I highly recommend you take three minutes of your day and watch this startling film. True dark is a vast resource, lost to many of us. So much of our night sky invisible. I watched this several times, just relishing the stars. Also, I turned off the sound half way through my first viewing and
Author: JNaz
I have just finished reading and exploring Hafizah Geter’s debut collection of poems and I am knocked flat. These poems traverse many landscapes, internal and external/brutal and beautiful. These are spare pieces that pack a big punch as she deals with issues of love, loss, racism, abuse, police brutality, family. They are, at once, accessible
This lovely book, this lovely, sad book, really struck me. Its beautiful, spare language is never overwrought, even as it pulls us through great sorrows, great loss. I loved that about it because it ultimately tells a very sad story, the story of a child abandoned by his mother. But I never felt pummeled by
This book was such a surprise. I had tuned into a conversation between Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander, hosted by Point Reyes Books, and afterward submitted a request for this book to my library. Not sure what I expected but it was very unexpected. Though all of it is based on historical texts and it
Thought some of you might be interested in tuning into this conversation. I have listened in on several Point Reyes Books events and they have been exceptional. They do post to YouTube eventually but it takes awhile. https://www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/kazim-ali-and-natalie-diaz
Just one more before we segue into open arts… It has taken me some time to post about this book, just as it took me some time to read it. And this is not because I didn’t love every single word of it. It is an extraordinary book. Rather it is because, as its title
Another engrossing read/listen from Kim Stanley Robinson. Aurora tells the story of a ship that leaves the solar system in the year 2545, with the intent to settle and form a human colony in the Tau Ceti system, many light years distant. The ship is amazing, containing 24 diverse biomes, around 2000 individuals, and a
Another unexpected delight. I had tuned into a virtual event hosted by Point Reyes Books – Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation with Robin Sloan. Robinson is a fave but I had never heard of Robin Sloan. What serendipity! Intelligent and bright eyed, with a mischievous smile, I investigated him further. I loved the title of
Oh, this jewel of a book, this rollicking ride of a book, was just pure pleasure. I couldn’t tell you where I read a review or who might have recommended it but it was on my “shelf” at the library and I am so glad it was. 160 pages of heart and adventure and surprise
