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Been here, done gone: Arhoolie Records’ Chris Strachwitz snapped our musical heritage

Lou Fancher - November 7, 2023

Beyond his precious recordings, a new book celebrates the documentarian's photos of essential roots musicians

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Beep, beep: Meet your Muni drivers, colorfully illustrated

Marke B. - November 2, 2023

New art book 'Muni Is My Ride' captures the deeply committed, fundamentally human side of our daily public transport

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Booker winner Anne Enright: ‘I don’t play hide-and-seek, I play hide-and-hide’

Lou Fancher - October 15, 2023

The Dublin author on new 'The Wren, The Wren,' which centers the women left behind by a garrulous poet

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A 24-hour celebration of banned queer books? Come get ‘Read for Filth’

Marke B. - October 4, 2023

Fabulosa Books in the Castro hosts a full, affirming day of literature, storytelling, performance, and more for Books Not Bans

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‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider does not want to be your favorite trans person on TV

Lou Fancher - September 29, 2023

On the eve of her appearance at Porchlight Storytelling's Litquake edition, the beloved game show guru and memoir author isn't holding back.

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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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