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Studying, Oakland Library
From where Iβm sitting, thereβs a clear view of some buildings and roads threading through this part of Oakland. Iβve found myself in the main building of the Oakland Public Library, tucked away on the second floor, in the Newspaper and Magazine Room. I came here in search of a reliable table and chair, something β read more
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New Sincerity: The Hopeful Read
My relationship with New Sincerity is a bildungsroman. It began in high school, sometime in the early 2000s, when I first read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. At the time, I couldnβt articulate what exactly made my chest ache when Toru Watanabe wandered Tokyo, weighed down by memory and emotional ambiguity. I only knew that β read more
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Just Caffeine pt. 8
The notion of productivity, its very aura, had long repelled me. It struck me not as virtue but as bondage disguised in aspiration. I was, for some years, possessed of the faint and foolish belief that the acquisition of a Field Notes notebook, slim and vaguely masculine, along with an overly wet, lushly bleeding fountain β read more
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Brief Takes: Jeff Vandermeer and Yevgeny Zamyatin
I only know two bookstores focused on speculative fiction, and one of them is Dark Carnival. Itβs a cramped, chaotic place: narrow aisles, overstuffed shelves, and stacks of books that block nearly every path. Finding what youβre looking for can be difficult, but thatβs part of the experience. The inventory far exceeds the floor space, β read more
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Brief Takes: Edogawa Rampo & Clarice Lispector
Perhaps my worst trait is impatience. Itβs not charming and it does not feel like it comes with ambition or nerves, but the clawing sort, the kind that makes me incapable of restraint in public spaces. I was in East Bay Booksellers, standing somewhere between the staff picks and the poetry shelf, when I realized β read more
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