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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 19/08/2026
Rounding out our @pauline2k.bsky.social's coverage of Oakland's West Edge Opera's summer season, American Apollo's score knows things its libretto doesn't: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/into-a-darke...
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Into a darkened back room
Gaps but no yawning at West Edge Opera's American Apollo.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 03/08/2026
ORB's opera critic, @pauline2k.bsky.social, reporting once again from the front lines of culture, West Edge Opera's production of The Turn of the Screw www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/an-endless-c...
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An endless complex
At Oakland's West Edge Opera, Henry James is a sick fuck.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 10/04/2026
The great @pauline2k.bsky.social unboxes the bay's synths: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/tracing-the-...
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Tracing the many paths of the analog synth
Theodore Gordon's “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America,” unboxed.
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Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
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Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Which lucky 2 @oaklandreviewofbooks.org friends are going to help me and @pauline2k.bsky.social and @marissaortegawelch.bsky.social win Litquake's literary trivia night on Monday? It's in Berkeley, another good reason for Oakland to show up and kick ass. www.eventbrite.com/e/litquake-a...
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Litquake and Berkeleyside Literary Pub Trivia: 2026 Double Feature
Our popular pub trivia is coming to you twice in 2026, both featuring Jeopardy! super champ Amy Schneider. Sign up for one or both nights!
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I wrote about what thirty years of sun damage did to my shelf at Oakland Review of Books.
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
another day on the artillery crew
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 02/01/2026
“Arachnids have book lungs,” said a passing man in another top hat. “Fight! Fight!” shouted a bystander. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sad-for-new-...
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Sad for New Year's
"Re-Animation," New Year’s Eve, Fruitvale warehouse
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You simply cannot believe how many words I have written about Aaron Cometbus' Electric Menorah, but really about the muralization of history, no, about Telegraph Avenue and capitalism (but actually about the sixties, my mom, and about mourning mourning): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...
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War is Over (Because UC Wants it)
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah," and Praising the Emptiness
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
as long as Timothée Chalamet has to play Krasznahorkai at some point this is fine
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I hadn't believed anyone could turn bela tarr's masterpiece into prose, until I saw what a real master of the Very Long Sentence was capable of. A salute to you, Mr K!
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I got to meet up again with my old collaborator Georg Büchner on assignment for ORB, and couldn’t have enjoyed it more.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/06/2025
No one asked for ORB, but then again, art is often unsolicited. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unsolicited-...
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Release party for "Unsolicited Drawings of Unsolicited Dick Pictures": An unsolicited report.
West Oakland, back in April.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 13/06/2025
As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things. But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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ORB \O/
The Oakland Review of Books is coming!
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 26/05/2025
A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-brick-buil...
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A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One
For the first Valkyrie game, my daughter and I took BART to Powell St, then followed a pathway of little basketball decals from the faregates into the new-ish Muni T line station, where you can flash ...
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/05/2025
A good day to pick up something from our east bay friends at Transit. EBB has Lauren Markham's Immemorial on the shelves: www.ebbooksellers.com/item/EKOgAN1... And from the back catalog, our feeling is that Axiomatic is a stone cold classic: www.transitbooks.org/books/axioma...
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Transit Books — Axiomatic
Maria Tumarkin National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New Yorker Best Book of 2019 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing...
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 06/05/2025
to be clear, here at \O/ we are Alcatraz truthers: John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris escaped. This business about being eaten by sharks is nonsense. There are great whites in the actual ocean but they come into the bay about as often as your west bay friends come to Oakland.
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Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she portrays herself as a spider. atem.metameat.net/2025/01/19/2...
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January 19, 2025
There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she...
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
the existence of chatbots implies the existence of chienbots
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ancilla bit @pauline2k.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
what kind of trash i am atem.metameat.net/2025/01/17/1...
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January 17, 2025
…and with his erratic, irregular gait, as if he had pebbles in his shoes, he would make his way to...
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