Lit Archives - 48 hills

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Author Kate Bowler’s cancer memoir “No Cure” is—terrifically witty?

Lou Fancher - August 14, 2022

Humor and honesty abound as the book's heroine documents her health battle.

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Join 48 Hills publisher Marke B. for free ‘Youth Gone Wild’ talk online, Tue/26!

48 Hills - July 25, 2022

Samantha Durbin of 'Raver Girl,' José Vadi of 'Inter State,' and East Bay Yesterday's Liam O'Donoghue talk local youth culture and rebellion

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Flowers for queen mothers: New book pays tribute to ‘Legends of Drag’

Joshua Rotter - July 18, 2022

Authors capture 'palpable rawness, inimitable refinement, infinite permutations' of queens of a certain age

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Handsome robots, encroaching void: Kate Folk charts dystopic dating in ‘Out There’

Angela Hui - June 30, 2022

The local author's android characters, designed to seduce women and steal their data, are coming soon to a screen near you

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It’s a rough time to be proud of the US. In ‘Fight Like Hell,’ Kim Kelly finds a way

Caitlin Donohue - June 28, 2022

The labor reporter's first book is a historical journey showing workers that they've always forged their own path forward

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Lessons from a fearful fido: Meredith May’s ‘Loving Edie’

Lou Fancher - June 14, 2022

It may be packaged as a dive into doggy world, but the Bay Area author's second book is all about accepting limits.

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‘Booth’ makes most of its historical fiction in tale of assassin and his kin

Lou Fancher - June 9, 2022

Author Karen Joy Fowler renders the story of John Wilkes' family as that of our country itself.

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Nursing poems while fighting police terror: Asantewaa Boykin’s ‘Love, Lyric, and Liberation’

Emily Wilson - May 4, 2022

The Oakland-Sacramento writer, activist, and emergency room nurse debuts a collection of urgent, 'hungry' poems.

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Passion for degraded materials: a conversational bibliography of Dodie Bellamy

Johnny Ray Huston - May 3, 2022

From 'Feminine Hijinx' to 'Bee Reaved,' the quintessential SF writer talks art, life, 'Frozen,' E.T., and grief through her published works.

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What sparks creativity? ‘Inspired’ inspects the tinder and the flame

Lou Fancher - April 19, 2022

Pulitzer-winning author Matt Richtel examines the journey creative people take to arrive at 'a-ha!'—with some surprises along the way.

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