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I cherish the opportunity to satisfy my curiosity, interview fascinating sources, and to shine a light on untold stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role does Asia and the diaspora play in your writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, I have long been fascinated by the complicated relationship people hold with their ancestral and adopted homelands. My fiction builds upon my years of reporting about Asia and the diaspora. I have rolled dice with factory girls in China, dined with a teenage prostitute in Burma, and flown kites with Chinese diplomats in Panama. I tailed guerilla reporters in South Korea, chatted with rebellious kitchen ladies at a dim sum palace in San Francisco, and investigated a Chinese-American fundraiser for campaign finance violations, which led to the resignation of the California Secretary of State. Motherhood has also opened my heart and my writing in ways I didn’t foresee before having my twins. 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I’m extremely grateful to the Rona Jaffe Foundation and am humbled and honored to be counted among past winners who include luminaries such as ZZ Packer, Eula Bliss, Rachel Aviv, and Lan Samantha Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you love best about being a writer in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love the Bay Area’s amazing community of writers, who are supportive and whose compelling work inspires me every day. I am fortunate to have trusted friends with whom I trade manuscripts, tips, and advice. We commiserate and celebrate successes. I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in reading series such as \u003ca href=\"http://writerswithdrinks.com/\">Writers With Drinks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.babylonsalon.com/#!\">Babylon Salon\u003c/a>, and events such as LitQuake and the Oakland Book Festival. The seed of my novel was published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.zyzzyva.org/\">ZYZZYVA\u003c/a>, a Bay Area literary institution, and I’ve attended local creative writing conferences at Squaw Valley, Napa Valley, and Voices of our Nation (before its move to Miami.) The support of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State has been vital to this project. I also work and teach at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgrotto.org/\"> San Francisco Writers’ Grotto,\u003c/a> a wonderful group of writers, journalists, and poets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What books, articles, or other publications have inspired you lately?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laila Lalami’s \u003cem>The Moor’s Account\u003c/em>, which artfully fills in the gaps in history, bringing to life the first Arab explorer in America. Julia Scheeres’ chilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/children-of-the-tribes\">exposé\u003c/a> about a religious cult in \u003cem>Pacific Standard\u003c/em> magazine. Jennine Capó Crucet’s \u003cem>Make Your Home Among Strangers\u003c/em>, a poignant and funny debut novel about a first-generation Cuban American college student. Roxane Gay’s \u003cem>Bad Feminist\u003c/em>, an entertaining and thought-provoking collection of essays. Mia Alvar’s \u003cem>In The Country\u003c/em>, haunting short stories about the Filipino diaspora. For research related to magazine assignments, I’ve been reading oral histories collected by UC Berkeley and Voices of the Manhattan Project that provide an illuminating look at America during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not-to-Miss Author Events: Sept. 16 – 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10951548 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\" alt=\"Alcott-headshot-round\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petaluma-raised Brooklynite \u003cstrong>Kathleen Alcott\u003c/strong> is the special guest at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/oakland-celebration-fall-issue-zyzzyva\"> release party\u003c/a> for ZYZZYVA’s fall issue at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland. Other readers include Mauro Javier Cardenas, Molly Spencer and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Caille Millner… \u003cstrong>Elizabeth Egan\u003c/strong>‘s debut novel \u003cem>A Window Opens\u003c/em> is a compulsively readable glimpse into the life of a middle-class mom who leaves her part-time book editor position at a women’s magazine to work at a creepily sadistic and monolithic online company that bears a striking resemblance to Amazon. Egan \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/elisabeth-egan-window-opens\">appears \u003c/a>at Book Passage on Sept. 22… If you haven’t read \u003cstrong>Ann Beattie\u003c/strong> yet, get thee to a bookstore! And why not make it Kepler’s, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2082373\">celebrates\u003c/a> its 60th (!) anniversary this month, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1818023\">hosts\u003c/a> the prize-winning short story writer in conversation with Nick Taylor on Sept. 23… On Sept. 24, Aunte Lute Books \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1019792008051619/\">presents\u003c/a> ‘Our Indigenous Flesh,’ a reading with \u003cstrong>LeAnne Howe\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ire’ne Lara Silva\u003c/strong>. The two writers will read from their newest books, followed by a discussion of indigenous literature, indigenous queerness, and the ‘mystique of women of color writers’… \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10951546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg\" alt=\"GROFFBK\" width=\"273\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK.jpg 504w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GROFFBK-400x298.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\">\u003c/a>That same night, legendary short story writer Joy Williams\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-joy-williams\"> appears\u003c/a> at Green Apple Books’ Ninth Avenue store to celebrate the release of \u003cem>The Visiting Privilege\u003c/em>, a story collection spanning her entire career… And finally, \u003cstrong>Lauren Groff\u003c/strong>‘s latest ambitious novel \u003cem>Fates and Furies\u003c/em> has received accolades \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/books/review/lauren-groffs-fates-and-furies.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_bk_20150911&nl=books&nlid=61911809&_r=0\">left\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lauren-groff/fates-and-furies/\">right\u003c/a>. The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> recently called her — rightfully so — “a writer of rare gifts.” Groff \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/lauren-groff-fates-and-furies\">reads \u003c/a>at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Sept. 27.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Better Than War’ by Siamak Vossoughi\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the title story from Siamak Vossoughi’s debut story collection, the narrator intones to an Iranian-American teenager who’s come to him for dating advice: “You’re going to have to be better than war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Love, psychic and geographical distance, spirituality, and the different ways of navigating the experience of immigrating from Iran to America are the varied forcefields that surround the characters in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em>. It’s a promising debut from San Francisco-based Vossoughi, filled with quiet and deep undercurrents about the basic goodness of people, the immutability of love, and the power of learning to create your own narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stories in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em> — published this month by University of Georgia Press as winner of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/series/FOC\"> Flannery O’ Connor Award for Short Fiction\u003c/a> — are told by a series of erudite, heady narrators, the type that would likely trip on a crack in the sidewalk from staring at clouds, or at the very interesting man sitting at the bus stop across the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vossoughi was born in Tehran, and many of the stories are embroidered with threads of the Iranian-American experience. In “Take Our Daughter to Work Day,” the narrator, a former teacher in Iran, doesn’t want to bring her daughter to the hair salon in the U.S. where she now works. She wants her daughter to see the mother who lived and worked in Iran, where she believes she left her true self.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And she thought of how her daughter would never see her where she had been most herself, where she could move with so much certainty, where she knew the ins and outs of everything — the city itself and the school and relationships and family life. She would never see her walk with the city as her background as though it was hers alone, having earned it, having earned it from another day of aiming to be exactly who she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yet despite its glum theme, this story, like many of the stories in \u003cem>Better Than War\u003c/em>, ends on a note of optimism. While the mother cries at the thought of her daughter watching her sweep up other people’s hair in a salon, and goes mute at the dinner table for about a week, she ultimately entertains her family once again — like the passionate storyteller that she is, like the former teacher self she holds in such high esteem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Vossoughi’s writing veers towards the philosophical, with narrative structures influenced by the best of Russian literature, there are no murders of old women here, or suicides by train. On a whole, a sense of common humanity ties the book together, a sense that everyone is part of something one and the same. Strangers meet strangers and instead of feeling animosity, they embrace each other, include each other in their performances. At a bar, a man offers to fly another man to New York to see his faraway love, but only if the Giants win a particularly hopeless game. The Giants lose, and the man doesn’t end up going to New York, but everyone, at least, goes home with a sense of having connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sentiment best encapsulated by a moment from “The World is My Home,” where a young German woman takes in two young Iranian men traveling through Dresden, treating them like her own family for the entirety of their stay. After the girl confesses her dreams of a life spent gardening, reading and visiting her grandmother, the narrator muses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sometimes the world felt too big to be his home. If there were girls wondering and dreaming like that in Germany, then they were doing so everywhere. He couldn’t sit and listen to all of them. Even when he sat and listened to one of them, the world was just barely his home. It was the infinite depth of one person, more than miles they had traveled or distances between cultures — that was the greatest obstacle to the world being his home. Yet somehow it was the greatest opportunity too.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Q&A with Vanessa Hua \u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Vanessa-Hua-e1441996241905.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10951532 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Vanessa-Hua-e1441996241905.jpg\" alt=\"Vanessa Hua\" width=\"277\" height=\"231\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vanessa Hua, an Orinda-based freelance journalist and novelist, was announced this month as winner of a prestigious 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://ronajaffefoundation.org/\">Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\u003c/a>. Her work has appeared in the \u003c/em>New York Times\u003cem>, \u003c/em>The Atlantic\u003cem>, Guernica, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a staff writer at the \u003c/em>San Francisco Chronicle\u003cem>, the \u003c/em>Los Angeles Times\u003cem>, and the \u003c/em>Hartford Courant\u003cem>. She was a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction. She reads from her latest work on Sept. 20 at the California Institute of Integral Studies as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hazelreadingseries\">Hazel Reading Series\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you talk a bit about your writing background, specifically as it connects to the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up in the suburbs east of San Francisco, and have been writing stories since I was a child. The Bay Area — gateway to the Pacific Rim and perched on the edge of America — continues to offer much inspiration and exploration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you transition from journalism into fiction writing? Or have you always done both concurrently?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Stanford, I majored in English with an emphasis in creative writing, joined the school newspaper, and interned at newspapers and magazines. After graduating, I focused on journalism for a few years, and was a staff writer at the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> when I began taking evening fiction workshops. I wrote fiction before work, on weekends, and at lunch. Eventually, I left daily news to earn my MFA at UC Riverside. These days, my focus is fiction, but I regularly freelance essays and features. I’ll spend months working on a short story, years on a novel, and I deeply enjoy the quicker turnaround of journalism. I cherish the opportunity to satisfy my curiosity, interview fascinating sources, and to shine a light on untold stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role does Asia and the diaspora play in your writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, I have long been fascinated by the complicated relationship people hold with their ancestral and adopted homelands. My fiction builds upon my years of reporting about Asia and the diaspora. I have rolled dice with factory girls in China, dined with a teenage prostitute in Burma, and flown kites with Chinese diplomats in Panama. I tailed guerilla reporters in South Korea, chatted with rebellious kitchen ladies at a dim sum palace in San Francisco, and investigated a Chinese-American fundraiser for campaign finance violations, which led to the resignation of the California Secretary of State. Motherhood has also opened my heart and my writing in ways I didn’t foresee before having my twins. More vividly than ever, I can imagine the generational and cultural conflicts of my characters, the clash between self and society, tradition and change. In my novel-in-progress, a Chinese factory clerk travels to America to deliver her baby, giving the child U.S. citizenship. After her married lover betrays her, she flees, setting off a hunt for her and the baby. The novel chronicles the lives of Chinese immigrants and the American-born who straddle the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will the Rona Jaffe Foundation award enable you to do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This generous grant will allow me to pay for more childcare and scale back my freelance work while I complete my novel. Half of this year’s six winners cited childcare as an expense that the grant will cover. I’ve had many conversations with writers who are mothers of small children, about our ongoing struggle to carve out time and space. I’m extremely grateful to the Rona Jaffe Foundation and am humbled and honored to be counted among past winners who include luminaries such as ZZ Packer, Eula Bliss, Rachel Aviv, and Lan Samantha Chang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you love best about being a writer in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love the Bay Area’s amazing community of writers, who are supportive and whose compelling work inspires me every day. I am fortunate to have trusted friends with whom I trade manuscripts, tips, and advice. We commiserate and celebrate successes. I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in reading series such as \u003ca href=\"http://writerswithdrinks.com/\">Writers With Drinks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.babylonsalon.com/#!\">Babylon Salon\u003c/a>, and events such as LitQuake and the Oakland Book Festival. The seed of my novel was published in \u003ca href=\"http://www.zyzzyva.org/\">ZYZZYVA\u003c/a>, a Bay Area literary institution, and I’ve attended local creative writing conferences at Squaw Valley, Napa Valley, and Voices of our Nation (before its move to Miami.) The support of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State has been vital to this project. I also work and teach at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgrotto.org/\"> San Francisco Writers’ Grotto,\u003c/a> a wonderful group of writers, journalists, and poets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What books, articles, or other publications have inspired you lately?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laila Lalami’s \u003cem>The Moor’s Account\u003c/em>, which artfully fills in the gaps in history, bringing to life the first Arab explorer in America. Julia Scheeres’ chilling \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/children-of-the-tribes\">exposé\u003c/a> about a religious cult in \u003cem>Pacific Standard\u003c/em> magazine. Jennine Capó Crucet’s \u003cem>Make Your Home Among Strangers\u003c/em>, a poignant and funny debut novel about a first-generation Cuban American college student. Roxane Gay’s \u003cem>Bad Feminist\u003c/em>, an entertaining and thought-provoking collection of essays. Mia Alvar’s \u003cem>In The Country\u003c/em>, haunting short stories about the Filipino diaspora. For research related to magazine assignments, I’ve been reading oral histories collected by UC Berkeley and Voices of the Manhattan Project that provide an illuminating look at America during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not-to-Miss Author Events: Sept. 16 – 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10951548 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png\" alt=\"Alcott-headshot-round\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round.png 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Alcott-headshot-round-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Fat City’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Forty years before the city of Stockton filed for bankruptcy in 2008, Leonard Gardner wrote about another Stockton, one that was spiritually bankrupt and laden with depleted souls. Originally published in 1969, Gardner’s gritty \u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em>, about small-time boxers in 1950s Stockton, is reissued this month by New York Review of Books. Gardner \u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=2396\">appears at City Lights Books\u003c/a> on Sept. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em> opens with Billy Tully, a 29-year-old former boxer who moves from one rundown hotel to another, on a steep downward spiral after his wife leaves him. Tully once “had it all,” but he no longer has much of anything. From the opening paragraphs, Stockton itself becomes a secondary character, and a place where dreams go to die:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>From his window, [Billy] looked out on the stunted skyline of Stockton — a city of eighty thousand surrounded by the sloughs, rivers and fertile fields of the San Joaquin River delta — a view of business buildings, church spires, chimneys, water towers, gas tanks, and low roofs of residences rising among leafless trees and absolutely flat streets. Along the sidewalk under his window, men passed between bars and liquor stores, cafes, secondhand stores and walk-up hotels.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Under the desperate, smothering and possibly corrupt tutelage of Ruben Luna, a boxing coach at the Lido Gym, Tully attempts a comeback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FatCity.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10928251 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FatCity.jpg\" alt=\"FatCity\" width=\"177\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna also takes on another protege, Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old who loves boxing, seeing it as a way to escape the mundane tedium of his life as a night shift service station worker in the San Joaquin delta. Munger shares the same negative impulses as Tuttle, but he’s just starting out, and the darkness has not yet become so pronounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munger is dating a girl named Faye Murdock; “He felt in her lips and arms a lonely employment of him,” writes Gardner. Soon enough, after Ernie coerces her into having sex, Faye becomes pregnant, and the two get married. At one point, after his car becomes stuck in the mud, Ernie thinks: “He had to get home, had to get warm and dry and rested for his fight, but he was out here, wet in the bushes, stuck miles from town with a girl he might now never be able to get rid of.” It’s a cruel sentiment, and admittedly, the way women are written about in \u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em> made me uncomfortable more often than not. Still, in married life, Ernie seems to find some kind of renewal. Though ambivalent about Faye as a girlfriend, he appears to turn a new leaf as she becomes an integral component of the very functioning of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel’s focus moves between Munger and Tuttle. Tuttle shuffles from job to job, from fry cook to field laborer, falling deeper into alcoholism with each passing day. A scene that has him thinning tomatoes for 90 cents a day is a brutal portrayal of the work of a day laborer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Shuffling sideways, his lefts crossing and uncrossing, the short hoe rising and falling, he labored on in the despondency of one condemned, the instrument of his torture held in his own hand. Of all the hated work he had ever done, this was torment beyond any almost beyond belief, and so it began to seem this was his future, that this was Work, which he had always tried to evade and would never escape now that his wife was gone and his career over.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Paragraphs like this are what make \u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em> worth the read, despite dated characterizations and language around race and gender. In the book’s introduction, novelist Denis Johnson writes about discovering the book when it was first published in the 1960s, and how it was “so precisely written and giving such value to its word that I felt I could almost read it with my fingers, like braille.” Certainly, “precise” is a good way to describe Gardner’s sentences that ring with a vibrant energy, especially in stark contrast to the lonely, joyless Billy Tuttle. You may not root for him, but you can definitely empathize with his entrance into a dark night of the soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Standout Book Events and Readings in September\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quiet Lightning\u003c/strong> has a reputation for hosting their ‘Literary Mixtape’ readings in unexpected places. They continue the tradition on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/856298534460921/\">Sept. 7 \u003c/a>with a performance curated by Lauren Traetto and Charlie Getter, in honor of Kenneth Rexroth — Bay Area poet, essayist, Pacifica Foundation co-founder, and “Godfather of the Beat Poets.” Rexroth would likely approve of the tribute, seeing as he once wrote that live readings were essential to establishing “poetry as voice, not as printing.” Ask a Rexroth fan and you’re likely to hear that he produced some of his best work while living in a cabin at Devil’s Gulch in Samuel P. Taylor State Park. Thus, it’s fitting that a new generation of poets and writers reproduces his energy in that same spot, under a canopy of trees and stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/unnamed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10928336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\">\u003c/a>It wasn’t until many years after her death in 1977 that Brazilian short story writer and novelist Clarice Lispector ascended to her rightful global stature as one of Brazil’s best modern writers. Now, thanks to Bay Area-based translator Katrina Dodson and publishing house New Directions, Lispector’s entire ouevre of 86 published short stories are available for the first time in English. On Sept. 8, Dodson \u003ca href=\"http://www.ndbooks.com/event/clarice-lispector-katrina-dodson-at-green-apple-books/\">celebrates the release of \u003cem>The Complete Short Stories of Clarice Lispector\u003c/em> at Green Apple Books \u003c/a>with readings by Stephen Beachy, Norma Cole, Anisse Gross, Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Namwali Serpell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dragonfish\u003c/em>, the new mystery by Vu Tran, takes place in the shadowy gambling dens of Las Vegas. Apropos of the book’s underground settings, City Lights is collaborating with W.W. Norton to produce \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=2393\">Subterranean SF: Hardboiled Fiction With an Edge\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> on Sept. 10. The evening of mystery and storytelling takes place at an undisclosed location; it’s free, but in a clever touch, invitations can only be acquired in person at the front counter of City Lights (261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco). Ask for the black envelope, and you’ll find directions to the mysterious venue and a starting time enclosed. To find out about ticket availability, call (415) 362-8193 (ext. 24). Nothing like an undisclosed location to get the blood pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Franzen Fills the Hall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Copperfield’s Books recently hosted Jonathan Franzen, on a tour promoting his new novel \u003cem>Purity\u003c/em>, at Santa Rosa High School in Santa Rosa. The night started out promising with a good pre-reading analysis from the two lady bookworms seated directly behind me. “Franzen is a teensy bit misogynist, isn’t he?” said one woman to the other. “Not Saul Bellow horrible, but…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/10/karen-green-david-foster-wallace-interview\">Karen Green\u003c/a>, wife of the late David Foster Wallace and a respected artist in her own right, walked by in search of a seat. Turns out that Green and Franzen are friends — which is why, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436442184/jonathan-franzen-on-writing-its-an-escape-from-everything\">he told Terri Gross this week\u003c/a>, he has no interest in seeing the\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/426730724/the-end-of-the-tour-is-a-film-for-david-foster-wallace-buffs\"> new film starring \u003c/a>Jason Segal as DFW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/FranzenGregMartin.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Franzen. 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Franzen said he wished he had had the time to record the audio versions of his books, and that came as no surprise after seeing him read; it’s enjoyable to see a writer so engaged in his work and deriving such pleasure from his dialogue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franzen then adjourned to a nearby old leather chair for a Q&A with \u003ca href=\"http://www.janeciabattari.com/\">Jane Ciabattari. \u003c/a>He admitted early on to being in a “free-associative mood,” a fact possibly related to the Diet Coke he drank just before hitting the stage. Whatever was going on, it was an entertaining couple of hours led by Franzen’s down-to-earth nature — which, as he might say, connects back to an egalitarian upbringing in the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Franzen on setting key scenes from \u003cem>Purity\u003c/em> in California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was some combination of laziness and thrift. I’d been spending a lot of time in California, in Santa Cruz specifically. I write best about things that I love. I’ve had this deepening sense of love for Santa Cruz and the whole state, which is a surprise because of my East Coast background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Internet:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the internet in my office where I write. The first thing I do when I get home is spend two hours on email. I also get up early to check the baseball scores on the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. If you are talking about social media, well, that has a second- and third-order affect on my life. I hear about it, but most things I hear aren’t encouraging about the level of discourse, especially on Twitter. My private life isn’t affected by some lie someone chooses to share about me on Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bird-watching in Berlin:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became a birdwatcher 15 years ago, and Berlin is a great city for birds. Especially native European breeding birds which are now extinct in some countries because of agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing characters:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The transference that allows me to write characters that are different from myself comes from love. I’ll say it right here in Santa Rosa, I don’t have a good African-American friend. I could never write an African-American character because I’ve never loved an African-American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the whole ‘Adopting an Iraqi War Orphan’ kerfuffle:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I was just chatting with [\u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> culture writer] Emma Brockes, after the official interview. How I thought about adopting an orphan for about six weeks a few years ago, how I had walled myself off from life and started thinking maybe we made a mistake, maybe we should have some kids. Once Emma had filed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-purity-interview\">story\u003c/a>, her editor went in and added paragraphs, and the headline writers came up with some headlines [\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-considered-adopting-iraqi-orphan-young-people\">Jonathan Franzen ‘considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to figure out young people’\u003c/a>] they knew would get clicks and views. In that heated-up nonsense world of Twitter, that’s what counts. I was laughing at myself, but there seems to be a large number of people who are humorless on Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On creativity and being called a genius:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brutal fact of being any kind of artist is that it’s not always onward and higher… Fortunately, no one was calling me a genius when I was 25. I don’t write for glory. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FatCity.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10928251 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FatCity.jpg\" alt=\"FatCity\" width=\"177\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna also takes on another protege, Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old who loves boxing, seeing it as a way to escape the mundane tedium of his life as a night shift service station worker in the San Joaquin delta. Munger shares the same negative impulses as Tuttle, but he’s just starting out, and the darkness has not yet become so pronounced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munger is dating a girl named Faye Murdock; “He felt in her lips and arms a lonely employment of him,” writes Gardner. Soon enough, after Ernie coerces her into having sex, Faye becomes pregnant, and the two get married. At one point, after his car becomes stuck in the mud, Ernie thinks: “He had to get home, had to get warm and dry and rested for his fight, but he was out here, wet in the bushes, stuck miles from town with a girl he might now never be able to get rid of.” It’s a cruel sentiment, and admittedly, the way women are written about in \u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em> made me uncomfortable more often than not. Still, in married life, Ernie seems to find some kind of renewal. Though ambivalent about Faye as a girlfriend, he appears to turn a new leaf as she becomes an integral component of the very functioning of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel’s focus moves between Munger and Tuttle. Tuttle shuffles from job to job, from fry cook to field laborer, falling deeper into alcoholism with each passing day. A scene that has him thinning tomatoes for 90 cents a day is a brutal portrayal of the work of a day laborer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Shuffling sideways, his lefts crossing and uncrossing, the short hoe rising and falling, he labored on in the despondency of one condemned, the instrument of his torture held in his own hand. Of all the hated work he had ever done, this was torment beyond any almost beyond belief, and so it began to seem this was his future, that this was Work, which he had always tried to evade and would never escape now that his wife was gone and his career over.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Paragraphs like this are what make \u003cem>Fat City\u003c/em> worth the read, despite dated characterizations and language around race and gender. In the book’s introduction, novelist Denis Johnson writes about discovering the book when it was first published in the 1960s, and how it was “so precisely written and giving such value to its word that I felt I could almost read it with my fingers, like braille.” Certainly, “precise” is a good way to describe Gardner’s sentences that ring with a vibrant energy, especially in stark contrast to the lonely, joyless Billy Tuttle. You may not root for him, but you can definitely empathize with his entrance into a dark night of the soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Standout Book Events and Readings in September\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quiet Lightning\u003c/strong> has a reputation for hosting their ‘Literary Mixtape’ readings in unexpected places. They continue the tradition on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/856298534460921/\">Sept. 7 \u003c/a>with a performance curated by Lauren Traetto and Charlie Getter, in honor of Kenneth Rexroth — Bay Area poet, essayist, Pacifica Foundation co-founder, and “Godfather of the Beat Poets.” Rexroth would likely approve of the tribute, seeing as he once wrote that live readings were essential to establishing “poetry as voice, not as printing.” Ask a Rexroth fan and you’re likely to hear that he produced some of his best work while living in a cabin at Devil’s Gulch in Samuel P. Taylor State Park. Thus, it’s fitting that a new generation of poets and writers reproduces his energy in that same spot, under a canopy of trees and stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/unnamed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10928336\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\">\u003c/a>It wasn’t until many years after her death in 1977 that Brazilian short story writer and novelist Clarice Lispector ascended to her rightful global stature as one of Brazil’s best modern writers. Now, thanks to Bay Area-based translator Katrina Dodson and publishing house New Directions, Lispector’s entire ouevre of 86 published short stories are available for the first time in English. On Sept. 8, Dodson \u003ca href=\"http://www.ndbooks.com/event/clarice-lispector-katrina-dodson-at-green-apple-books/\">celebrates the release of \u003cem>The Complete Short Stories of Clarice Lispector\u003c/em> at Green Apple Books \u003c/a>with readings by Stephen Beachy, Norma Cole, Anisse Gross, Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Namwali Serpell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dragonfish\u003c/em>, the new mystery by Vu Tran, takes place in the shadowy gambling dens of Las Vegas. Apropos of the book’s underground settings, City Lights is collaborating with W.W. Norton to produce \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=2393\">Subterranean SF: Hardboiled Fiction With an Edge\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> on Sept. 10. The evening of mystery and storytelling takes place at an undisclosed location; it’s free, but in a clever touch, invitations can only be acquired in person at the front counter of City Lights (261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco). Ask for the black envelope, and you’ll find directions to the mysterious venue and a starting time enclosed. To find out about ticket availability, call (415) 362-8193 (ext. 24). Nothing like an undisclosed location to get the blood pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Franzen Fills the Hall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Copperfield’s Books recently hosted Jonathan Franzen, on a tour promoting his new novel \u003cem>Purity\u003c/em>, at Santa Rosa High School in Santa Rosa. The night started out promising with a good pre-reading analysis from the two lady bookworms seated directly behind me. “Franzen is a teensy bit misogynist, isn’t he?” said one woman to the other. “Not Saul Bellow horrible, but…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/10/karen-green-david-foster-wallace-interview\">Karen Green\u003c/a>, wife of the late David Foster Wallace and a respected artist in her own right, walked by in search of a seat. Turns out that Green and Franzen are friends — which is why, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436442184/jonathan-franzen-on-writing-its-an-escape-from-everything\">he told Terri Gross this week\u003c/a>, he has no interest in seeing the\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/426730724/the-end-of-the-tour-is-a-film-for-david-foster-wallace-buffs\"> new film starring \u003c/a>Jason Segal as DFW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/FranzenGregMartin.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Franzen. (Photo: Greg Martin)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10937421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/FranzenGregMartin.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/FranzenGregMartin-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Franzen. (Photo: Greg Martin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief introduction, Franzen took the stage for a spirited and comedic reading from\u003cem> Purity\u003c/em>. Franzen said he wished he had had the time to record the audio versions of his books, and that came as no surprise after seeing him read; it’s enjoyable to see a writer so engaged in his work and deriving such pleasure from his dialogue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franzen then adjourned to a nearby old leather chair for a Q&A with \u003ca href=\"http://www.janeciabattari.com/\">Jane Ciabattari. \u003c/a>He admitted early on to being in a “free-associative mood,” a fact possibly related to the Diet Coke he drank just before hitting the stage. Whatever was going on, it was an entertaining couple of hours led by Franzen’s down-to-earth nature — which, as he might say, connects back to an egalitarian upbringing in the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Franzen on setting key scenes from \u003cem>Purity\u003c/em> in California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was some combination of laziness and thrift. I’d been spending a lot of time in California, in Santa Cruz specifically. I write best about things that I love. I’ve had this deepening sense of love for Santa Cruz and the whole state, which is a surprise because of my East Coast background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Internet:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have the internet in my office where I write. The first thing I do when I get home is spend two hours on email. I also get up early to check the baseball scores on the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. If you are talking about social media, well, that has a second- and third-order affect on my life. I hear about it, but most things I hear aren’t encouraging about the level of discourse, especially on Twitter. My private life isn’t affected by some lie someone chooses to share about me on Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bird-watching in Berlin:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I became a birdwatcher 15 years ago, and Berlin is a great city for birds. 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Once Emma had filed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-purity-interview\">story\u003c/a>, her editor went in and added paragraphs, and the headline writers came up with some headlines [\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/21/jonathan-franzen-considered-adopting-iraqi-orphan-young-people\">Jonathan Franzen ‘considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to figure out young people’\u003c/a>] they knew would get clicks and views. In that heated-up nonsense world of Twitter, that’s what counts. I was laughing at myself, but there seems to be a large number of people who are humorless on Twitter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On creativity and being called a genius:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The brutal fact of being any kind of artist is that it’s not always onward and higher… Fortunately, no one was calling me a genius when I was 25. I don’t write for glory. 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I have enjoyed my work here at the library and I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish,” Scott said in a statement Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library’s Board of Trustees will initiate a search to fill the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the public, as well as current and former librarians, have accused Scott of lying about the number of books discarded by the library in the weeding process. 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They said they thought Scott had lied to the community about the number of items weeded out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott initially said he thought 2,200 items had been discarded this year. He later acknowledged that the real number was 39,000, pointing out that in a previous year more than 50,000 items were weeded out. Some also said they were punished for speaking out against the collections management policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of the speakers called for Scott to be either fired or suspended without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Mullan, a former librarian who was a leader in the campaign against the weeding, told Berkeleyside she was “relieved” at the news of Scott’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community is aghast at what happened,” Mullan said. “I hope the library board now can take the reins and find an interim director who understands the staff and the collection while doing a national search.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullan added that she thought two other staffers in collection management should also leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really happy he is gone. He was the wrong man for the job,” said Bob Baty, who retired as the libraries’ head of maintenance in 2008 after 19 years and who now serves on the board of the Friends of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He consistently lied to us about the number of books that were pulped, number one,” Baty said. “And number two, he kept saying they were all going to the Friends, and all we got were five boxes out of 39,000 volumes. So he broke trust with the entire staff, and therefore his ability to lead was gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who called last week for an independent investigation into the weeding issue, said he still wants to know more about what happened at the libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody else is responsible for the mistreatment of the librarians and inaccurate information, they shouldn’t be off the hook and have him be the sacrificial lamb,” Worthington said. “We need to see what went wrong. Where did the inaccurate information come from. Did it come from him only? From one person to him? From two people to him? Who made the mistakes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second Berkeley library director who has been forced to resign in recent history. Jackie Griffin resigned in 2006 over union-related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Scott was in his position for only about 10 months, he oversaw the creation of a new strategic plan for the library, one that included creating a larger gathering spot for teens in the Central Library. He was concerned about how to balance the needs of the homeless with other patrons and set up a task force to consider the situation. He was also active on social media, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jdscott50/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting regularly\u003c/a> about library events and issues. He is a voracious reader and posted book reviews regularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/321314-jeff-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board is scheduled to meet next week, at which time it will discuss the details for a new director search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel the role of the director of the Berkeley Public Library is a terrific opportunity, and we look forward to proceeding with that selection,” said Abigail Franklin, chair of the library board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeleyside broke this story on Twitter. Want to get breaking news quickly? Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He was the author of a dozen other books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend and colleague, Orrin Devinsky, who is a professor of neurology at New York University, where Sacks worked for many years, emailed NPR to confirm the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times\u003c/a> writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“As a medical doctor and a writer, Dr. Sacks achieved a level of popular renown rare among scientists. More than a million copies of his books are in print in the United States, his work was adapted for film and stage, and he received about 10,000 letters a year. 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I’m strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn’t help thinking, ‘That must be what the hand of God is like.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacks did a TED Talk on the subject in 2009:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Op-Ed that appeared in the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> in February, Sacks announced that what had started out as a melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver and that he didn’t have long to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been lucky enough to live past 80, and the 15 years allotted to me beyond Hume’s three score and five have been equally rich in work and love,” Sacks wrote. “In that time, I have published five books and completed an autobiography (rather longer than Hume’s few pages) to be published this spring; I have several other books nearly finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in an opinion piece published in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html?smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times\u003c/a> earlier this month, Sacks wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[N]ow, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For all their lacks and losses, or what the medics call ‘deficits’, Sacks’s subjects have a capacious 19th-century humanity,” Appignanesi wrote. “No mere objects of hasty clinical notes, or articles in professional journals, his ‘patients’ are transformed by his interest, sympathetic gaze and ability to convey optimism in tragedy into grand characters who can transcend their conditions. They emerge as the very types of our neuroscientific age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his later life, Sacks began studying hallucinations, partly inspired by his youthful experimentation with LSD. He wrote a book and conducted lectures on the subject. In an interview with Terry Gross, host of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/06/21/193925787/oliver-sacks-exploring-how-hallucinations-happen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR’s Fresh Air\u003c/a>, in 2012, Sacks said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I’m strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn’t help thinking, ‘That must be what the hand of God is like.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacks did a TED Talk on the subject in 2009:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Op-Ed that appeared in the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> in February, Sacks announced that what had started out as a melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver and that he didn’t have long to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me. I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been lucky enough to live past 80, and the 15 years allotted to me beyond Hume’s three score and five have been equally rich in work and love,” Sacks wrote. “In that time, I have published five books and completed an autobiography (rather longer than Hume’s few pages) to be published this spring; I have several other books nearly finished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in an opinion piece published in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html?smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times\u003c/a> earlier this month, Sacks wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[N]ow, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oliver+Sacks%2C+Renowned+Neurologist+And+Author%2C+Dies+At+82&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/fallarts\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-400x400.png\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10915302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re driven inside by colder temperatures and shorter days or the desire to avoid pumpkin spice everything, fall is the perfect time to start making good on your resolution to read more. As publishers debut their more serious fare after a season of frothy beach reads, there’s no shortage of options to pick up from your local bookstore. Here are ten books to look forward to — some are zeitgeisty, some have Bay Area connections, but all will keep you entertained through a season of gift-giving, family obligations, and (hopefully) rainy nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903959\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"The Heart Goes Last\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-400x608.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-395x600.jpg 395w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-777x1180.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-1180x1793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-960x1458.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Heart Goes Last \u003ccite>(Doubleday)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Margaret Atwood; 320 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 29\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Margaret Atwood, everyone’s favorite dystopian-writing Canadian, is back with a new book, her first stand alone novel since 2000’s Booker Award-winning tome \u003cem>The Blind Assassin\u003c/em>. \u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em> is set in the not too distant future, where couple Charmaine and Stan are desperate to get themselves out of poverty. They agree to be part of a social experiment where they’re given a house and a job. In exchange? Every other month, they serve a month in the town’s prison. At first, Charmaine and Stan think it’s the perfect arrangement. But like in so many of Atwood’s novels, the flaws in their society slowly start to reveal themselves, crack by crack, illustrating broader themes of uneasy gender roles and the creeping overreach of the political establishment.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903954\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"The Witches: Salem, 1692\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-396x600.jpg 396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-778x1180.jpg 778w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-1180x1789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-960x1456.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Witches: Salem, 1692 \u003ccite>(Hachette Book Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Witches: Salem, 1692\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Stacy Schiff; 512 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 27\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Stacy Schiff has made a career of exploring the private lives of iconic women throughout history. She won a Pulitzer in 2000 for her biography of Vera Nabokov, and her 2010 biography of Cleopatra was a bestseller. Now she’s expanding her focus to a group of notable women: the women in the center of the hysteria over witches that consumed the early days of the U.S. colonies. Her book describes a period that, as the book’s back cover points out, was one of the few times women were at the center of America’s history. The episode lasted only a year, but had a sizable influence on our nation’s history, which Schiff’s book will unpack with her elegant prose and exhaustive research.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10904130\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10904130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-400x596.jpg\" alt=\"Not on Fire, but Burning\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-400x596.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-403x600.jpg 403w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-793x1180.jpg 793w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-1180x1757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire.jpg 1763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not on Fire, but Burning \u003ccite>(Melville House )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Not on Fire, but Burning\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Greg Hrbek; 272 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 22\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the recent San Francisco-torpedoing in \u003cem>San Andreas\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> film critic Mick LaSalle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Blockbuster-season-means-open-season-on-San-6283568.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece\u003c/a> exploring why people love to see San Francisco destroyed in films. “San Francisco has become the go-to city for cinematic destruction. This is the city that knows how … to blow up.” he wrote. The powerful effect of seeing the bridge decimated forms the center of Greg Hrbek’s new novel, where the bridge has been destroyed by a mysterious ball of heat. Years later, that event and the subsequent destruction of most of San Francisco’s residents, creates the desolate landscape that his characters find themselves in: terrified and angry, with Muslims (who have been blamed for the attack) herded into desert internment camps. As his characters uneasily navigate each other and their new world, they grapple with the same issues and prejudices of our current post-9/11 instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-781x1180.jpg 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-1180x1783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-960x1450.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism \u003ccite>(The New Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Kathryn S. Olmsted; 288 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As the election cycle begins its march toward next November and conservative candidates start to jockey for the Republican nomination, a new book looks at the surprising place many of their strategies sprung from: the Depression-era fights between California agriculture growers and their workers. \u003cem>Right Out of California,\u003c/em> written by UC Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted examines that history, illustrating how business owners who were scared of losing their subsidies devised more aggressive tactics to wage a public battle against their workers, influencing all future relationships between business owners and politicians. Some of those new tactics? Powerful partnerships between fiscal and religious conservatives, influential campaign consultants and borrowing the language of populism — all of which will be on display during this coming election.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903953\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-400x585.jpg\" alt=\"Purity\" width=\"200\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-400x585.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-411x600.jpg 411w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-807x1180.jpg 807w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-1920x2806.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-1180x1725.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-960x1403.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purity \u003ccite>( Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Purity\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Jonathan Franzen; 576 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 1\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The notoriously tetchy Jonathan Franzen has always seemed a little uncomfortable with his literary stardom and the public has responded in kind. He’s like a grumpy parent, endlessly annoyed with the trappings of modern life: Oprah! Apple products! The Internet! Earlier this year, he even managed to piss off the Audubon Society. Yet despite his numerous enemies (most vocally Jennifer Weiner, who also has a novel coming out this fall), he’s one of America’s most important writers and critics. His latest sprawling novel follows eponymous protagonist Purity, aka Pip, from her confused beginnings at an anarchist crash pad in Oakland to her encounters with the mysterious German founder of a Wikileaks-type organization. Franzen has said his goal was to move away from plot with this novel, and instead focus on his characters and how they interact with their world. And whatever your feelings on Franzen, he’s a conversation starter — the think pieces on Purity have already begun.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10904131\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10904131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Fame Citrus\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-782x1180.jpg 782w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-1180x1782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Fame Citrus \u003ccite>(Riverhead Books )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Gold Fame Citrus\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Claire Vaye Watkins; 352 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 29\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The current drought has stretched on for years, leaving the Central Valley barren. The Sierra snowpack has been completely drained. Most residents have been sent to internment camps. That’s the premise of \u003cem>Gold Fame Citrus\u003c/em> by Claire Vaye Watkins, which focuses on two Angelenos trying to adapt to their new conditions. Her characters eke by, but the arrival of a mysterious child threatens their tentative survival as they search for a water diviner to save them. Watkin’s 2012 collection of stories garnered praise from everyone from the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> to \u003cem>Oprah Magazine\u003c/em> and with this novel, she’s aided by her intimate knowledge of her landscape from growing up in the Mojave desert.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903955\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903955\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-395x600.jpg 395w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-777x1180.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-1180x1792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-960x1458.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer \u003ccite>(Disney-Hyperion)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Rick Riordan; 512 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 6\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Every kid dutifully learns Greek mythology in schools. Norse mythology, that dark collection of helmeted characters with names like Skaði and Njörðr, is lesser known (that is, save for the Marvel-endorsed Thor and Loki). But if there’s anyone that can change that, it’s Rick Riordan and his new YA book, \u003cem>The Sword of Summer\u003c/em>, the first in a planned series. The author of the Percy Jackson series — in which a 12 year old with ADHD and dyslexia grapples with the powers that come with discovering he’s the son of Poseidon — has a knack for creating new stories out of old legends that are immensely appealing to young readers, as seen in the millions of copies sold around the world. The new series features scrappy teen Magnus Chase, homeless and living on the streets of Boston, who learns he’s the son of a Norse god and that the gods are preparing for war.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-400x494.jpg\" alt=\"The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-400x494.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-486x600.jpg 486w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-955x1180.jpg 955w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-1920x2372.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-1180x1458.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-960x1186.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science \u003ccite>(W. W. Norton & Company/Cover design by Jaya Miceli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by J. Kenji López-Alt; 938 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 21\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In his column for \u003cem>Serious Eats\u003c/em>, recipe developer (and recent Bay Area transplant) J. Kenji López-Alt teaches readers how to make the best version of everything from pancakes to meatloaf, using a combination of humor, hard won kitchen experience and a scholarly knowledge of cooking science. López-Alt, who got his start at the equally obsessive \u003cem>Cook’s Illustrated\u003c/em>, is ruthless; he ignores common wisdom in favor of unexpected ingredients and techniques (sour cream for the ultimate fluffy, tangy pancakes) while dissecting every recipe to show readers how they too can get perfect results every time. His new book promises hundreds of new recipes and clocks in at a staggering 938 pages — enough to keep you cooking well into 2016.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903956\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903956\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Story Of My Teeth\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Story Of My Teeth \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coffee House Press/Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Story of My Teeth\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Valeria Luiselli and translated by Christina MacSweeney; 184 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 15\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Valeria Luiselli’s twisting, elegantly eccentric novel follows the story of Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sánchez, an auctioneer with a simple goal: to replace all of his teeth with new ones. At one point, he finds himself in possession Marilyn Monroe’s teeth, hard won in a bar in Little Havana. His journey takes him across Mexico City and in contact with a group of bizarre characters, which include a number of fictional versions of real life Spanish-language writers, such as Argentinian writer and critic Alan Pauls, and Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera. If that’s not strange enough for you, the novel has an equally unusual origin story: Luiselli wrote the novel in collaboration with workers from the Jumex juice factory.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903957\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome To Night Vale\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome To Night Vale \u003ccite>(HarperCollins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Welcome to Night Vale\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor; 416 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 20\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For the uninitiated, the deliciously weird and eerie podcast \u003cem>Welcome To Night Vale\u003c/em> is a serial tale that unfolds gradually, expertly building the tension and character’s problems in twice-monthly episodes. It’s become so popular that it’s transcended it’s radio roots and has since become a popular touring show; earlier this year, they stopped by San Francisco and Oakland for sold out shows. This fall, they’re publishing a book authored by the podcast’s writers. If you’re already a fan of the podcast, expect more of the combination that’d made it so popular: carefully drawn characters from the small town of Night Vale that deal with the spooky and supernatural — ghosts, angels and aliens — without losing their humanity.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/fallarts\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-400x400.png\" alt=\"FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10915302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-32x32.png 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-64x64.png 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-96x96.png 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-128x128.png 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/FallArtsPreview-2015-400x400-2-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether you’re driven inside by colder temperatures and shorter days or the desire to avoid pumpkin spice everything, fall is the perfect time to start making good on your resolution to read more. As publishers debut their more serious fare after a season of frothy beach reads, there’s no shortage of options to pick up from your local bookstore. Here are ten books to look forward to — some are zeitgeisty, some have Bay Area connections, but all will keep you entertained through a season of gift-giving, family obligations, and (hopefully) rainy nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903959\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"The Heart Goes Last\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-400x608.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-395x600.jpg 395w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-777x1180.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-1180x1793.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2-960x1458.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Heart-Goes-Last_Atwood-2.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Heart Goes Last \u003ccite>(Doubleday)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Margaret Atwood; 320 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 29\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Margaret Atwood, everyone’s favorite dystopian-writing Canadian, is back with a new book, her first stand alone novel since 2000’s Booker Award-winning tome \u003cem>The Blind Assassin\u003c/em>. \u003cem>The Heart Goes Last\u003c/em> is set in the not too distant future, where couple Charmaine and Stan are desperate to get themselves out of poverty. They agree to be part of a social experiment where they’re given a house and a job. In exchange? Every other month, they serve a month in the town’s prison. At first, Charmaine and Stan think it’s the perfect arrangement. But like in so many of Atwood’s novels, the flaws in their society slowly start to reveal themselves, crack by crack, illustrating broader themes of uneasy gender roles and the creeping overreach of the political establishment.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903954\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"The Witches: Salem, 1692\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-396x600.jpg 396w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-778x1180.jpg 778w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-1180x1789.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2-960x1456.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Schiff_THEWITCHES-2.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Witches: Salem, 1692 \u003ccite>(Hachette Book Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Witches: Salem, 1692\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Stacy Schiff; 512 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 27\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Stacy Schiff has made a career of exploring the private lives of iconic women throughout history. She won a Pulitzer in 2000 for her biography of Vera Nabokov, and her 2010 biography of Cleopatra was a bestseller. Now she’s expanding her focus to a group of notable women: the women in the center of the hysteria over witches that consumed the early days of the U.S. colonies. Her book describes a period that, as the book’s back cover points out, was one of the few times women were at the center of America’s history. The episode lasted only a year, but had a sizable influence on our nation’s history, which Schiff’s book will unpack with her elegant prose and exhaustive research.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10904130\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10904130\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-400x596.jpg\" alt=\"Not on Fire, but Burning\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-400x596.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-403x600.jpg 403w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-793x1180.jpg 793w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-1180x1757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/fire.jpg 1763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not on Fire, but Burning \u003ccite>(Melville House )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Not on Fire, but Burning\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Greg Hrbek; 272 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 22\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the recent San Francisco-torpedoing in \u003cem>San Andreas\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> film critic Mick LaSalle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Blockbuster-season-means-open-season-on-San-6283568.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece\u003c/a> exploring why people love to see San Francisco destroyed in films. “San Francisco has become the go-to city for cinematic destruction. This is the city that knows how … to blow up.” he wrote. The powerful effect of seeing the bridge decimated forms the center of Greg Hrbek’s new novel, where the bridge has been destroyed by a mysterious ball of heat. Years later, that event and the subsequent destruction of most of San Francisco’s residents, creates the desolate landscape that his characters find themselves in: terrified and angry, with Muslims (who have been blamed for the attack) herded into desert internment camps. As his characters uneasily navigate each other and their new world, they grapple with the same issues and prejudices of our current post-9/11 instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903958\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-781x1180.jpg 781w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-1180x1783.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress-960x1450.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/newpress.jpg 1837w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism \u003ccite>(The New Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Kathryn S. Olmsted; 288 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 13\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>As the election cycle begins its march toward next November and conservative candidates start to jockey for the Republican nomination, a new book looks at the surprising place many of their strategies sprung from: the Depression-era fights between California agriculture growers and their workers. \u003cem>Right Out of California,\u003c/em> written by UC Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted examines that history, illustrating how business owners who were scared of losing their subsidies devised more aggressive tactics to wage a public battle against their workers, influencing all future relationships between business owners and politicians. Some of those new tactics? Powerful partnerships between fiscal and religious conservatives, influential campaign consultants and borrowing the language of populism — all of which will be on display during this coming election.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903953\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903953\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-400x585.jpg\" alt=\"Purity\" width=\"200\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-400x585.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-411x600.jpg 411w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-807x1180.jpg 807w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-1920x2806.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-1180x1725.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2-960x1403.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity-2.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purity \u003ccite>( Farrar, Straus and Giroux)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Purity\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Jonathan Franzen; 576 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 1\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The notoriously tetchy Jonathan Franzen has always seemed a little uncomfortable with his literary stardom and the public has responded in kind. He’s like a grumpy parent, endlessly annoyed with the trappings of modern life: Oprah! Apple products! The Internet! Earlier this year, he even managed to piss off the Audubon Society. Yet despite his numerous enemies (most vocally Jennifer Weiner, who also has a novel coming out this fall), he’s one of America’s most important writers and critics. His latest sprawling novel follows eponymous protagonist Purity, aka Pip, from her confused beginnings at an anarchist crash pad in Oakland to her encounters with the mysterious German founder of a Wikileaks-type organization. Franzen has said his goal was to move away from plot with this novel, and instead focus on his characters and how they interact with their world. And whatever your feelings on Franzen, he’s a conversation starter — the think pieces on Purity have already begun.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10904131\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10904131\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Fame Citrus\" width=\"200\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-400x604.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-397x600.jpg 397w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-782x1180.jpg 782w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-1180x1782.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold-960x1449.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/gold.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Fame Citrus \u003ccite>(Riverhead Books )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Gold Fame Citrus\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Claire Vaye Watkins; 352 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 29\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>The current drought has stretched on for years, leaving the Central Valley barren. The Sierra snowpack has been completely drained. Most residents have been sent to internment camps. That’s the premise of \u003cem>Gold Fame Citrus\u003c/em> by Claire Vaye Watkins, which focuses on two Angelenos trying to adapt to their new conditions. Her characters eke by, but the arrival of a mysterious child threatens their tentative survival as they search for a water diviner to save them. Watkin’s 2012 collection of stories garnered praise from everyone from the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> to \u003cem>Oprah Magazine\u003c/em> and with this novel, she’s aided by her intimate knowledge of her landscape from growing up in the Mojave desert.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903955\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903955\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-400x607.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-395x600.jpg 395w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-777x1180.jpg 777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-1180x1792.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2-960x1458.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/MAGNUS-CHASE_jacket_FINAL-2.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer \u003ccite>(Disney-Hyperion)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Rick Riordan; 512 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 6\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Every kid dutifully learns Greek mythology in schools. Norse mythology, that dark collection of helmeted characters with names like Skaði and Njörðr, is lesser known (that is, save for the Marvel-endorsed Thor and Loki). But if there’s anyone that can change that, it’s Rick Riordan and his new YA book, \u003cem>The Sword of Summer\u003c/em>, the first in a planned series. The author of the Percy Jackson series — in which a 12 year old with ADHD and dyslexia grapples with the powers that come with discovering he’s the son of Poseidon — has a knack for creating new stories out of old legends that are immensely appealing to young readers, as seen in the millions of copies sold around the world. The new series features scrappy teen Magnus Chase, homeless and living on the streets of Boston, who learns he’s the son of a Norse god and that the gods are preparing for war.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903960\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903960\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-400x494.jpg\" alt=\"The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-400x494.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-486x600.jpg 486w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-955x1180.jpg 955w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-1920x2372.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-1180x1458.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Food-Lab_978-0-393-08108-4_no-frame-2-960x1186.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science \u003ccite>(W. W. Norton & Company/Cover design by Jaya Miceli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by J. Kenji López-Alt; 938 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 21\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In his column for \u003cem>Serious Eats\u003c/em>, recipe developer (and recent Bay Area transplant) J. Kenji López-Alt teaches readers how to make the best version of everything from pancakes to meatloaf, using a combination of humor, hard won kitchen experience and a scholarly knowledge of cooking science. López-Alt, who got his start at the equally obsessive \u003cem>Cook’s Illustrated\u003c/em>, is ruthless; he ignores common wisdom in favor of unexpected ingredients and techniques (sour cream for the ultimate fluffy, tangy pancakes) while dissecting every recipe to show readers how they too can get perfect results every time. His new book promises hundreds of new recipes and clocks in at a staggering 938 pages — enough to keep you cooking well into 2016.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903956\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903956\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Story Of My Teeth\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/StoryOfMyTeeth-HighRes-2.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Story Of My Teeth \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coffee House Press/Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>The Story of My Teeth\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Valeria Luiselli and translated by Christina MacSweeney; 184 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Sept. 15\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>Valeria Luiselli’s twisting, elegantly eccentric novel follows the story of Gustavo ‘Highway’ Sánchez, an auctioneer with a simple goal: to replace all of his teeth with new ones. At one point, he finds himself in possession Marilyn Monroe’s teeth, hard won in a bar in Little Havana. His journey takes him across Mexico City and in contact with a group of bizarre characters, which include a number of fictional versions of real life Spanish-language writers, such as Argentinian writer and critic Alan Pauls, and Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera. If that’s not strange enough for you, the novel has an equally unusual origin story: Luiselli wrote the novel in collaboration with workers from the Jumex juice factory.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout noborder\">\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10903957\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10903957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome To Night Vale\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Welcome-to-Night-Vale-hc-c-2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome To Night Vale \u003ccite>(HarperCollins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Welcome to Night Vale\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch5>by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor; 416 pages, hardcover\u003cbr>\nPublication date, Oct. 20\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>For the uninitiated, the deliciously weird and eerie podcast \u003cem>Welcome To Night Vale\u003c/em> is a serial tale that unfolds gradually, expertly building the tension and character’s problems in twice-monthly episodes. It’s become so popular that it’s transcended it’s radio roots and has since become a popular touring show; earlier this year, they stopped by San Francisco and Oakland for sold out shows. This fall, they’re publishing a book authored by the podcast’s writers. If you’re already a fan of the podcast, expect more of the combination that’d made it so popular: carefully drawn characters from the small town of Night Vale that deal with the spooky and supernatural — ghosts, angels and aliens — without losing their humanity.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This week we welcome the debut of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Into the Valley’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Into the Valley\u003c/em>, the debut novel from Ruth Galm, opens with a 30 year-old secretary from San Francisco cashing a counterfeit check in a Central Valley bank. The woman, named B., has landed in the hot, dry agricultural region — in a new Mustang paid for by check fraud — after hearing a man on the city bus mumbling about the “long table of land just beyond the mountains and the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“She imagined in this long unvarying plane, all the contradictions of the city might fall away. That its bareness would reveal something, provide an answer she had failed to acquire. A place of unvarnished truth to which she must go.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905586\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/intothevalley.jpg\" alt=\"'Into the Valley,' by Ruth Galm.\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905586\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Into the Valley,’ by Ruth Galm.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>B. doesn’t know what she wants. She’s foundering, suffocated by the concepts of femininity available in 1967, the year the novel takes place. B. slashed her given name, Beverly — with its “lift at the end like a promise made without her agreement” — down to one syllable while in college. Still, she’s dismayed by the strange new breed of young women on the streets of San Francisco, with their “grass-smoking and greasy hair, the idea of a counterculture, the attraction of some newer freer community, opposing itself to the mainstream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, B. mourns the era when women wore gloves, combed their hair, and wore lipstick and dresses, like her own from I. Magnin. Yet these material trappings are the first to go as B. drives up and down the valley, becoming increasingly feral and undomesticated. Her ivory sheath grows stained and wrinkled. Her bone-colored heels lose their sheen. She loses a tampon in her body for days. Her pink and pearly nail manicure becomes chipped over dirty fingernails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B. is plagued by a mysterious malady she calls “the carsickness.” Dating, working, applying her toilette as taught by her mother — none of it has relieved the ailment. The escape to the car, the movement, in some way, lessens her nausea. The carsickness seems to be a manifestation of anxiety, an extended panic attack, brought on by the dissonance between what society expects of B. (blonde, pretty, WASP-y with “movie-star looks”) and B.’s psychic inability, or unwillingness, to indulge in the privilege wrought by these gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daughtry, a laborer who makes extra money on the side cashing counterfeit checks, enters the picture, and B. finds a way out of the binary gendered straight-jacket — the choice between looseness and suffocation. But not in a romantic relationship with Daughtry. Instead, B.’s relief is found in the banks and in the searing heat of California’s Central Valley. Galm grew up in San Jose and lives in San Francisco, and has a native’s knowledge of the geography; the social and geographical constraints of San Francisco offer a perfect foil for the heat and isolation of the sunburned valley, and its bland, tired people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905587\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Galm.\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm.jpg 427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Galm.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>B. discovers a “cool and expansive” calm in the lobbies of the banks where she cashes her forfeited checks. “I like the banks,” B. tells a young hippie hitchhiker who becomes Thelma to her Louise for a brief, combustible few days. “I like the colors and the furniture and the people. They’re safe and quiet. It’s not for the money.” The banks morph into addiction, the only place where the carsickness lets up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it’s unclear whether B. is mentally ill or if she’s a violently inclined subversive — “a twisted Donna Reed show,” as the young hitchhiker says. What’s certain is that Galm, in a similar fashion to Doris Lessing’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138281027/the-golden-notebook\">The Golden Notebook\u003c/a>, has powerfully captured a woman’s righteous resistance in the face of a rapaciously gendered society. “There’s an order to things,” B.’s mother, with her obsessive attention to how things \u003cem>should be\u003c/em>, tells her daughter, “and I think it would help if you followed it.” These directives are metaphorically tossed out the Mustang window as B. flies past the tomato fields, almond orchards, and dusty truck-stops of the dry valley, towards the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23786\">Sutter Buttes\u003c/a>, the site of her unhinging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same way I’ve rooted for other doomed women from literature (Anna Karenina and Bertha from \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea\">Wide Sargasso Sea\u003c/a> come to mind), I found myself rooting for B. But is she really doomed? Or is she free? “It would not matter who was in the pink adobe house with her, she did not want to live with any of them. She did not want to make fish soups. She did not want to be taken care of or to fix her hair. She wanted only to get away, to start over, to undo something that seemed to bind her,” B. realizes in a new Motel 6 somewhere off the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final destination: her own unvarnished truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Coming to Town: Jonathan Franzen\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905589\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity.jpg\" alt=\"'Purity,' by Jonathan Franzen.\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905589\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Purity,’ by Jonathan Franzen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of controversial and complicated women characters: Jonathan Franzen makes several appearances in the Bay Area soon. His latest novel \u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/purity/\">Purity\u003c/a> — which is partially set in Oakland and Santa Cruz — has already stirred up \u003ca href=\"http://thehairpin.com/2015/08/so-much-purity-so-close-to-home/\">satirical \u003c/a>responses to reviewers enamored of Franzen’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122443/sex-lies-and-internet\">Masterful Intellectual Brawn. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever one might think of Franzen, he has a gift for capturing the intense, complicated, messy nature of the modern family. He appears at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/offsite-ticketed-jonathan-franzen-purity\">Bookshop Santa Cruz \u003c/a>on Aug. 31, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jonathan-franzen-purity\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in Corte Madera on Sept. 1, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/event/copperfields-presents-jonathan-franzen\">Santa Rosa High School Auditorium \u003c/a>on Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>My Bookish Bay Area\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With Summer Brennan, author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://theoysterwar.com/\">The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics and the Future of Wilderness in America.\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Favorite Bay Area bookstores?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorite Bay Area bookstore is Point Reyes Books, but I also have fond memories of Book Passage in Corte Madera and Booksmith in San Anselmo. I’m still mourning the loss of Oliver’s Books, also in San Anselmo. I still have some antique volumes of 19th-century poetry that I bought there as a teenager. My favorite is an illustrated Keats collection with the inscription: “Merry Christmas to the School Ma’am from the Wandering Critic, 1893.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you lived in Point Reyes, did you have a favorite cafe or spot for writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early mornings I liked to sit and write at either Bovine Bakery or the Pine Cone Diner. Both were great for early morning writing because neither had internet, so I could work without interrupting myself. In the afternoons, I’d write at the Blackbird Cafe when it was still there, because I could sit at the window and watch the tide come in to Tomales Bay. I also liked to write at Drake’s Beach. It’s a great place if you want to “write” by talking into a tape recorder as you walk, as I did sometimes. Other times I’d sit in my car parked right at the beach’s edge and look out over the waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/sbrennan-e1439616141407.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Brennan. (Photo: Patrick O'Connor)\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10896829\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Brennan. (Photo: Patrick O’Connor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you find any literary community in Point Reyes or San Francisco either as a child, or later, as an adult?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I moved away from the Bay Area after high school, but while I was growing up I found literary inspiration from great and dedicated teachers as well as from my friends, all of whom were rather bookish. When I came back home for summer vacations as a college student, I found a women’s poetry group that met in Larkspur that was a very fruitful environment for getting work done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where did you go to find writing or story inspiration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cadence and imagery, I like walking in nature, especially along those long beaches in Point Reyes National Seashore. For stories and connective insight, nothing beats the library. I found some real treasures in the Marin County Civic Center Library and at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896830\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 327px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/oysterwar_.jpg\" alt=\"'The Oyster War,' by Summer Brennan.\" width=\"327\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10896830\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Oyster War,’ by Summer Brennan.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Favorite Bay Area writers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many great Bay Area writers! I’ve loved books by Isabel Allende, Tamim Ansary, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Karen Joy Fowler, Jane Hirschfield, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack London, Michael Pollan, Amy Tan, Vendela Vida, John Steinbeck, Christopher Moore. I have to say though that my favorite Bay Area writer is Rebecca Solnit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Any favorite bit of local literary lore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love that Jack London was an \u003ca href=\"http://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/a-raid-on-the-oyster-pirates\">oyster pirate\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Summer Brennan appears at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/summer-brennan-oyster-war\">Book Passage\u003c/a> Corte Madera on Sept. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ptreyesbooks.com/events/summer-brennan\">Point Reyes Books\u003c/a> on Sept. 3, \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksinc.net/event/summer-brennan-books-inc-opera-plaza\">Books Inc. Opera Plaza \u003c/a>on Sept. 9, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/\">Copperfield’s Books Petaluma\u003c/a> on Sept. 10\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s Note: This week we welcome the debut of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/the-spine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Spine\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a new book column covering the literary scene of the Bay Area in reviews, interviews, guides, event previews and more. Guiding us is award-winning writer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/author/lclark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leilani Clark\u003c/a>, who’s contributed to Mother Jones, Civil Eats, Time Magazine, the Rumpus and the North Bay Bohemian, in addition to KQED. Running biweekly, \u003c/em>The Spine\u003cem> is your smart check-in on what’s happening in the region’s book world.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Review: ‘Into the Valley’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Into the Valley\u003c/em>, the debut novel from Ruth Galm, opens with a 30 year-old secretary from San Francisco cashing a counterfeit check in a Central Valley bank. The woman, named B., has landed in the hot, dry agricultural region — in a new Mustang paid for by check fraud — after hearing a man on the city bus mumbling about the “long table of land just beyond the mountains and the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“She imagined in this long unvarying plane, all the contradictions of the city might fall away. That its bareness would reveal something, provide an answer she had failed to acquire. A place of unvarnished truth to which she must go.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905586\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 333px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/intothevalley.jpg\" alt=\"'Into the Valley,' by Ruth Galm.\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905586\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Into the Valley,’ by Ruth Galm.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>B. doesn’t know what she wants. She’s foundering, suffocated by the concepts of femininity available in 1967, the year the novel takes place. B. slashed her given name, Beverly — with its “lift at the end like a promise made without her agreement” — down to one syllable while in college. Still, she’s dismayed by the strange new breed of young women on the streets of San Francisco, with their “grass-smoking and greasy hair, the idea of a counterculture, the attraction of some newer freer community, opposing itself to the mainstream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, B. mourns the era when women wore gloves, combed their hair, and wore lipstick and dresses, like her own from I. Magnin. Yet these material trappings are the first to go as B. drives up and down the valley, becoming increasingly feral and undomesticated. Her ivory sheath grows stained and wrinkled. Her bone-colored heels lose their sheen. She loses a tampon in her body for days. Her pink and pearly nail manicure becomes chipped over dirty fingernails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B. is plagued by a mysterious malady she calls “the carsickness.” Dating, working, applying her toilette as taught by her mother — none of it has relieved the ailment. The escape to the car, the movement, in some way, lessens her nausea. The carsickness seems to be a manifestation of anxiety, an extended panic attack, brought on by the dissonance between what society expects of B. (blonde, pretty, WASP-y with “movie-star looks”) and B.’s psychic inability, or unwillingness, to indulge in the privilege wrought by these gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daughtry, a laborer who makes extra money on the side cashing counterfeit checks, enters the picture, and B. finds a way out of the binary gendered straight-jacket — the choice between looseness and suffocation. But not in a romantic relationship with Daughtry. Instead, B.’s relief is found in the banks and in the searing heat of California’s Central Valley. Galm grew up in San Jose and lives in San Francisco, and has a native’s knowledge of the geography; the social and geographical constraints of San Francisco offer a perfect foil for the heat and isolation of the sunburned valley, and its bland, tired people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905587\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Galm.\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905587\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm.jpg 427w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/ruth-galm-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Galm.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>B. discovers a “cool and expansive” calm in the lobbies of the banks where she cashes her forfeited checks. “I like the banks,” B. tells a young hippie hitchhiker who becomes Thelma to her Louise for a brief, combustible few days. “I like the colors and the furniture and the people. They’re safe and quiet. It’s not for the money.” The banks morph into addiction, the only place where the carsickness lets up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it’s unclear whether B. is mentally ill or if she’s a violently inclined subversive — “a twisted Donna Reed show,” as the young hitchhiker says. What’s certain is that Galm, in a similar fashion to Doris Lessing’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138281027/the-golden-notebook\">The Golden Notebook\u003c/a>, has powerfully captured a woman’s righteous resistance in the face of a rapaciously gendered society. “There’s an order to things,” B.’s mother, with her obsessive attention to how things \u003cem>should be\u003c/em>, tells her daughter, “and I think it would help if you followed it.” These directives are metaphorically tossed out the Mustang window as B. flies past the tomato fields, almond orchards, and dusty truck-stops of the dry valley, towards the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23786\">Sutter Buttes\u003c/a>, the site of her unhinging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same way I’ve rooted for other doomed women from literature (Anna Karenina and Bertha from \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea\">Wide Sargasso Sea\u003c/a> come to mind), I found myself rooting for B. But is she really doomed? Or is she free? “It would not matter who was in the pink adobe house with her, she did not want to live with any of them. She did not want to make fish soups. She did not want to be taken care of or to fix her hair. She wanted only to get away, to start over, to undo something that seemed to bind her,” B. realizes in a new Motel 6 somewhere off the highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final destination: her own unvarnished truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Coming to Town: Jonathan Franzen\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905589\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 298px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Purity.jpg\" alt=\"'Purity,' by Jonathan Franzen.\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10905589\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Purity,’ by Jonathan Franzen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of controversial and complicated women characters: Jonathan Franzen makes several appearances in the Bay Area soon. His latest novel \u003ca href=\"http://us.macmillan.com/purity/\">Purity\u003c/a> — which is partially set in Oakland and Santa Cruz — has already stirred up \u003ca href=\"http://thehairpin.com/2015/08/so-much-purity-so-close-to-home/\">satirical \u003c/a>responses to reviewers enamored of Franzen’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122443/sex-lies-and-internet\">Masterful Intellectual Brawn. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever one might think of Franzen, he has a gift for capturing the intense, complicated, messy nature of the modern family. He appears at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/event/offsite-ticketed-jonathan-franzen-purity\">Bookshop Santa Cruz \u003c/a>on Aug. 31, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/jonathan-franzen-purity\">Book Passage\u003c/a> in Corte Madera on Sept. 1, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/event/copperfields-presents-jonathan-franzen\">Santa Rosa High School Auditorium \u003c/a>on Sept. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>My Bookish Bay Area\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With Summer Brennan, author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://theoysterwar.com/\">The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics and the Future of Wilderness in America.\u003c/a>‘\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Favorite Bay Area bookstores?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My favorite Bay Area bookstore is Point Reyes Books, but I also have fond memories of Book Passage in Corte Madera and Booksmith in San Anselmo. I’m still mourning the loss of Oliver’s Books, also in San Anselmo. I still have some antique volumes of 19th-century poetry that I bought there as a teenager. My favorite is an illustrated Keats collection with the inscription: “Merry Christmas to the School Ma’am from the Wandering Critic, 1893.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you lived in Point Reyes, did you have a favorite cafe or spot for writing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early mornings I liked to sit and write at either Bovine Bakery or the Pine Cone Diner. Both were great for early morning writing because neither had internet, so I could work without interrupting myself. In the afternoons, I’d write at the Blackbird Cafe when it was still there, because I could sit at the window and watch the tide come in to Tomales Bay. I also liked to write at Drake’s Beach. It’s a great place if you want to “write” by talking into a tape recorder as you walk, as I did sometimes. Other times I’d sit in my car parked right at the beach’s edge and look out over the waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/sbrennan-e1439616141407.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Brennan. (Photo: Patrick O'Connor)\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10896829\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summer Brennan. (Photo: Patrick O’Connor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you find any literary community in Point Reyes or San Francisco either as a child, or later, as an adult?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I moved away from the Bay Area after high school, but while I was growing up I found literary inspiration from great and dedicated teachers as well as from my friends, all of whom were rather bookish. When I came back home for summer vacations as a college student, I found a women’s poetry group that met in Larkspur that was a very fruitful environment for getting work done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where did you go to find writing or story inspiration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cadence and imagery, I like walking in nature, especially along those long beaches in Point Reyes National Seashore. For stories and connective insight, nothing beats the library. 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Everyone from Amy Poehler to Lena Dunham to Amanda Palmer has written one, usually with a message about saying yes to opportunities. Now, it’s Felicia Day’s turn, with \u003cem>You’re Never Weird On The Internet (Almost)\u003c/em> (Touchstone; $25.99).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Day, who appears at multiple book events in the Bay Area this month, is internet famous. While many might not know her work, she’s popular online for her roles in Joss Whedon projects like \u003cem>Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog\u003c/em> and for creating the web series \u003cem>The Guild\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her memoir, Day uses the same nervous, funny voice used in her online videos. One second she’s on the verge of a freakout, the next she’s doing cartwheels on the page with all-caps and exclamation points. The book is peppered with Photoshopped images and humorous insights into her childhood: “Growing up without being judged by other kids allowed me to be okay with liking things no one else liked,” she writes. “How else could a twelve-year-old girl be so well versed in dragon lore and film noir?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Day isn’t weird so much as interesting. A home-schooled Southerner who moved around a lot, she describes a laissez-faire childhood that included computer games, fantasy books, and visiting Civil War memorial sites. (“It’s super fun to roll down a grassy hill where thousands of Confederate bodies are buried,” she writes.) She’s also smart, almost preciously so; upon learning she had to pass her SATs to get into college, she completed 100 practice tests over five days and got an almost perfect score. She enrolled in college at age 16 with a double major in math and violin, and graduated as valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10896303\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10896303\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/final-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Day's new memoir.\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/final-cover.jpg 425w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/final-cover-400x602.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/final-cover-398x600.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Day’s new memoir.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not that Day wants you to know these things. Her accomplishments are buried underneath self-deprecating humor that seems almost pathological. Here’s how she tells you about her musical skills: “Surprisingly, people didn’t invite the sixteen-year-old violin prodigy to keggers.” Hang on, she was a \u003cem>violin prodigy\u003c/em>? Talk about burying the lede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear Day tell it, she spent her entire acting career doing commercials and playing bit parts as a secretary. There’s little mention of her work in \u003cem>Buffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog\u003c/em>. If you want insider Joss Whedon information, you’re out of luck here (though Whedon does write a flattering forward for the book).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Day \u003cem>does\u003c/em> go into detail about is her addiction to the video game \u003cem>World of Warcraft\u003c/em>. At the height of her addiction, Day played the game to the determent of everything else. “I stopped going to acting classes. I stopped performing improv. Or doing plays. Or socializing with real-life human beings.” As is often the case with this book, Day glosses over the effect this addiction had on her life and career, or what it meant to her on a deeper level. But she does open up about how it led to her making \u003cem>The Guild\u003c/em>. She takes the reader through the initial idea for the series, her struggles writing it, making and promoting the first video, and how all that DIY grit led to her carving out a more satisfying career for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book ends with a chapter on GamerGate, the ongoing controversy about video-game reviewing that’s led to several women being attacked online. Day was one of them, and the situation sounds terrifying. It started when one of her musical videos elicited a “tidal wave of bile.” There were “hundreds and hundreds of comments, the depravity of which even jaded little me had never seen.” When she posted an essay about the situation, trolls reacted by putting her address online. 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They’re the zombies on Jones street and the creeping undead on San Pablo Avenue. They’re annoyances and smells and things in the way of rich people walking down the sidewalk. They made the poor neighborhoods interesting so the wealthy moved in and now they’re the scourge of the same streets.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While much of the book seems like a barely disguised chance for Sinister himself to undermine the millennial yuppies who’ve taken control of his town, it does contain some bright, funny moments — and classic down-the-rabbit-hole drug fantasies in the spirit of the best of Hunter S. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland has a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/teens/events-programs/youth-poet-laureate-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Poet Laureate.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is Tova Ricardo, a 16 year old junior at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.bentleyschool.net/page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bentley School\u003c/a> in Lafayette. Ricardo was selected Saturday evening after a reading at\u003ca href=\"http://www.proartsgallery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pro-Arts Gallery\u003c/a> in Oakland across from Oakland City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo was one of seven semi-finalists at the reading, one of the opening events for \u003ca href=\"http://beastcrawl.weebly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland’s Beast Literary Crawl\u003c/a>. The room was packed with more than a hundred family members and poetry lovers as Ricardo and fellow Oakland teens read and chanted angry and jubilant poems about such themes as family, immigration, and how black lives matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10835871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10835871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"16 year old Litzy Castillo, a student at MetWest High School, thrills the crowd with her poem\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2502-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">16 year old Litzy Castillo, a student at MetWest High School, thrills the crowd with her poem \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The youth poet laureate program, begun in 2012, is sponsored by the writing training organization \u003ca href=\"http://youthspeaks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youth Speaks\u003c/a> and the Oakland Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo read a poem that was a tribute to her grandfather, a Korean war veteran, and his tiger tattoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought of the tiger tattoo that flaunted its paws across the forearms of bronze steel muscles that replicated scribbly lines to the six year old instead of contorted rivers,” Ricardo read. “The tiger tattoo who belonged to the southern rugged fields of southern rugged men that roared as a distraction at the family dining table as the seven year old spilled the rice and beans in the midst of admiring the ancient artwork.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf presented Ricardo with a scholarship check for $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10835873\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10835873\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499-1180x885.jpg\" alt='Ericson Amaya reading his poem about immigration, \"Harriet Tubman was our first coyote.\"' width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/IMG_2499-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ericson Amaya reading his poem about immigration, “Harriet Tubman was our first coyote.” \u003ccite>(Cy Musiker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poetry has been the one thing that has kept me sane on this crazy crazy planet,” Ricardo, the winning poet, said in a brief acceptance speech. “And I just want us, the youth, to just change this world, to go out there and fight this crazy, crazy system that’s trying to knock all of us down and just speak our truth, because that’s the only thing that’s going to save us. We’re going to save us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo’s writing teacher, Peter Hagen, was at the ceremony. Hagen said Ricardo had only taken his class once before becoming earning the title. “She just ripped the doors off,” Hagen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other youth poets performed their works alongside Ricardo. 18 year old Emerson Amaya, a student at Coliseum College Prep Academy, read a poem that he described as being about “the black brown unity that Oakland really needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most powerful thing is when we have young folks together sharing space and telling stories,” Youth Speaks Teaching Artist Gabriel Cortez said. Cortez who emceed the reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo takes over youth poet laureate duties from the 2014 laureate Sophie Elkin, a student at Oakland School for the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Public Library and Youth Speaks will schedule more readings for Ricardo this coming year at schools and senior centers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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