- Arts & Culture, Books, Mar 27, 2002
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Choke's Palahniuk Speaks of Love
Who's Reading What Where?
- Arts & Culture, Books, Mar 26, 2008
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A Block, a Company, and a Region
This month in books, a master reporter, an annoying literary experiment, and a monumental writer.
- Arts & Culture, Books, May 14, 2008
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A Condemned Man's Fate Fuels Legal Thriller
Attorney Sheldon Siegel ponders life inside death row.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Feb 18, 2009
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A Critic's Life
David Thomson's memoir invokes '50s London, favorite films, and an absent father.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Oct 30, 2002
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A Damned Fine Time
Audiotaping the dead, philosophizing about the undead -- it's all in a day's work for Katherine Ramsland.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Sep 10, 2008
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A Genuine Funny Man
Brian Copeland, author of Not a Genuine Black Man, headlines the Walnut Creek LibraryFest.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Feb 27, 2002
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A Girl's World
She lived to tell the tale, and draw it too
- Arts & Culture, Books, Mar 13, 2013
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A Graphic Novel for People Who Don't Like Graphic Novels
Thien Pham's Sumo is great, though not necessarily in the way you might think.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Aug 12, 2009
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A Is for Acid, G is for Grok
John Bassett McCleary's hippie dictionary captures peace and love for posterity.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Jul 30, 2003
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A Kinder, Gentler Bookseller
Wal-Mart's buying -- and censoring -- power affects us all.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Feb 4, 2009
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A Lot of Executions
Yiyun Li's new novel examines the cost of human cruelty.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Nov 14, 2007
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A Magic Stick
Gene Luen Yang explores the agonies of otherness.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Feb 20, 2013
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A Man and His Plock
With Fight Song, San Francisco's Joshua Mohr enters uncharted territory: the suburbs.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Nov 18, 2009
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A Man, a Van, a Plan
Melanie Gideon charts a midlife crisis in The Slippery Year.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Dec 28, 2011
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A Peaceful Proposition
Rabbi Michael Lerner lays out a new plan for Middle East peace.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Feb 27, 2008
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A Prescient Slovene
In this month's East Bay book news, brains are cooked with cheese.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Oct 5, 2011
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A Rather Regal Peter S. Beagle
The World Fantasy Lifetime Achiever and The Last Unicorn author settles into Oakland.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Oct 25, 2006
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A Spell on You
It's their New Year, and they're not curling up with books by Dr. Phil.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Sep 28, 2005
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A Tale of a Fateful Trip
David Vann set sail ... for disaster.
- Arts & Culture, Books, Mar 27, 2002
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A Transsexual's Tale
Chris Bohjalian's novels just keep getting made into movies.
