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another day on the artillery crew
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
another day on the artillery crew
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“Arachnids have book lungs,” said a passing man in another top hat.
“Fight! Fight!” shouted a bystander. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sad-for-new-...
“Fight! Fight!” shouted a bystander. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sad-for-new-...
Sad for New Year's
"Re-Animation," New Year’s Eve, Fruitvale warehouse
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January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“Arachnids have book lungs,” said a passing man in another top hat.
“Fight! Fight!” shouted a bystander. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sad-for-new-...
“Fight! Fight!” shouted a bystander. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sad-for-new-...
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You simply cannot believe how many words I have written about Aaron Cometbus' Electric Menorah, but really about the muralization of history, no, about Telegraph Avenue and capitalism (but actually about the sixties, my mom, and about mourning mourning): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...
War is Over (Because UC Wants it)
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah," and Praising the Emptiness
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October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
You simply cannot believe how many words I have written about Aaron Cometbus' Electric Menorah, but really about the muralization of history, no, about Telegraph Avenue and capitalism (but actually about the sixties, my mom, and about mourning mourning): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/war-is-over-...
as long as Timothée Chalamet has to play Krasznahorkai at some point this is fine
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
as long as Timothée Chalamet has to play Krasznahorkai at some point this is fine
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I hadn't believed anyone could turn bela tarr's masterpiece into prose, until I saw what a real master of the Very Long Sentence was capable of. A salute to you, Mr K!
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I hadn't believed anyone could turn bela tarr's masterpiece into prose, until I saw what a real master of the Very Long Sentence was capable of. A salute to you, Mr K!
I got to meet up again with my old collaborator Georg Büchner on assignment for ORB, and couldn’t have enjoyed it more.
Oakland has an opera, and ORB is on it! "A bright streak over the grass, where the toadstools grow": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-bright-str...
A bright streak over the grass, where the toadstools grow
Wozzeck, Scottish Rite Center, August 17
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August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I got to meet up again with my old collaborator Georg Büchner on assignment for ORB, and couldn’t have enjoyed it more.
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No one asked for ORB, but then again, art is often unsolicited. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unsolicited-...
Release party for "Unsolicited Drawings of Unsolicited Dick Pictures": An unsolicited report.
West Oakland, back in April.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
No one asked for ORB, but then again, art is often unsolicited. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unsolicited-...
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As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things.
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
ORB \O/
The Oakland Review of Books is coming!
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June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things.
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-brick-buil...
A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One
For the first Valkyrie game, my daughter and I took BART to Powell St, then followed a pathway of little basketball decals from the faregates into the new-ish Muni T line station, where you can flash ...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A Brick Building at Ballhalla, West Bay, Week One: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-brick-buil...
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A good day to pick up something from our east bay friends at Transit. EBB has Lauren Markham's Immemorial on the shelves: www.ebbooksellers.com/item/EKOgAN1... And from the back catalog, our feeling is that Axiomatic is a stone cold classic: www.transitbooks.org/books/axioma...
May 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A good day to pick up something from our east bay friends at Transit. EBB has Lauren Markham's Immemorial on the shelves: www.ebbooksellers.com/item/EKOgAN1... And from the back catalog, our feeling is that Axiomatic is a stone cold classic: www.transitbooks.org/books/axioma...
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to be clear, here at \O/ we are Alcatraz truthers: John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris escaped. This business about being eaten by sharks is nonsense. There are great whites in the actual ocean but they come into the bay about as often as your west bay friends come to Oakland.
May 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
to be clear, here at \O/ we are Alcatraz truthers: John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris escaped. This business about being eaten by sharks is nonsense. There are great whites in the actual ocean but they come into the bay about as often as your west bay friends come to Oakland.
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Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
May 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Along with many other nonprofit arts organizations, we learned last night that our grant from the National Endowment for the Arts—$40,000 toward the publication of our books in 2025—has been terminated. While this news was not unexpected, its message was chilling.
There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she portrays herself as a spider. atem.metameat.net/2025/01/19/2...
January 19, 2025
There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she...
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January 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
There were a number of works, she said, executed when Bourgeois was the mother of small children, in which she portrays herself as a spider. atem.metameat.net/2025/01/19/2...
the existence of chatbots implies the existence of chienbots
January 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the existence of chatbots implies the existence of chienbots
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January 17, 2025
…and with his erratic, irregular gait, as if he had pebbles in his shoes, he would make his way to...
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January 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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