July 19, 2018

The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »

journalism

NYTimes tallies tsunami of Trump tomes; why John Dean's book Is different — Mike Lindgren
AP rules "Black" should now be capitalized; change seen as long overdue — Mike Lindgren
Book critics org roiled by race controversy; prez, board members resign — Mike Lindgren
"C" is for "Censorship"; CIA deploys iron-fisted approval process: sycophants only, please! — Mike Lindgren

The Ballad of the Sad Walt Whitman Residence

Ian Dreiblatt

In the beautiful American city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards and the future location of what will be the five boroughs’ first Wegman’s (we await you all breathless, o noblest grocery chain), between the crook… Read more »

Literary hotels make for great latter-half-of-summer vacays

Michael Barron

Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to board in some swanky library suite or bookstore nook. Well, now you kind of can. Literary hotels are beginning to pop up… Read more »

The Labo and the library

Michael Seidlinger

Have you heard of Nintendo’s latest bold interactive experiment, Labo? Like most Nintendo innovations, it breaks down into amazingly simple ingredients that, when combined, become something else entirely. In Labo’s… Read more »

Melville House Books

The East Bay Express’s publisher resigns

Susan Rella