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

"C" is for "Censorship"; CIA deploys iron-fisted approval process: sycophants only, please! — Mike Lindgren
Anonymous anti-Trump author censured: Hachette holds hard line — Mike Lindgren
Anonymous Trump critic to publish book; secrecy abounds in unusual arrangement — Mike Lindgren
The guy in charge of keeping undocumented youth detained is writing an anti-abortion book — Michael Barron

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