.Books & Literature

May 13, 2025

Lost & Found, Local Author’s Novel Rediscovers Jazz Age Muse

The work of the Lost Generation is every young writer’s first crush. And why not?  That oft romanticized era of expats, art and all that jazz, circa the 1920s, featured larger-than-life characters like Hemingway, who brawled and wrote; Fitzgerald, who juggled gin and genius and wrote; and Gertrude Stein, who...
May 21, 2024

Remembering ‘The Serial’ writer, Cyra McFadden

In November 1975, Cyra McFadden’s “The Serial,” a weekly satirical column capturing Marin’s self-indulgent ’70s, premiered on the pages...
May 7, 2024

‘Jukebox Empire’ at Book Passage

The truth will out is one of those maxims that puts an asterisk on family lore. The mechanism of...
Apr 2, 2024

The Bookstores of Marin

Marin County is home to a slew of authors, readers, poets, songwriters/singers and, naturally, book slingers whose job it...
Mar 13, 2024

Writer-in-Residence: Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende’s novels are a gift of literature for us all. When my wife, Jane, who is a huge...
Mar 6, 2024

Mapping Meaning: Author Lauren Markham in Mill Valley

As a container, the two-dimensional plane of the book page can’t typically hold enough multitudes for a project like...
Tommy Orange Writes Second Urban Native Novel
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Mar 5, 2024

Tommy Orange Writes Second Urban Native Novel

The difficulty in beginning a conversation with Oakland-based, New York Times best-selling novelist and writer Tommy Orange is deciding...
Feb 6, 2024

Reading for Valentine’s & Beyond

Whether someone is in a relationship, single or simply in love with a fictional character from that one book,...
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