally have of the album. I remember the cassette tape I owned of \u003cem>Let it Be\u003c/em> when I was 18, the brown Volvo where I played \u003cem>Let it Be\u003c/em> and only \u003cem>Let it Be\u003c/em> on repeat for an entire summer, the phrase “We Don’t Wanna Know” that I spraypainted on my bass amp in homage to “Seen Your Video,” the riff I shamelessly stole from “Favorite Thing” for my band’s first album, the night I flipped my brown Volvo on the freeway driving back from a show doing 70mph because I fell asleep at the wheel, the fact that \u003cem>Let it Be\u003c/em> was still playing on the cassette deck when the car came to a stop in the median, and the very beautiful, mutual way that my girlfriend of 1½ years and I broke up, with no malice or bitterness, the very next day after the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitznagel’s search for his old records has its ups and downs, but even when he’s wildly unsuccessful (testing the patience of his wife, making foolish expensive purchases, chasing down rabbit holes in vain), he starts inching closer to a core understanding about adolescence and the ways we recall it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, about halfway through the book, is when \u003cem>Old Records Never Die\u003c/em> really kicks in. When Spitznagel visits his old college frat basement, writes about his father’s obsession with Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind” or reconnects with his first girlfriend \u003cem>High Fidelity\u003c/em>-style, it becomes less about the records and more about life itself. A beautiful passage involving Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” even has the unfathomable ability to pull the reader out of the convoluted sap of the overplayed song and into misty-eyed heartache over love and the passage of time. Really. I’m not kidding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488467\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Spitznagel.jpg\" alt=\"'Old Records Never Die' author Eric Spitznagel.\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11488467\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Spitznagel.jpg 450w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Spitznagel-400x329.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Old Records Never Die’ author Eric Spitznagel. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Penguin Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At times, the details and timing of these scenes seem too perfect, and it’s apparent that Spitznagel engages in a dose of creative nonfiction. (Is anyone who grew up in the Midwest in the ’80s really unable, like Spitznagel in the book, to immediately recall the title of the Prince song that’s about a beret? No.) But while stricter writers will allow the truth to get in the way of a good story, Spitznagel knows that a good story can sometimes lead to a greater truth. After accepting that aspect of \u003cem>Old Records Never Die\u003c/em>, the book’s conclusion — an unexpected variation of “you can’t go home again” — is wholly satisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wish I could say the same for the estate sale’s Phone-Mate IQ-2845 answering machine, which, as it turned out, only cost me $3. I brought it home and plugged it in. The series of clicks and buzzes and clacks that followed sounded like an Aphex Twin 12″, and it soon became apparent that the outgoing message cassette was thrashed. I tried and tried to fix it, but nothing worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But do you remember that girlfriend? 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But that’s not all he wants back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11488464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-784x1180.jpg\" alt=\"'Old Records Never Die,' by Eric Spitznagel.\" width=\"640\" height=\"963\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11488464\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-784x1180.jpg 784w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-398x600.jpg 398w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-768x1157.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-1180x1777.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/OldRecordsCover.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Old Records Never Die,’ by Eric Spitznagel. \u003ccite>(Image: Penguin Books)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Old Records Never Die\u003c/em> starts somewhat plain, rehashing the familiar scripture of the vinyl collector, the same platitudes for records that you’ve heard before. Music should be tactile. Imperfections have personality. The digital experience is cold. Past this cursory introduction, we learn about Spitznagel’s stupidity in selling off his vinyl collection, his yearning to reclaim certain specific copies, and how his determination to find them is crystallized while talking with the Roots’ drummer Questlove. (Spitznagel, a magazine writer now working at \u003cem>Men’s Health\u003c/em>, has interviewed everyone from Merle Haggard to Ke$ha.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, readers’ ability to connect with the book may hinge on one’s appetite for sentimentalism, as well as one’s personal connection to and/or obsession over the details of records by the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, the Rolling Stones and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitznagel’s adolescence doesn’t align exactly with mine; I believe we’re 5-7 years apart. 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