Oakland Post: Week of August 26 – September 1, 2026
By Jana Lang Propel Youth Reporter Youth-Led Black August Event Brings Past to Present at East Oakland Boxing…
Kristi Yamaguchi’s Family Literacy Festival returns to San Jose – The Mercury News
Well-read families The fourth annual Kristi Yamaguchi’s Family Literacy Festival, set for Sept. 5 at the Children’s Discovery…
La Mesa bookstore rejects large orders linked to AI companies
LA MESA, Calif. (KGTV) – In the past month, a La Mesa bookstore says it’s rejected dozens of…
Former NFL running back’s San Diego-based novel aims to flip the crime genre on its head – San Diego Union-Tribune
Former NFL player Andre Hardy is paying homage to his hometown of San Diego as he enters a…
Colin Kaepernick to headline Sacramento author talk Sept. 21…
Activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is scheduled to headline an author talk at Sacramento’s…
Friends of the Milpitas Library 4-day sale set for next month – The Mercury News
Friends book sale The Friends of the Milpitas Library are holding a four-day sale Sept. 3-6 at the…
‘How Punctuation Remade the World’ author explains the unexpected history of those little marks
Pity the period. And the comma and the semicolon too. Punctuation is the sturdy armature of written language,…
Secret codes, KGB interrogations and sheet music: This CSU San Marcos professor’s new book is a true Cold War thriller – San Diego Union-Tribune
Back in 1985 in the Soviet Union, Merryl Goldberg was interrogated by the KGB three times, briefly kidnapped…
Oakland Observes Black August with Block Parties, Film Showings, Workshops
By Carla Thomas OAKLAND – A sweeping, multiphase redevelopment of the Oakland Coliseum site led by Ray Bobbitt,…
Berkeley author maps out an ‘ecocivilization’ to avert catastrophe
The first poetry collection by Colleen Morton Busch, board president of the Berkeley Zen Center, published after winning…
Anaheim’s Booktown USA bookstore closes its doors after 23 years – Orange County Register
There had been plenty of memorable moments as Booktown USA owner Thomas Pesce prepared to close his store…
New Book Reveals How Marin Shaped Counterculture
San Francisco is considered the nucleus of the counterculture movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It’s the place…