CHICKEN JOHN RINALDI: what if there were no consequences?

Well, you would end up with some good stories. Of that I am certain. You’d probably have much better stories than the ones you’re telling…

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WEEK IN REVIEW: banned books and the right to assemble

(Evan Karp) “Art is anything that is pointless and intentional,” says Chicken John in The Book of the IS, vol 1: Fail… to Win: Essays in…

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(Evan Karp) “If you’re going to write a book, you might as well swing for the fence; you might as well just go find something…

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Rebecca Solnit
Harper's columnist Rebecca Solnit returns to City Arts for her new book "Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (And Essays)." Author of many books, including "The Mother of All Questions," "Men Explain Things to Me," "Hope in the Dark" and "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas," Solnit is in conversation with Astra Taylor […]
Jill Abramson with Angie Coiro
The former executive editor of the New York Times--the first female to hold the position in the company's 160-year history--Jill Abramson visits This is Now with Angie Coiro to discuss her new book "Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts," for which she followed four companies--The New York Times, The […]
Tommy Orange
One of the best books of 2018, Oakland-based Tommy Orange's debut novel "There There" reached number one on the SF Chronicle bestseller list and is one of three titles shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. The book asks readers to examine their assumptions about who Native Americans are and how and where […]
Marlon James
Bookshop Santa Cruz hosts the Booker Prize and American Book Award-winning author of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" for his anticipated new novel "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," which NPR has already said "will come to be seen as a classic of our times." James reads from and discusses the book, which is the first […]