Marthine Satris

Please join me and Jane Fonda at the @heydaybooks.com annual Harvest celebration, next week Weds 10/28 in Berkeley! It'll be a very sweet evening www.heydaybooks.com/harvest/

microsoft put copilot in my word program & the help info says I can turn it off under preferences but there's no button there. I've logged in & out of MS365, I have closed & opened Word, turned my computer on & off. It's still trying to edit my doc for me & there's still no way to turn it off. ACK!

Along with all the state ballot propositions last week, we’ve completed our set of local ballot measures with EE and FF, weighed in on retaining judges, audited the Oakland City Auditor, vowed never to vote for a Herb, and failed to get interested in the 12th congressional district:

I am so thrilled to see how many people are joining @heydaybooks.com for our annual Harvest celebration! This year we are honoring Indigenous children's book authors, activist Jane Fonda, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, and more! Join us: heyday.salsalabs.org/Harvest2026/...

They're calling it the most correct and verbose Oakland voting guide in the history of Oakland voting guides? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...

Gave my daughter a special dagger she can plunge directly into my heart if I ever do this type of thing

Once more, with feeling! 😍 Yessssssss! Our 27th annual fundraiser featuring renowned poets Kazim Ali & Alison Luterman is tomorrow! It's free but donations are welcome & we've a smorgasbord of exciting silent auction items! Come on down to the poetry house! 👇 #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity

For example, take a look at this absolute crap. The implication here, by people who are trying to trick you, is that "billionaire" and "top 2%" are the same, or even similar group of people. The top 2% is 791,859 people. There are 200 billionaires, who pay no virtually NO INCOME TAX AT ALL.

The billionaire-owned San Francisco Chronicle—like the billionaire-owned LA Times—has predictably, come out against Prop 40, and the arguments given are dogshit archive.li/wG2wc#select...

Be like Pete... Vote. With ORB

Check it out! A cool Heyday event coming down the pike!

I trust the ORB voter guide with my life (vote).

If a billionaire really wanted to use their money to serve American literary culture they'd establish a non-profit WHOLESALER specifically serving small & indie presses

“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Protect yourself and your community with a free flu shot. Berkeley City College, 2050 Center St., 1st Floor Thursday, October 22, 12:00pm - 2:00pm Event details:

Learning from the end of the world in 1963 and 1974.

A new name has been picked for Cesar Chavez Street... missionlocal.org/2026/10/san-...

This is really good in a bunch of ways. I was especially caught by the materialist explanation of contemporary short story aesthetics (regardless of region, genre, etc.) — stories are published and awarded for the qualities that make them attractive to readers with much too much to read.

Laughed out loud (bitterly) on BART at the end of this review of a book I will never read; the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org has done it again www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-new-york...

In his first book, the nonfiction Morning in Marin, David Perlis writes about Marin County’s shaping of American counterculture. buff.ly/jNicvTR

Smells like smoke east of the lake in Oakland

nice book job at Lithub!! $72-75k and fully remote! lithub.com/lit-hub-is-h...

What California is seeing now is “decades worth of sea level rise in a month or two." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Hope you don't get sick of me... I'm just so happy to be here celebrating the return of Reading Rainbow! 🥹🌈🦋📚 youtube.com/@readingrain...

My daughter got up & is ready for school early, so she's using her extra time to busk for money on the sidewalk outside our house w/ her recorder. She knows zero songs on the recorder so she's improvising. It's very experimental & I don't think she knows how little experimental musicians get paid.

Rosanna Xia @rosannaxia.bsky.social in the LA Times on El Niño and coastal flooding in California this winter: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Heading into the city making the same mistake I make every time it's a hot day in Oakland: I forgot my layers

What a lovely evening talking about trees and hedges, alphabets and translation, and the beautiful work of artistic collaboration that brought The Language of Trees into being! Have fun in Point Reyes Katie!

No one asked the Oakland Review of Books to make a voting guide, and we made one anyway. Today we start off with the ballot propositions and the regional transit measure: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/orbs-totally...

Put another way, a lot of people are now WFH that didn't used to be able to, and that's a good thing (for them). But the effects of that on mass transit in the Bay has been huge transit deficits. And if RTM fails, it will be the workers who CAN'T WFH who will suffer most. So don't be an asshole!

WFH is why BART is running a deficit. But: "If you are WFH (or even part-time WFH) and you vote no on this measure, you are engaged in an intra-class war against the workers who make your life comfortable": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/voting-guide...

Hugely grateful to all the ORB editors and contributors who put this together!

10/10, no notes.

A mega thread of the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org guide to statewide propositions..

Attn science writers, journalists, essayists, nature writers: You can (and should!) nominate your own work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing! (Editors et al, you're welcome to nominate, too.) Everything you need to know is here: jaimegreen.net/basn

Oakland! Please join me and @katieholten.bsky.social this Weds 10/14 for a conversation about trees and the way they come to us through the words of poets, scientists, and thinkers through the ages: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-langua...