Lit Archives - 48 hills

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Litquake turns the page with a new leader, who tells us what to catch

Lou Fancher - September 22, 2023

Executive Director Norah Piehl on what it's like joining the sprawling literary extravaganza, and who's top of her reading list

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Something rotten: Nazi-occupied Denmark through young eyes in Richard Kluger’s latest novel

Lou Fancher - September 19, 2023

Seasoned journalist explores a country's moral quandry via historical fiction of 'Hamlet's Children.'

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Budding again at 30, classic ‘Golden Gate Gardening’ takes on new climate challenges

Joshua Rotter - September 18, 2023

Updated edition of vegetation sage Pam Peirce's manual adapts to a changing Bay Area with essential tips

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Corporate propaganda has cost 90 percent of US residents $47 trillion. Here’s why

Tim Redmond - September 15, 2023

Eminent science historian Naomi Oreskes talks about business, government, and her groundbreaking new book, 'The Big Myth.'

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Ann Patchett on new ‘Tom Lake’: ‘We experience love in different ways at different times in life’

Lou Fancher - September 13, 2023

The lauded author's 'pandemic novel' sequesters a family on a farm in Traverse City, MI—and was written on a treadmill

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‘Weed’ sparks up candid cannabis education for young people—and the rest of us

Marke B. - September 10, 2023

Caitlin Donohue's latest book for teens takes a big picture view of cannabis policy and culture in the Americas

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The Shortish Project celebrates mighty impact of tiny tomes

Lou Fancher - August 29, 2023

Outpost19's lit database and publishing platform features 600 novellas by star and rising authors alike.

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Shipwrecks and scurvy: ‘The Wager’ reveals human frailty beneath European colonialism

Lou Fancher - August 23, 2023

Novelist David Grann's tale of 18th-century maritime disaster adds to his record of relentless truth-telling, rats and all

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In ‘Leaning Toward Light,’ tending to life through a garden of poems

Marke B. - August 22, 2023

Tess Taylor's anthology gathers verse giants and local greenhorns, recipes and short essays into an almanac of living

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

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