A while back, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a terrific profile of Allison Reid and John Evans, owners of Diesel Books in Oakland and Malibu. Ilana DeBare’s story looks at what it takes to survive these days as an indy bookseller, and the piece is such a good read (informative, too) that it’s worth [...]
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Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Four for the calendar in March
Local interest on Thursday, March 8: Three authors discuss their Oakland-oriented book projects. Speaking: Erica Mailman, Oakland’s Neighborhoods; Jeff Norman, Temescal Legacies; and Ly Nguyen, contributor to As Is, an anthology of visual and literary art by the Vietnamese Artist Collective. 6-8 p.m. Oakland Main Library. More info.
Acting out on Friday, March 9: The New [...]
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Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff and Jane Fleming at Penguin Press for Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer “about the author’s urban farm in downtown Oakland, where she keeps ducks, chickens, rabbits, pigs, fruits, and vegetables, and the triumphs and travails of living the rural life in the [...]
Four for the calendar in March
Local interest on Thursday, March 8: Three authors discuss their Oakland-oriented book projects. Speaking: Erica Mailman, Oakland’s Neighborhoods; Jeff Norman, Temescal Legacies; and Ly Nguyen, contributor to As Is, an anthology of visual and literary art by the Vietnamese Artist Collective. 6-8 p.m. Oakland Main Library. More info.
Acting out on Friday, March 9: The New [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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