Making Nice by Matt Sumell
In Matt Sumell’s blazing first book, our hero Alby flails wildly against the world around him―he punches his sister (she deserved it), “unprotectos” broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and… Continue reading
In Matt Sumell’s blazing first book, our hero Alby flails wildly against the world around him―he punches his sister (she deserved it), “unprotectos” broads (they deserved it and liked it), gets drunk and… Continue reading
Robert, an Oakland cop, still can’t let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she’s disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and… Continue reading
For more than four decades, Dave Williams and his wife Reba White formed what is certainly the most comprehensive and adventurous treasury of American prints ever assembled by private collectors. In the 6,000… Continue reading
Hinge is a book fixated on contingency and what it might mean to live in it. These meditative lyrics are radically, at times painfully aware that anything could happen …. This awareness walks… Continue reading
Veterinarian Geneva Novak understands the behavior of umpteen species—just not her mother, Helen. Geneva fled her childhood home—and her mother’s vodka-fueled disasters—without a backward glance. Twenty-five years later, Helen totals her car and… Continue reading
Darrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always struggled with his reading and writing skills. Darrell’s father, a single parent, couldn’t afford private… Continue reading
How do we know what’s real? That’s not a trick question: sensory science is increasingly finding that we don’t perceive reality: we create it through perception. In We Have the Technology, science writer… Continue reading
Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of… Continue reading
Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. Caught between generations and unmarried at… Continue reading
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