Our book club meets monthly at the library to discuss books set in Oakland and the Bay Area or by Bay Area authors. We select our books from a variety of genres and eras so you’re sure to find somethi...

How many rivers do we have to cross/before we can talk to the boss

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The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that

San Francisco Bay Area Industrial Workers of the World General Membership Branch

Two years ago today, the Biden Administration desecrated Easter Sunday with a “transgender” message that elevated radical leftist ideology over faith,

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Three investigators pull back the mask on San Francisco's postcard-perfection. Dark, character-driven thrillers by Mac Powell and Dan Rhone.

It is a bad practice for family members to profit from their ties to a vice-president or president, but there is zero evidence that Joe Biden ever did anything to directly benefit his son or brothers ...

What Comes Out of the Cabinet at the Water Closet

Owen Hill • Foreword by Jonathan Lethem Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.

Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes the California wealth tax measure and supports one nationally. But there’s another tax-the-rich measure on the state ballot.

Trump Media & ⁠Technology Group has in recent weeks also pitched a discounted plan of $60,000 per month if the firms sign up for a three-year plan.

What it means to take that seriously.

Join us for an author talk with Gary Phillips surrounding his latest novel, The Haul: A Heist Novel.

Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial

The segregated American media spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July praising the founding fathers and paying tribute to other American heroes.

slightly sentimental thoughts on the trade

Guest essay by Kimn Neilson

Administration had claimed algae at Lincoln Memorial pool would be cleared after the renovation, but it has proliferated amid warm weather

Guest essay by Kimn Neilson

Guest essay by Kimn Neilson

Why did Elon Musk spend hundreds of millions helping Donald Trump return to power?

working the book trade part 5

scouts prospectors and trappers bring rare editions: a life in books

adventures in the book trade part 3

part two

adventures in "the trade" part one

adventures in "the trade" part one

Poet, Sleuth, and Scout: The Noir World of Clay Blackburn Owen Hill’s The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story brings together three novels and a short story featuring the poet-sleuth-book scout Clay Bl...

Americans are fed up with an establishment that has abandoned the working class. It’s time to organize for change

These Foolish Things Remind Me of Other Foolish Things

Leave the military.

“This is in a way the anger presidency.  Anger defines Mr. Trump’s decade on the political stage.  Mr. Trump is not the first president with a temper.