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The Narrows of the Book
On the compression of a project and its re-expansion IRL (also contained herein: my March book tour dates)
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Notes on My Book, The Pacific Circuit, in the Present Moment
an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history…
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A life project, a simple conversation
"every person on this earth is a monstrously huge landscape, and yet, we can drop into any of it with a simple incantation, the right string of words…
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The Overlooked Lesson of The Parable of the Sower
On the power of the big dream in Octavia Butler's prescient novel
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On Annie's Annuals Closing
And what it's like to lose a place you love
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A mulberry leaf
Come look at this with me
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Soviet Pomegranates
and the rest of the 20th century
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