Speculative fiction is able to imagine interaction with the other not as something horrific but as something positive for all.

This madcap novel is a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters.

Days after Ana Rodriguez started working for the Belles, feeding the chickens had become a part of the morning routine: her bosses’ youngest daughter, Jordan, would fetch a scoop of pellets from th…

At the core of this collection is Wade’s complex relationship with his father, whose presence is at once both painful and familiar.

The short story “Anyone Can Do It” in Manuel Muñoz’s collection, the February CBC selection, illuminates immigrant hardship.

Pt. Reyes author Samantha Kimmey's debut novel, the The Extremities!, plunges readers into the world of a newspaper reporter who loses the ability to type.

In Which Heidi Kasa Talks Art School, Motherhood and How To Create During the Horrors

Plus, in other new Berkeley books: Michael Pollan on consciousness — and a deeply researched novel about two famed women pirates of history.

M. Olivas is an alumna of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop and the 2023 Under the Volcano Writers Residency. She received her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from t...

Experimental forms on friendship, fluid sexuality, and playful love.

I expected an accompaniment to my travels; what I received from Yellowcake was far more than that. Ann Cummins’s words led me to each of my destinations, introducing the various landscapes before I ar...

the Parker Sub doesn't want those things. It likes simple. Plain. Which is why it's something a simple and plain man has to ask for. But I am a Parker. And I do want those: the pepper, the onions, the...

In "Sky Daddy," Kate Folk takes forbidden romance to new heights

EVER SINCE VERNON WAS A TEENAGER, HE WAS GOOD AT SLEEPING. SO GOOD in fact, that his mother was scared he’d never wake up when he went to bed. Vernon held the record for the longest sleep ever taken i...

San Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.”

Another radically funny comedy from one of America’s best satiric novelists.

To our dearest Sycamore/Willows family and friends, As you may kno… Liz Ryan needs your support for Rally for Tim's recovery and help Sycamore and Willows

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In her brilliantly conceived and eloquent new linked story collection, In This Ravishing World, Nina Schuyler offers us a “loud and bright and unrelenting” chorus of voices calling us to rise above…

By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.

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