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Catching Heat from Big Brother: Education and Climate in MAGAland

In those states where information and educational systems are increasingly being used as tools for thought control, more and more people will be going through life ill equipped to understand how much ecological peril humanity faces, or how deep a transformation will be required of us.

5 Questions with Brandon Shimoda, Author of HYDRA MEDUSA

I was asked to write the introduction. I couldn’t say no, but how could I say yes? If I said yes, I’d be in trouble, because how could I live up to the invitation to introduce a writer who is so transcendently meaningful to me? But if I said no, I’d be in a different, more enduring kind of trouble. I said yes.

5 Questions with Eddie Muller, Author of EDDIE MULLER’S NOIR BAR: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir

I’d buy an old movie palace and convert it into a combination bar, bookstore, and cinema. Finding the perfect venue would dictate where it would be, but odds are it’d need to be a university town if you really wanted to make a living at it. What would I call it? How about “Lush Life?” Four and four, good for the marquee. If I had an apartment upstairs, I’d never leave.

Viva Bob Sharrard!

Bob was hired on as a bookseller at City Lights in 1977, and he stayed on for a 40-year career, ultimately becoming a Senior Editor and Rights Manager for City Lights Publishers. He retired in 2017 and lived in his longtime North Beach apartment until his passing earlier this year.

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