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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Litquake: Hair on Fire event in San Francisco
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To know the enemy, ORB is reporting from tech week in SF. Our correspondent's second missive is coming, but until then, here's #1:
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At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...
Initiating Tech Week
Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night
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Stay tuned for day two which will happen tomorrow.
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At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...
Initiating Tech Week
Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night
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I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.

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Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
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More pics from rally & march today (Oct 4) in Oakland, CA to demand an end to arms shipments to Israel via Oakland airport @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social
Protestors marching wearing keffiyehs, with a man in the foreground carrying a young boy in his arms Protestors marching, wearing keffiyehs, carrying a sign decorated with watermelons reading “Free Palestine;” another sign reads “If Palestine has not broken and reshaped your soul, then grieve not for them, but for the death of your own heart” Protestors marching wearing keffiyehs and carrying a sign reading “Land you have to kill for is not yours; land you have to die for is” Small boy carrying a Palestinian flag rides on a man’s shoulders in the midst of marching protestors
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This is a nice article but it falls to us to remind everyone that this sentence which everyone says some version of: "Of Oakland, the town where she grew up, she famously remarked: “There is no there, there” is so wrong it's not EVEN wrong

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In Search of Lost Stein
The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby
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"In 2024, Hayward and Richmond were the first two U.S. cities to divest from the occupation of Palestine, and the city of Dublin passed an EIP last month."
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"The Best American Poetry is a genre management project that drives a wedge between poetry and interdisciplinary intellectual culture. It powerfully insists on defining American poetry as a literary practice self-managed by the professional networks it privileges."
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"I am the homeless guy and I want my knife back"