Marthine Satris
@msatris.bsky.social
Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
www.heydaybooks.com
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Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca.
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
February 6, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca.
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm
@ Local Economy, Oakland
This is such an exceptional little essay
Jill Lepore writes about her post-college years spent in a communal house that lingered with the presence of a past roommate: the singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/28D0fg
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/28D0fg
Living in Tracy Chapman’s House
Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
This is such an exceptional little essay
Absolutely none of my phacelia seeds sprouted this year and so back to the nursery I go to get my blue flower fix.
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Absolutely none of my phacelia seeds sprouted this year and so back to the nursery I go to get my blue flower fix.
" I expect readers will be looking for imprints to trust in the slop future." -- @thelincoln.bsky.social in countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...
Publishers w/ reputations for producing quality work, who work w/ trusted authors & who cultivate enthusiasts of the house ethos & style is the way!
Publishers w/ reputations for producing quality work, who work w/ trusted authors & who cultivate enthusiasts of the house ethos & style is the way!
Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
countercraft.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
" I expect readers will be looking for imprints to trust in the slop future." -- @thelincoln.bsky.social in countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...
Publishers w/ reputations for producing quality work, who work w/ trusted authors & who cultivate enthusiasts of the house ethos & style is the way!
Publishers w/ reputations for producing quality work, who work w/ trusted authors & who cultivate enthusiasts of the house ethos & style is the way!
"Success is based on an individual’s intensity of connection to an artist. Intensity, not overall visibility, is what is driving culture." Sean deLone at dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-search... (h/t @thelincoln.bsky.social for linking)
The Search for What Sells Books, or The Failure of Institutions
The Washington Post, Geese, Sinners, Book Clubs, and What Makes Something "Work"
dearheadofmine.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Success is based on an individual’s intensity of connection to an artist. Intensity, not overall visibility, is what is driving culture." Sean deLone at dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-search... (h/t @thelincoln.bsky.social for linking)
Not only does @oaklandreviewofbooks.org have a calendar, we're also connoisseurs of other local calendars & recommend @coyotemedia.org's calendar for all your wide-ranging cultural & athletic & culinary & meet-cute needs -- this one's good through tomorrow: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
COYOTE Calendar: Feb 5-February 11
This week we've got dunes, vintage animation, fonts, and paper fruit.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Not only does @oaklandreviewofbooks.org have a calendar, we're also connoisseurs of other local calendars & recommend @coyotemedia.org's calendar for all your wide-ranging cultural & athletic & culinary & meet-cute needs -- this one's good through tomorrow: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...
Reposted by Marthine Satris
Bring back this approach to writer bios
February 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Bring back this approach to writer bios
bringing the whole fam!
Pizza, contributor readings, wine, celebrating all things ZYZZYVA 131! See you Thursday?
Zyzzyva Issue 131 Release Party — Local Economy
Come and toast the publication of the newest issue of ZYZZYVA, the award-winning literary journal publishing since 1985. Featuring short readings by contributors Tomas Moniz, Maw Shein Win, and Suzann...
www.thelocaleconomy.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
bringing the whole fam!
dammit, i thought I could get to codex for a couple hours after my final meeting today but it ends at 3 :(
February 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
dammit, i thought I could get to codex for a couple hours after my final meeting today but it ends at 3 :(
Reposted by Marthine Satris
Pieces like this are why we’re all-aboard for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org , and why we’re encouraging you to be as well.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
Unpaid Debts
In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Pieces like this are why we’re all-aboard for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org , and why we’re encouraging you to be as well.
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/
Read @tcraggs22.bsky.social's capsule movie reviews, thank @xlenc.bsky.social for the Anarchist Skill Share find and @zunguzungu.bsky.social for practicing his Spanish, and I'll take credit for the rest 😁
February 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Read @tcraggs22.bsky.social's capsule movie reviews, thank @xlenc.bsky.social for the Anarchist Skill Share find and @zunguzungu.bsky.social for practicing his Spanish, and I'll take credit for the rest 😁
Reposted by Marthine Satris
A sculpture park is being built in Piedmont, California, to honor the Dearing family, but one relative says it’s not enough.
capitalbnews.org/black-homeow...
capitalbnews.org/black-homeow...
100 Years After a Black Family Was Forced Out, a Descendant Sues a California City
A sculpture park is being built in Piedmont, California, to honor the Dearing family, but one relative says it’s not enough.
capitalbnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
A sculpture park is being built in Piedmont, California, to honor the Dearing family, but one relative says it’s not enough.
capitalbnews.org/black-homeow...
capitalbnews.org/black-homeow...
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Pretty sure regular prisons are also concentration camps
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Pretty sure regular prisons are also concentration camps
Reposted by Marthine Satris
We lost an incredible LA Times colleague, Jeanette Marantos. She was a dedicated reporter - when an ICE raid on a cannabis farm broke out last July, Jeanette, whose beat was plants, was first on the scene and central to making sure we had accurate, quick information.
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
Jeanette Marantos, L.A. Times plants reporter, dies at 70
Jeanette Marantos, a Features reporter, died following an emergency heart issue. She helped educate readers about native California plants. She described her reporting as her own ongoing education.
www.latimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
We lost an incredible LA Times colleague, Jeanette Marantos. She was a dedicated reporter - when an ICE raid on a cannabis farm broke out last July, Jeanette, whose beat was plants, was first on the scene and central to making sure we had accurate, quick information.
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
Looking forward to this, put together by the most San Francisco person I know!
If you've been feeling frantic and powerless while SF arts institutions close left and right, SOMArts is hosting a community convening this Friday to channel all those feelings into action:
www.kqed.org/arts/1398653...
www.kqed.org/arts/1398653...
SOMArts to Gather SF Arts Community During ‘State of Emergency’
The cultural center will host a community meeting on Feb. 13 in an effort to save the local arts ecosystem.
www.kqed.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Looking forward to this, put together by the most San Francisco person I know!
I read Things in Nature Merely Grow on Saturday: Yiyun Li writes painfully, directly, of the abyss (her word) that is her life & the radical acceptance of living w/ heartbreaking loss of both sons to suicide in their teens. I found it a tender, sweet, wrenching book on mothering & the work of living
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I read Things in Nature Merely Grow on Saturday: Yiyun Li writes painfully, directly, of the abyss (her word) that is her life & the radical acceptance of living w/ heartbreaking loss of both sons to suicide in their teens. I found it a tender, sweet, wrenching book on mothering & the work of living
Now that's the take
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Now that's the take
Ok it's full on raining in West Marin now; I can't keep calling this a heavy fog when I can hear the drops landing.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Ok it's full on raining in West Marin now; I can't keep calling this a heavy fog when I can hear the drops landing.
recently learned about this wonderful poet, and another poet friend shared this fabulous older poem by them, published in The Awl (I miss The Awl!): it makes me feel like a slithery piece of meat whipped by the weather, and I like it:
www.theawl.com/2015/05/a-po...
www.theawl.com/2015/05/a-po...
A Poem by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
by Mark Bibbins, Editor“I was popular in certain circles”Among the river rats and the leaves. For example. I was huge among the lichen, and the waterfall couldn’t get enough of me. And the graveston...
www.theawl.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:29 AM
recently learned about this wonderful poet, and another poet friend shared this fabulous older poem by them, published in The Awl (I miss The Awl!): it makes me feel like a slithery piece of meat whipped by the weather, and I like it:
www.theawl.com/2015/05/a-po...
www.theawl.com/2015/05/a-po...
Now that we finally added a subscription button to mobile, we're unstoppable!
Also, you have no idea what we're building up to but just get ready, it's about to pop. Subscribe or you'll miss out on a sensorial experience like no other.
Also, you have no idea what we're building up to but just get ready, it's about to pop. Subscribe or you'll miss out on a sensorial experience like no other.
Just got in at the highest tier. They truly are doing things no one else is and it is glorious. LFG!
I say all this because--you knew this was coming--I hope you, who are reading this, might feel the same way, and help us out: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup
February 7, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Now that we finally added a subscription button to mobile, we're unstoppable!
Also, you have no idea what we're building up to but just get ready, it's about to pop. Subscribe or you'll miss out on a sensorial experience like no other.
Also, you have no idea what we're building up to but just get ready, it's about to pop. Subscribe or you'll miss out on a sensorial experience like no other.
Just had the best local interlocking interaction, aka why you should leave yr house. At happy hour at Broc (winery in Berkeley) to finish up some work while snacking with my daughter, ran into Dan, who just opened Best Friends on Solano and used to work at Vintage Berkeley in Elmwood. 1/3
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Just had the best local interlocking interaction, aka why you should leave yr house. At happy hour at Broc (winery in Berkeley) to finish up some work while snacking with my daughter, ran into Dan, who just opened Best Friends on Solano and used to work at Vintage Berkeley in Elmwood. 1/3
so pretty AND informative www.biographic.com/starling-stu... @biographic.bsky.social
Starling-Studded Skies - bioGraphic
A modern approach to a 19th-century photography technique celebrates both the art and science behind one of one of the planet’s most mesmerizing spectacles.
www.biographic.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
so pretty AND informative www.biographic.com/starling-stu... @biographic.bsky.social
in sum: chinook salmon in California are showing a vitamin deficiency linked to their diet becoming overly reliant on anchovies (which is probably due to climate-driven shifts in fish populations as well as overfishing/habitat destruction of herring, crab etc) www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...
A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More - bioGraphic
In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish.
www.biographic.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
in sum: chinook salmon in California are showing a vitamin deficiency linked to their diet becoming overly reliant on anchovies (which is probably due to climate-driven shifts in fish populations as well as overfishing/habitat destruction of herring, crab etc) www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...
"autonomous vehicles still rely substantially on human intellect. ...Put simply, the remote agent may not control the steering wheel, but they still make major decisions on where the vehicle navigates next."
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
"autonomous vehicles still rely substantially on human intellect. ...Put simply, the remote agent may not control the steering wheel, but they still make major decisions on where the vehicle navigates next."
Met another poet today who is also the daughter of a defense attorney. Adding her to my small collection! I think we've all inherited from our fathers some deep curiosity, empathy, linguistic dexterity, and a strong interest in resisting authority.
February 6, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Met another poet today who is also the daughter of a defense attorney. Adding her to my small collection! I think we've all inherited from our fathers some deep curiosity, empathy, linguistic dexterity, and a strong interest in resisting authority.