Books
Award-winning Bay Area librarian and TikTok star resigns
Mychal Threets, a Solano County librarian who went viral on Tik-Tok earlier this year, has...
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Johns Hopkins graduate’s new book delves into life with a menstrual mood disorder
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD is a menstruation-related mood disorder that, before Shalene Gupta received...
Why 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, Celeste Ng and Scott Turow co-wrote a novel
Douglas Preston explains the genesis of 'Fourteen Days,' a pandemic novel that aims support the...
Column: A new book on Blaxploitation movies celebrates it all, from Pam Grier to ‘Black Belt Jones’
Author Odie Henderson on Blaxploitation movies: "Like anything starting underground, once it goes mainstream it's...
What does it mean to live wild? The ‘real Indiana Jones’ wrote the book on it
Adventurer Rick Ridgeway, a former executive at Patagonia, details on-the-edge experiences.
‘Somebody Feed Phil’ star will make 2 Bay Area appearances
So he'll be here to talk, but will he stay for a banh mi and...
How California’s wildfires and a personal crisis sparked ‘The Last Fire Season’
Writing the book wasn't easy, according to Bay Area author Manjula Martin. “It was not...
Why the Bee Gees were like the Brontë Sisters and more from Bob Stanley’s new book
The musician and journalist is the author of “The Story of the Bee Gees: Children...
The Punisher’s skull logo turns up in all the wrong places — what its creator thinks about it now
You see the logo as a sticker on the back of big trucks and SUVs,...
New bookstore braves high rents and fire truck crashes to be part of Bay Area bookselling tradition
"We don't want people looking at their phones in here," the owner said. "We want...