DEPARTMENT OF MAKE BELIEVE: WRITING PROJECT FOR KIDS

DEPARTMENT OF MAKE BELIEVE: WRITING PROJECT FOR KIDS

Entering the Department of Make Believe has a peculiar effect on people. “It’s almost like a weird therapy,” Tavia Stewart-Streit, Chapter 510 co-founder and chief…

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HOWARD JUNKER’S 12 BOOKS OFFER EDITOR'S TAKE ON MEMOIR

HOWARD JUNKER’S 12 BOOKS OFFER EDITOR’S TAKE ON MEMOIR

Five years ago, at the age of 70, Howard Junker retired from Zyzzyva, the literary magazine he founded in 1985. In need of something to…

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HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR CELEBRATES PEOPLE'S HISTORY, FUTURE

HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR CELEBRATES PEOPLE’S HISTORY, FUTURE

Too often, it is difficult to feel — much less mobilize — the power of the civic voice amid the forces of government and the…

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THE BASEMENT SERIES: Creating Community for Emerging Writers

THE BASEMENT SERIES: Creating Community for Emerging Writers

What started three years ago as an annual four-day juried writers’ retreat at Mayacamas Ranch in Calistoga, called Lit Camp, has become a nonprofit that…

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THE SERPENT POWER OF POETICS: David Meltzer

THE SERPENT POWER OF POETICS: David Meltzer

David Meltzer is a poet and a time traveler. He came here from 1937, and remembers feeling “doomed by the atom bomb” when he was…

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