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Cats are a staple of many independent bookstores, a\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd as any bookstore owner will tell you, they're often the ones that \u003cem>truly\u003c/em> run the place.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate PBS' series\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Great American Read\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, which invites viewers like you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/vote/\">vote for \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">America’s most beloved novel from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/\">list of 100\u003c/a>, we traveled around the Bay Area to meet some of these book-loving felines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hudson, Borderlands Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://borderlands-books.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borderlands,\u003c/a> a specialty bookshop located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district, boasts new and used imports, fan fiction, rare editions, and a cat as unconventional as the bookstore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meet Hudson. He's a Sphinx breed, which means he's hairless. Despite his expression,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he's surprisingly friendly. Manager Jude Feldman says Hudson is a crowd-pleaser and a draw for Borderlands. \"People stop and stare [at Hudson perching in the window] while passing by on the street. It’s a great way to lure them in.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837775\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837775 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Hudson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Hudson were an author, who would he be? \"Oscar Wilde,\" says Jude. \"Because he’s a sassy freethinker, yet very lovable.\" Want to see Hudson at Borderlands? Catch him on Valencia while you can; he'll be moving to the Haight when the store relocates sometime \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Weekend-booking-Borderlands-Books-open-house-13102154.php\">later this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Owen, Aardvark \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">227 Church St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.aardvarkbookssf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aardvark Books\u003c/a> is a spacious emporium selling new and secondhand books, cards, and newspapers in San Francisco’s Castro District. The store's mascot Owen has been a fixture there for 12 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837749 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen of Aardvark Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Owen’s the real boss around here,\" says Aardvark employee David. You can usually find him on his favorite chair in the Myth & Folklore section.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837777\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837777 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Owen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen, the bookstore cat at Aardvark (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Owen was an author, he'd be Christopher Isherwood, says Aardvark employee Frieda, because he's \"loving, kind, pragmatic and takes life as it comes. Nothing really seems to upset him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Parrot, Pegasus \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books Downtown\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrot, the senior cat-in-residence at Downtown Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pegasus Books\u003c/a> may be on the grumpier end of the Bookstore Cat spectrum, but the place just didn't feel complete until she arrived, says employee Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837763 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/681-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If she were an author, Sean says, \"She would be Doris Lessing: grouchy and strong-willed. Just like Lessing, Parrot gives off the vibe that she too would be nonchalant about winning a Nobel Prize.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/900-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot, the bookstore cat of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Parrot can be crabby, she has a major fan club among Pegasus' customers; some pay the store a visit just to see her, and Parrot has even received fan mail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sweetpea & Jack, Copperfield's Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">104 W Matheson St, Healdsburg, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/791-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's better than a bookstore with a cat? One with two cats, obviously! Enter Sweetpea and Jack of \u003ca href=\"https://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/healdsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copperfield's \u003c/a>in Sonoma County. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both cats were adopted from local shelters at around 9 years old, and are now beloved by customers.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837760\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/805-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"565\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweetpea, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You'll find Sweetpea, who certainly lives up to her name, front and center, greeting customers at the door. Although she acts young, pawing at your feet as you browse, don’t be fooled: she’s the ripe age of 14 (about 72 in cat years). \"If she were personified as an author,\" employee Cathy says, \"she would be Margaret Mitchell. She thinks she’s tough, but she’s actually sweet.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837748 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/test3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sociable store mate Jack is also a senior citizen at 14, with hobbies that include celebrating customers' birthdays and bullying dogs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/809-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"He’s the real boss, and knows how to show guests great hospitality,\" says Copperfield's employee Emily. (Unless you're a dog.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Emma & Ender, Recycle Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1066 The Alameda, San Jose, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/840-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This South Bay spot is a used \u003ca href=\"http://recyclebookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bookstore\u003c/a> with an eclectic selection of titles and a labyrinthine layout. It’s easy to miss the two kitties, as they blend in with the books, from witchcraft to folklore.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emma, a black cat who's the more gregarious of the two, likes to stalk customers in the stacks. If you sit down to skim the first few pages of a book, she might even jump right into your lap. If she were an author, employee Eric says, \"she would be Edith Wharton: prim and proper.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837759 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/832-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"545\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ender, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her store mate Ender was named after the title character of the science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ender’s Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for his youthful attitude and energy when he was first adopted. He\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s mellowed out since then and is the timider of the two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837751 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/DSC_0831-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma of Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do bookstores often have cats? Recycle employee Eric says that owners used to dread rats chewing the pages of their books so would bring in cats \"as\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a practical way to keep the rats away, a tradition that never really left.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rats or no rats, we think the combination of books and cats is (don't hate us)... purrfect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information on PBS's Great American Read, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-160x8.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-768x40.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-240x13.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-375x20.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-520x27.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"We traveled around the Bay Area to meet some book-loving felines.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1533168081,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":976},"headData":{"title":"Meet 9 Bookstore Cats From Around the Bay Area | KQED","description":"We traveled around the Bay Area to meet some book-loving felines.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"104802 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=104802","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2018/07/27/meet-9-bookstore-cats-from-around-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"Meet 9 Bookstore Cats From Around the Bay Area","path":"/pop/104802/meet-9-bookstore-cats-from-around-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We promise: This is no fluff piece. Cats are a staple of many independent bookstores, a\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd as any bookstore owner will tell you, they're often the ones that \u003cem>truly\u003c/em> run the place.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate PBS' series\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Great American Read\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, which invites viewers like you to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/vote/\">vote for \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">America’s most beloved novel from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/\">list of 100\u003c/a>, we traveled around the Bay Area to meet some of these book-loving felines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Hudson, Borderlands Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://borderlands-books.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borderlands,\u003c/a> a specialty bookshop located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district, boasts new and used imports, fan fiction, rare editions, and a cat as unconventional as the bookstore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104818\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Hudson1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands \u003ccite>(Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meet Hudson. He's a Sphinx breed, which means he's hairless. Despite his expression,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he's surprisingly friendly. Manager Jude Feldman says Hudson is a crowd-pleaser and a draw for Borderlands. \"People stop and stare [at Hudson perching in the window] while passing by on the street. It’s a great way to lure them in.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837775\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837775 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Hudson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hudson, the bookstore cat of Borderlands (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Hudson were an author, who would he be? \"Oscar Wilde,\" says Jude. \"Because he’s a sassy freethinker, yet very lovable.\" Want to see Hudson at Borderlands? Catch him on Valencia while you can; he'll be moving to the Haight when the store relocates sometime \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/Weekend-booking-Borderlands-Books-open-house-13102154.php\">later this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Owen, Aardvark \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">227 Church St, San Francisco, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.aardvarkbookssf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aardvark Books\u003c/a> is a spacious emporium selling new and secondhand books, cards, and newspapers in San Francisco’s Castro District. The store's mascot Owen has been a fixture there for 12 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837749\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837749 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen of Aardvark Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"Owen’s the real boss around here,\" says Aardvark employee David. You can usually find him on his favorite chair in the Myth & Folklore section.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837777\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837777 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/Owen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen, the bookstore cat at Aardvark (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If Owen was an author, he'd be Christopher Isherwood, says Aardvark employee Frieda, because he's \"loving, kind, pragmatic and takes life as it comes. Nothing really seems to upset him.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Parrot, Pegasus \u003c/b>\u003cb>Books Downtown\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrot, the senior cat-in-residence at Downtown Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pegasus Books\u003c/a> may be on the grumpier end of the Bookstore Cat spectrum, but the place just didn't feel complete until she arrived, says employee Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837763 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/681-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If she were an author, Sean says, \"She would be Doris Lessing: grouchy and strong-willed. Just like Lessing, Parrot gives off the vibe that she too would be nonchalant about winning a Nobel Prize.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837756\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837756 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/900-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parrot, the bookstore cat of Pegasus Books (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Parrot can be crabby, she has a major fan club among Pegasus' customers; some pay the store a visit just to see her, and Parrot has even received fan mail. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sweetpea & Jack, Copperfield's Books\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">104 W Matheson St, Healdsburg, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/791-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"563\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's better than a bookstore with a cat? One with two cats, obviously! Enter Sweetpea and Jack of \u003ca href=\"https://www.copperfieldsbooks.com/healdsburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copperfield's \u003c/a>in Sonoma County. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both cats were adopted from local shelters at around 9 years old, and are now beloved by customers.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837760\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837760 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/805-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"565\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweetpea, one of the bookstore cats at Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You'll find Sweetpea, who certainly lives up to her name, front and center, greeting customers at the door. Although she acts young, pawing at your feet as you browse, don’t be fooled: she’s the ripe age of 14 (about 72 in cat years). \"If she were personified as an author,\" employee Cathy says, \"she would be Margaret Mitchell. She thinks she’s tough, but she’s actually sweet.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837748\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837748 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/test3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her sociable store mate Jack is also a senior citizen at 14, with hobbies that include celebrating customers' birthdays and bullying dogs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837757\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837757 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/809-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack of Copperfield's (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"He’s the real boss, and knows how to show guests great hospitality,\" says Copperfield's employee Emily. (Unless you're a dog.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Emma & Ender, Recycle Bookstore\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1066 The Alameda, San Jose, CA \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837761 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/840-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This South Bay spot is a used \u003ca href=\"http://recyclebookstore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bookstore\u003c/a> with an eclectic selection of titles and a labyrinthine layout. It’s easy to miss the two kitties, as they blend in with the books, from witchcraft to folklore.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emma, a black cat who's the more gregarious of the two, likes to stalk customers in the stacks. If you sit down to skim the first few pages of a book, she might even jump right into your lap. If she were an author, employee Eric says, \"she would be Edith Wharton: prim and proper.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837759\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837759 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/832-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"545\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ender, one of the bookstore cats at Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her store mate Ender was named after the title character of the science fiction novel \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ender’s Game\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for his youthful attitude and energy when he was first adopted. He\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s mellowed out since then and is the timider of the two. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13837751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 768px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13837751 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/07/DSC_0831-fin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma of Recycle Bookstore (Ashley Urdang/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do bookstores often have cats? Recycle employee Eric says that owners used to dread rats chewing the pages of their books so would bring in cats \"as\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a practical way to keep the rats away, a tradition that never really left.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rats or no rats, we think the combination of books and cats is (don't hate us)... purrfect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information on PBS's Great American Read, click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-160x8.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-768x40.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-240x13.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-375x20.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/07/Spine-1-520x27.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/104802/meet-9-bookstore-cats-from-around-the-bay-area","authors":["11383"],"categories":["pop_131","pop_1548","pop_46","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_3135","pop_108","pop_1466","pop_3259","pop_3264","pop_3263"],"featImg":"pop_104821","label":"pop"},"pop_104549":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_104549","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"104549","score":null,"sort":[1532091615000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"quiz-which-iconic-novel-are-you","title":"QUIZ: Which Iconic Novel Are You?","publishDate":1532091615,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>If you were a book, which would you be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBS's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/series/greatamericanread\">\u003cem>Great American Read\u003c/em>\u003c/a> list showcases 100 of America's best-loved books, spanning eras and genres—so take our quiz and discover which iconic work of literature \u003cem>you\u003c/em> embody. Then enter your email address at the end of the quiz to sign up for our KQED Arts newsletter AND be entered into a random drawing to win a $50 book gift certificate from \u003ca href=\"https://www.booksinc.net/\">Books, Inc\u003c/a>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe id=\"quizWidget-463627\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700px\" frameborder=\"0\" border=\"none\" src=\"https://www.qzzr.com/widget/quiz/fi9xdWl6emVzLzQ2MzYyNw\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have a book that changed your life and you want to talk about it? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdq9PdswKrqyO9Aod2VzIk3QPnbfWPt_8RcWQFk_2bckrHsyA/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fill out the survey here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From all entries, we’ll randomly select five winners, and you'll have 24 hours to claim your prize. Deadline to enter is August 31, 2018, at noon. You must be a California resident and 18 years or older to participate. 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It was no surprise, certainly, to learn his over-the-top persona belied a well of insecurity, an almost compulsive need to be liked, to make others happy, often at the expense of his own well-being. In reading a few reviews, though, I saw one sentiment popping up repeatedly: that it was tough to reconcile the fiercely loving friend and practicing Catholic with the addict who died alone on a linoleum floor after a three-day binge, from a combination of cocaine and morphine, following more than a dozen attempts at rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For various reasons, some of which I try not to think about too hard, I've simply never found this difficult to reconcile. Suffice it to say, it makes sense that the relationship between people-pleasing personality types and alcoholism was fresh on my mind a few days later when I called up Sarah Hepola, the author of the 2015 \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> best-selling memoir \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>(Full disclosure: Hepola was my boss at my first job out of grad school, an internship at Salon.com, where she was an editor until last year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is a brutally honest, hilarious and devastating anthropological dig into Hepola's blacked-out drunk years -- what led to them, from her first sip of beer at age 11 to the cool-girl-who-can-hang-with-the-guys persona of her 20s, and what finally led her out of them. (Among other things: nearly burning her house down, a series of semi-existential crises, and a lot of support from friends and AA.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Blackout \u003c/i>was published in paperback for the first time this week, so the writer's embarked on a mini book tour, including two stops in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">She'll appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9, in conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/29/472211301/girls-sex-and-the-importance-of-talking-to-young-women-about-pleasure\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Orenstein\u003c/a>, and again on Saturday, June 11, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/25/what-do-haikus-lesbians-and-cats-have-in-common-ask-anna-pulley/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Pulley\u003c/a> and other very funny East Bay writers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The author in her not-sober years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in her not-sober years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: The addiction-recovery memoir is, obviously, far from a new thing -- especially when you look at writers talking about how alcohol helped fuel their craft. I'm curious what made you want to write \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>What made you feel like your story had something new to add?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Hepola:\u003c/strong> When I first started thinking about writing a book, I went to Barnes & Noble in Union Square [in New York], and I went to the addiction section and read everything I could find. I found this book about women and drinking, and the upshot was that women hide their drinking and there are no social rituals about drinking for women the way there are for men. And I just went, \"Hmm, this book is not true of my experience.\" By 2010, when I quit, there was the boom in wine for the last 15 or 20 years that's been driven by women, the growth of girls' night, or girls' drinking book clubs, bachelorette parties. All of it was around drinking. And I thought, \"I don't think this story's been told yet.\" We've all been living it, but it takes a while for the studies and the literature to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing is I was reading a lot of books about addiction that would end when the character got sober. And I'd be thinking, \"What next?\" Okay, fine, I'm going to quit drinking, but my life's gonna be over? I needed to answer what was after that. That's the beginning of a story, not the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/06/03/480460363/a-path-from-blackout-drunkenness-to-sobriety-and-self-acceptance\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Sarah Hepola talk about 'Blackout' on Fresh Air here.\u003c/a>]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/427435929/427853008\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the things that stuck with me about \u003cem>Blackout \u003c/em>is the way you talk about using alcohol to get out of your own head -- as a person who had always been the good girl, used to making everyone happy, that drinking provided a sort of way out.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It meant \u003cem>freedom\u003c/em>. Absolutely. I've always been oppressed by my own self-consciousness, by meeting other people's expectations of me and adapting to them -- 'Okay, I have to be cool with these people, and good with these people.' It was different performances on different stages and all of that stuff is so exhausting. Alcohol was the release from that. So when you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, of course, if you keep using that solution, and you over-rely on that solution and you don't find other ways to fix it, it will stop being a solution and start being a problem. It shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where I was [in 2010]. I didn't want to quit, but I had to, so I quit -- which, great. Yay, me. Let's all cheer for the heroine, right? But I'm still the same lousy person, oppressed by self-consciousness, desperate to be liked, and loved by men, and what do you do with all that when you don't have alcohol? [Figuring that out] has pretty much been the last six years of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So, you basically just summarized the internal monologue of most women I know, regardless of age or alcohol use. What have you learned in six years? Any tricks we can steal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think you have to try to care less. As you get older, you start realizing you have a finite amount of mental energy and, you know, maybe I need to stop worrying what strangers on the street think of my outfit. You realize you do have choices, and you start making choices toward actual agency. When I wasn't drinking the discomfort away, I started to problem-solve a little bit. If I was getting ready to go out and I was feeling like 'I hate going out,' I'd have to go, 'Okay, why am I uncomfortable? Right, I hate putting on clothes, because I'm overweight.' Whereas before it would just be 'Okay, I'm going to drink until I feel better.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's a very female problem, too: I would tell everyone what they wanted to hear. And then it would be, 'Okay, how am I gonna get out of this?' \u003cem>You can say no\u003c/em>. I think my AA sponsor was the first person to tell me that. And it's so simple, but it's so hard. I would shake sometimes doing it. Learning not to get myself into situations that I had to drink away was big. And so was asking for what I wanted and needed. For example, let's say I have a relationship with a guy, and he doesn't text me back. Instead of building a story in my head about why, you can ask \"Is there something going on?\" And for a lot of my life, that didn't seem like a possible option. I am repeatedly struck by the fact that I am 41 years old and learning skills I wish I'd learned when I was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The impact of sobriety on your dating and sex life definitely jumped out at me in the last third of the book. And it's interesting, because that's an area of life where I think even people who would never consider themselves to be problem drinkers are incredibly accustomed to using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety. It's acceptable, for some reason, in that context. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I spoke with a friend who's a 27-year-old sex writer about this, and she does not have a drinking problem. She said \"I don't think I could [date] without it.\" She writes about sex for a living! That's telling us something. That doesn't mean we all have to get sober -- believe me, I'm not interested in what other people are drinking. But why is it that we feel we need to drink in order to be sexual, almost to a crippling degree? I've had to completely recalibrate the way I do business, rethink my stance on casual sex. There's a lot of emotional vulnerability that comes with being sober. I think if I want physical closeness with someone, unfortunately, it has to be someone I really feel comfortable with, and not a lot of people jump through that hoop. I keep my door locked now. The door was open for a long time. [Laughs.] The door didn't even have a lock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does that almost feel like a thing you're not supposed to admit -- that sex involves feelings for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right! Because feelings are seen as weak; we see it as too traditionally feminine. You're basically calling bullshit on the party, and nobody wants to call bullshit. It's been hard for me: Am I a prude? But you really do have to stop worrying what everyone thinks of you. I'd be on a date with a guy and think \"If I could just get drunk I could have sex with him,\" where, without drinking, I didn't even want to touch him. And I realized there was a really well-worn path there: if I felt natural reluctance or fear, bulldoze it until you're in fuck-it-ville. I lived in fuck-it-ville for a lot of years, and people who live there, more power to 'em. But it's been an interesting social experiment not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Blackout by Sarah Hepola\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackout by Sarah Hepola\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I'm curious about your take on Amy Schumer in \u003cem>Trainwreck\u003c/em>, and how she handles the women-and-alcohol-and-casual-sex thing, since that film came out at almost exactly the same time as your book last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I like Amy Schumer so much, and it actually kind of creeps me out how many things we seem to have in common. It's really weird that my book, which starts with me coming out of a blackout in a Paris hotel room, came out during the same summer as Amy Schumer's movie, where she's coming out of a blackout in Staten Island -- but of course she's playing it for laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think both my book and that movie are reflecting, in our own ways, a cultural shift that has happened in the last 20 years, which is that it's seen as a position of power for women to drink and have sex like men. And I think that is both a position of power and a terrible handicap at times. One of the inspirations for my book -- I was reading Chelsea Handler's book, \u003cem>My Horizontal Life\u003c/em>, about sleeping with the wrong people, and that was also all played for laughs. I had just come out of that, and I didn't think it was that funny anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my drinking years I would tell those stories at parties and I always made people laugh, but I was curious: what was the emotional reality of those stories? If you didn't tell those stories at parties for a laugh, what would the real versions be? I mean, you could do that with Facebook, too: What's the real story here? Often, it'd be a lot of grisly shit. You hit some really raw places coming into sobriety. There's all this scar tissue around your sex life in a way I didn't see before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's funny, because in that movie, even though the ending (with Amy Schumer's character getting sober to work on her relationship) was clearly supposed to be good for her, part of me had this knee-jerk thing, like: Wait, why does she have to throw away her bong? For a \u003cem>guy\u003c/em>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of people felt that way, and it makes sense: There's a certain disappointment among women that they are not allowed the freedom of being badly behaved. Bad behavior is power, that's cool, that's transgressive. My question is, why do we think being a jerk is aspirational? I did not experience the Amy Schumer character who says cruel things to her friends, who's rude and detached, as \"Yeah, she's so awesome.\" Who wants to stand in line to be a dick?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also get it. I really do understand that women have felt shoehorned into positions of nurturer and good girl and people-pleaser, these things that have got you and I looking to alcohol. There is this real longing to see freedom from that. And that's a big conversation, but one thing I know is that I, as an adult person, am tired of that freedom coming through alcohol. That's a narrative cliche, but it's true: There's got to be another way that women free themselves aside from taking shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hepola will appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9 at 7:30pm, in conversation with Peggy Orenstein, and Saturday, June 11, with Anna Pulley at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland. Read her award-winning piece for Texas Monthly on \u003ca href=\"http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-alcohol-blackout/\" target=\"_blank\">campus sexual assault here\u003c/a>. She's also just begun a five-part series for Jezebel, \"\u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/ask-a-former-drunk-when-do-you-know-you-have-a-problem-1780859204\" target=\"_blank\">Ask a Former Drunk\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"When you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' And then it shifts.\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1465499563,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":2323},"headData":{"title":"Sarah Hepola on Sex, Blackouts, and Alternative Routes to Freedom | KQED","description":""When you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' And then it shifts."","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"25979 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=25979","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/08/sarah-hepola-on-sex-blackouts-and-alternative-routes-to-freedom/","disqusTitle":"Sarah Hepola on Sex, Blackouts, and Alternative Routes to Freedom","path":"/pop/25979/sarah-hepola-on-sex-blackouts-and-alternative-routes-to-freedom","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I'm nearly a year behind on this, but I finally got around to watching \u003cem>I Am Chris Farley\u003c/em>, the 2015 documentary about the late, insanely talented comedian whose appetites for food, booze and cocaine ended his life far too soon, at the age of 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sweet, but it wasn't terribly illuminating. It was no surprise, certainly, to learn his over-the-top persona belied a well of insecurity, an almost compulsive need to be liked, to make others happy, often at the expense of his own well-being. In reading a few reviews, though, I saw one sentiment popping up repeatedly: that it was tough to reconcile the fiercely loving friend and practicing Catholic with the addict who died alone on a linoleum floor after a three-day binge, from a combination of cocaine and morphine, following more than a dozen attempts at rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For various reasons, some of which I try not to think about too hard, I've simply never found this difficult to reconcile. Suffice it to say, it makes sense that the relationship between people-pleasing personality types and alcoholism was fresh on my mind a few days later when I called up Sarah Hepola, the author of the 2015 \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> best-selling memoir \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>(Full disclosure: Hepola was my boss at my first job out of grad school, an internship at Salon.com, where she was an editor until last year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is a brutally honest, hilarious and devastating anthropological dig into Hepola's blacked-out drunk years -- what led to them, from her first sip of beer at age 11 to the cool-girl-who-can-hang-with-the-guys persona of her 20s, and what finally led her out of them. (Among other things: nearly burning her house down, a series of semi-existential crises, and a lot of support from friends and AA.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Blackout \u003c/i>was published in paperback for the first time this week, so the writer's embarked on a mini book tour, including two stops in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">She'll appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9, in conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/29/472211301/girls-sex-and-the-importance-of-talking-to-young-women-about-pleasure\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Orenstein\u003c/a>, and again on Saturday, June 11, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/25/what-do-haikus-lesbians-and-cats-have-in-common-ask-anna-pulley/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Pulley\u003c/a> and other very funny East Bay writers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The author in her not-sober years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in her not-sober years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: The addiction-recovery memoir is, obviously, far from a new thing -- especially when you look at writers talking about how alcohol helped fuel their craft. I'm curious what made you want to write \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>What made you feel like your story had something new to add?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Hepola:\u003c/strong> When I first started thinking about writing a book, I went to Barnes & Noble in Union Square [in New York], and I went to the addiction section and read everything I could find. I found this book about women and drinking, and the upshot was that women hide their drinking and there are no social rituals about drinking for women the way there are for men. And I just went, \"Hmm, this book is not true of my experience.\" By 2010, when I quit, there was the boom in wine for the last 15 or 20 years that's been driven by women, the growth of girls' night, or girls' drinking book clubs, bachelorette parties. All of it was around drinking. And I thought, \"I don't think this story's been told yet.\" We've all been living it, but it takes a while for the studies and the literature to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing is I was reading a lot of books about addiction that would end when the character got sober. And I'd be thinking, \"What next?\" Okay, fine, I'm going to quit drinking, but my life's gonna be over? I needed to answer what was after that. That's the beginning of a story, not the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/06/03/480460363/a-path-from-blackout-drunkenness-to-sobriety-and-self-acceptance\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Sarah Hepola talk about 'Blackout' on Fresh Air here.\u003c/a>]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/427435929/427853008\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the things that stuck with me about \u003cem>Blackout \u003c/em>is the way you talk about using alcohol to get out of your own head -- as a person who had always been the good girl, used to making everyone happy, that drinking provided a sort of way out.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It meant \u003cem>freedom\u003c/em>. Absolutely. I've always been oppressed by my own self-consciousness, by meeting other people's expectations of me and adapting to them -- 'Okay, I have to be cool with these people, and good with these people.' It was different performances on different stages and all of that stuff is so exhausting. Alcohol was the release from that. So when you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, of course, if you keep using that solution, and you over-rely on that solution and you don't find other ways to fix it, it will stop being a solution and start being a problem. It shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where I was [in 2010]. I didn't want to quit, but I had to, so I quit -- which, great. Yay, me. Let's all cheer for the heroine, right? But I'm still the same lousy person, oppressed by self-consciousness, desperate to be liked, and loved by men, and what do you do with all that when you don't have alcohol? [Figuring that out] has pretty much been the last six years of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So, you basically just summarized the internal monologue of most women I know, regardless of age or alcohol use. What have you learned in six years? Any tricks we can steal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think you have to try to care less. As you get older, you start realizing you have a finite amount of mental energy and, you know, maybe I need to stop worrying what strangers on the street think of my outfit. You realize you do have choices, and you start making choices toward actual agency. When I wasn't drinking the discomfort away, I started to problem-solve a little bit. If I was getting ready to go out and I was feeling like 'I hate going out,' I'd have to go, 'Okay, why am I uncomfortable? Right, I hate putting on clothes, because I'm overweight.' Whereas before it would just be 'Okay, I'm going to drink until I feel better.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's a very female problem, too: I would tell everyone what they wanted to hear. And then it would be, 'Okay, how am I gonna get out of this?' \u003cem>You can say no\u003c/em>. I think my AA sponsor was the first person to tell me that. And it's so simple, but it's so hard. I would shake sometimes doing it. Learning not to get myself into situations that I had to drink away was big. And so was asking for what I wanted and needed. For example, let's say I have a relationship with a guy, and he doesn't text me back. Instead of building a story in my head about why, you can ask \"Is there something going on?\" And for a lot of my life, that didn't seem like a possible option. I am repeatedly struck by the fact that I am 41 years old and learning skills I wish I'd learned when I was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The impact of sobriety on your dating and sex life definitely jumped out at me in the last third of the book. And it's interesting, because that's an area of life where I think even people who would never consider themselves to be problem drinkers are incredibly accustomed to using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety. It's acceptable, for some reason, in that context. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I spoke with a friend who's a 27-year-old sex writer about this, and she does not have a drinking problem. She said \"I don't think I could [date] without it.\" She writes about sex for a living! That's telling us something. That doesn't mean we all have to get sober -- believe me, I'm not interested in what other people are drinking. But why is it that we feel we need to drink in order to be sexual, almost to a crippling degree? I've had to completely recalibrate the way I do business, rethink my stance on casual sex. There's a lot of emotional vulnerability that comes with being sober. I think if I want physical closeness with someone, unfortunately, it has to be someone I really feel comfortable with, and not a lot of people jump through that hoop. I keep my door locked now. The door was open for a long time. [Laughs.] The door didn't even have a lock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does that almost feel like a thing you're not supposed to admit -- that sex involves feelings for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right! Because feelings are seen as weak; we see it as too traditionally feminine. You're basically calling bullshit on the party, and nobody wants to call bullshit. It's been hard for me: Am I a prude? But you really do have to stop worrying what everyone thinks of you. I'd be on a date with a guy and think \"If I could just get drunk I could have sex with him,\" where, without drinking, I didn't even want to touch him. And I realized there was a really well-worn path there: if I felt natural reluctance or fear, bulldoze it until you're in fuck-it-ville. I lived in fuck-it-ville for a lot of years, and people who live there, more power to 'em. But it's been an interesting social experiment not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Blackout by Sarah Hepola\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackout by Sarah Hepola\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I'm curious about your take on Amy Schumer in \u003cem>Trainwreck\u003c/em>, and how she handles the women-and-alcohol-and-casual-sex thing, since that film came out at almost exactly the same time as your book last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I like Amy Schumer so much, and it actually kind of creeps me out how many things we seem to have in common. It's really weird that my book, which starts with me coming out of a blackout in a Paris hotel room, came out during the same summer as Amy Schumer's movie, where she's coming out of a blackout in Staten Island -- but of course she's playing it for laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think both my book and that movie are reflecting, in our own ways, a cultural shift that has happened in the last 20 years, which is that it's seen as a position of power for women to drink and have sex like men. And I think that is both a position of power and a terrible handicap at times. One of the inspirations for my book -- I was reading Chelsea Handler's book, \u003cem>My Horizontal Life\u003c/em>, about sleeping with the wrong people, and that was also all played for laughs. I had just come out of that, and I didn't think it was that funny anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my drinking years I would tell those stories at parties and I always made people laugh, but I was curious: what was the emotional reality of those stories? If you didn't tell those stories at parties for a laugh, what would the real versions be? I mean, you could do that with Facebook, too: What's the real story here? Often, it'd be a lot of grisly shit. You hit some really raw places coming into sobriety. There's all this scar tissue around your sex life in a way I didn't see before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's funny, because in that movie, even though the ending (with Amy Schumer's character getting sober to work on her relationship) was clearly supposed to be good for her, part of me had this knee-jerk thing, like: Wait, why does she have to throw away her bong? For a \u003cem>guy\u003c/em>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of people felt that way, and it makes sense: There's a certain disappointment among women that they are not allowed the freedom of being badly behaved. Bad behavior is power, that's cool, that's transgressive. My question is, why do we think being a jerk is aspirational? I did not experience the Amy Schumer character who says cruel things to her friends, who's rude and detached, as \"Yeah, she's so awesome.\" Who wants to stand in line to be a dick?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also get it. I really do understand that women have felt shoehorned into positions of nurturer and good girl and people-pleaser, these things that have got you and I looking to alcohol. There is this real longing to see freedom from that. And that's a big conversation, but one thing I know is that I, as an adult person, am tired of that freedom coming through alcohol. That's a narrative cliche, but it's true: There's got to be another way that women free themselves aside from taking shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hepola will appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9 at 7:30pm, in conversation with Peggy Orenstein, and Saturday, June 11, with Anna Pulley at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland. Read her award-winning piece for Texas Monthly on \u003ca href=\"http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-alcohol-blackout/\" target=\"_blank\">campus sexual assault here\u003c/a>. She's also just begun a five-part series for Jezebel, \"\u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/ask-a-former-drunk-when-do-you-know-you-have-a-problem-1780859204\" target=\"_blank\">Ask a Former Drunk\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/25979/sarah-hepola-on-sex-blackouts-and-alternative-routes-to-freedom","authors":["7237"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_2864","pop_108","pop_197","pop_2849"],"featImg":"pop_26124","label":"pop"},"pop_14925":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14925","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14925","score":null,"sort":[1422995721000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-is-real-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":"'To Kill A Mockingbird' Sequel Is Real! Here's What You Need to Know","publishDate":1422995721,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Some people aren't readers. Ask them what their favorite book is and they'll say whatever they were required to read in middle school. They'll say \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>. So will dedicated book worms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/second-harper-lee-novel-published-july/\">news broke\u003c/a> that a sequel to Harper Lee's classic novel will be released on July 14, 2015. The story, titled \u003cem>Go Set A Watchman\u003c/em> and written before \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, will follow a grown-up Scout returning home to visit her father. It's not very often that people across generations and across reading inclinations freak out over a press release about a book. It's a testament to the power of this novel, a work that taught so many about empathy and unfortunately remains relevant to race relations in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the Internet react to the news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Jezebel was worried that someone might be taking advantage of Harper Lee (say it ain't so!):\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://jezebel.com/be-suspicious-of-the-new-harper-lee-novel-1683488258\">Be Suspicious of the New Harper Lee Novel\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Business Insider put a lot of pressure on your next Secret Santa with the revelation that the novel might have never existed if it wasn't for a Christmas gift:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/harper-lees-1956-christmas-present-2015-2\">The generosity of Harper Lee's friend might be the only reason the world got 'To Kill a Mockingbird'\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Vulture figured you're stuck at work, far away from your dog-eared copy of \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, and put together a list of some of Harper Lee's greatest non-fiction pieces:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/read-harper-lees-5-great-nonfiction-pieces.html?mid=googlenews\">Read Harper Lee's 5 Amazing Nonfiction Pieces\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">People on Twitter made jokes and Buzzfeed compiled them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/tequila-mockingbird#.so5RedD0J\">The Best Twitter Reactions To Harper Lee's \"To Kill A Mockingbird\" Sequel\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> dusted off their original review of \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://time.com/3693680/to-kill-a-mockingbird-review/\">Read TIME's Original Review of To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">And the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> got to the bottom of where Harper Lee has been all this time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-harper-lee-where-has-she-been-since-to-kill-a-mockingbird-was-published-20150203-story.html\">Where has Harper Lee been since 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was published?\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A collection of the best articles about To Kill A Mockingbird from around the Internet.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1422996471,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":337},"headData":{"title":"'To Kill A Mockingbird' Sequel Is Real! 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So will dedicated book worms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/second-harper-lee-novel-published-july/\">news broke\u003c/a> that a sequel to Harper Lee's classic novel will be released on July 14, 2015. The story, titled \u003cem>Go Set A Watchman\u003c/em> and written before \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, will follow a grown-up Scout returning home to visit her father. It's not very often that people across generations and across reading inclinations freak out over a press release about a book. It's a testament to the power of this novel, a work that taught so many about empathy and unfortunately remains relevant to race relations in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how did the Internet react to the news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Jezebel was worried that someone might be taking advantage of Harper Lee (say it ain't so!):\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://jezebel.com/be-suspicious-of-the-new-harper-lee-novel-1683488258\">Be Suspicious of the New Harper Lee Novel\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Business Insider put a lot of pressure on your next Secret Santa with the revelation that the novel might have never existed if it wasn't for a Christmas gift:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/harper-lees-1956-christmas-present-2015-2\">The generosity of Harper Lee's friend might be the only reason the world got 'To Kill a Mockingbird'\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Vulture figured you're stuck at work, far away from your dog-eared copy of \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>, and put together a list of some of Harper Lee's greatest non-fiction pieces:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/read-harper-lees-5-great-nonfiction-pieces.html?mid=googlenews\">Read Harper Lee's 5 Amazing Nonfiction Pieces\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">People on Twitter made jokes and Buzzfeed compiled them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/tequila-mockingbird#.so5RedD0J\">The Best Twitter Reactions To Harper Lee's \"To Kill A Mockingbird\" Sequel\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> dusted off their original review of \u003cem>To Kill A Mockingbird\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://time.com/3693680/to-kill-a-mockingbird-review/\">Read TIME's Original Review of To Kill a Mockingbird\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">And the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> got to the bottom of where Harper Lee has been all this time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-harper-lee-where-has-she-been-since-to-kill-a-mockingbird-was-published-20150203-story.html\">Where has Harper Lee been since 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was published?\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14925/to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-is-real-heres-what-you-need-to-know","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_108","pop_2741"],"featImg":"pop_14926","label":"pop"},"pop_14469":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_14469","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"14469","score":null,"sort":[1420639813000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"not-sure-what-to-read-in-2015-heres-a-book-for-each-month","title":"Not Sure What to Read in 2015? Here's A Book for Each Month","publishDate":1420639813,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>While Silicon Valley companies are usually about the latest and greatest gadgets, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is embracing a decidedly low-tech trend: book clubs. His New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to read a book every two weeks (the first selection is the 320 page paperback \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Power-Boardrooms-Battlefields/dp/0465065694\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>The End of Power\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> by Moises Naim\u003c/span>\u003c/a>). Unsurprisingly, the Facebook group\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Year-of-Books/818824488163482\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> “A Year of Books”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> already has more than 190,000 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Zuckerberg might not mind a dull book in the midst of his 26 book binge, most members of book clubs don't have the luxury of wasting time on uninspiring texts. So, here are some monthly suggestions to get the most out of your book club reading list this year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>January\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-800x1226.jpg\" alt=\"book-cover2\" width=\"300\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-800x1226.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-400x613.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-1440x2207.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a pessimist, January’s a cold, bleak, dark month of the year. For optimists, January’s a time for new possibilities and changes in your life. I choose the latter. This month’s pick is \u003cem>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate\u003c/em> by Jacqueline Kelly. Yes, it’s a YA historical novel, but the Newberry Award-winning story of 11-year-old Calpurnia trying to find her way at the turn of the century as a girl with an unconventional passion for the natural world will surely inspire more than a few readers to make the most of the start of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>February\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-400x604.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-800x1209.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a month focused on love, it’s tempting to select a romance. But if your book club rolls their eyes at Nicholas Sparks novels and finds the usual picks like \u003cem>The Time Traveler’s Wife\u003c/em> annoying, go for a twist: \u003cem>Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir\u003c/em> by Nick Flynn. While the \u003cem>About Flynn\u003c/em> movie (2012) didn’t get rave reviews, I’ve never met someone who didn’t love this true story about an incredibly complicated relationship between a con-artist-turned-poet, homeless father and his homeless shelter caseworker son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>March\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-400x468.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover\" width=\"400\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-400x468.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-800x937.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Women’s History Month and what better time to re-read a classic text? Past favorites this month have been the essayists Joan Didion and Nora Ephron, along with novelists Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. 2015’s pick? \u003cem>Jane Eyre\u003c/em> by Charlotte Bronte. I read it in high school and hated Jane for returning to Rochester. I learned to appreciate Jane’s strength in college, but a re-read in my mid-twenties made me truly appreciate the complex choices that Bronte constructed for Jane. What would a re-read teach you? There’s only one way to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>April\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-400x609.jpg\" alt=\"91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_\" width=\"300\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-400x609.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-800x1219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spring, suddenly everyone’s got a green thumb. While you contemplate ordering 17 different types of zucchini seeds even through you hate zucchini, farmers are actually gearing up for the start of their busy seasons. While there are plenty of farm memoirs (believe me, I’ve read more than a few), one of my favorites is \u003cem>The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love\u003c/em> by Kristin Kimball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>May\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/41-qMdPQUZL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/41-qMdPQUZL.jpg\" alt=\"41+qMdPQUZL\" width=\"300\" height=\"444\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toni Morrison’s newest book \u003cem>God Help the Child\u003c/em> is slated for an April 30th release. Sounds like a good excuse to devote the next month to reading this new book or going back to an old Morrison favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>June\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM-400x610.png\" alt=\"judy blume unlikely event\" width=\"300\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM-400x610.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you there, readers? It’s me, Judy Blume. The YA author is coming out with her first new novel for adults in 15 years and it’s already generating a lot of buzz. \u003cem>In the Unlikely Event\u003c/em> uses the real-life series of plane crashes over a span of three months in 1951-1952 near her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey as a backdrop to the stories of three generations of a family. Since it’s a Judy Blume book, expect plenty of “first love, estranged parents, difficult friendships, familial obligations, divorce, career ambitions, a grandparent’s love, a widower’s hope, and everything in between.” My bet: Oprah will probably be promoting this book pretty heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>July\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789-400x533.jpeg\" alt=\"1403057789\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you sip bottomless margaritas poolside, it’s inevitable that your reading lists descend into fluffy fare. But it’s a good time to remind yourself that once you get off that deck chair, you actually have work to do. Tracy Kidder’s \u003cem>Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World\u003c/em> tells the incredible story of a dedicated physician, who along with his charity, Partners in Health, is healing one patient, one country at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>August\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-400x616.jpg\" alt=\"the setup man\" width=\"300\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-400x616.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-800x1233.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the SF Giants only seem to win World Series in even years, but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy a day out at the ballpark. What better way to celebrate America’s pastime than with \u003cem>The Setup Man\u003c/em> by Bay Area writer T.T. Monday (a.k.a. Nick Taylor)? This mystery novel about an aging pitcher named Johnny Adcock, who moonlights as a P.I., is sure to win over baseball fans and everyone else too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>September\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Greg Martin\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Greg Martin\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even in the mad rush of fall publications, there will be plenty of attention given to Jonathan Franzen’s latest book\u003cem> Purity.\u003c/em> While little has been revealed yet about this book, your book club can have the satisfaction of being among the first to judge it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>October\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-400x594.jpg\" alt=\"In The Heart of The Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-400x594.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-800x1188.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, you could pick \u003cem>Frankenstein\u003c/em> or any Stephen King novel, but why not try something off the beaten path? Nathaniel Philbrick’s \u003cem>In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex\u003c/em> tells the story of the 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaleship \u003cem>Essex\u003c/em> in the South Pacific. While drifting for 90 days in three small whaleboats, the eight survivors faced “weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.” Sounds too horrific? There’s always \u003cem>In Cold Blood\u003c/em> by Truman Capote. Both require sleeping with a nightlight on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>November\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"all-the-way-home-david-giff\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff-400x607.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading David Giffels’ hilarious book \u003cem>All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House\u003c/em> will make you grateful for all the little things you take for granted in your life, like a roof not infested with all manner of wildlife. Fair warning: despite the many pitfalls Giffels endures trying to restore this Gilded Age mansion in Akron, Ohio, you may also find yourself feeling a little jealous that you aren’t there to enjoy the rewards of his hard work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>December\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"71097md+r-L\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tempting to choose \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> by Charles Dickens and celebrate the holiday spirit. But for those looking for a beautifully written book that reminds you of the quiet majesty of the American West and the pioneer spirit, there’s always James Galvin’s \u003cem>The Meadow\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A book club for the new year!","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1420593471,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1155},"headData":{"title":"Not Sure What to Read in 2015? Here's A Book for Each Month | KQED","description":"A book club for the new year!","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"14469 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=14469","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/01/07/not-sure-what-to-read-in-2015-heres-a-book-for-each-month/","disqusTitle":"Not Sure What to Read in 2015? Here's A Book for Each Month","path":"/pop/14469/not-sure-what-to-read-in-2015-heres-a-book-for-each-month","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While Silicon Valley companies are usually about the latest and greatest gadgets, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is embracing a decidedly low-tech trend: book clubs. His New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to read a book every two weeks (the first selection is the 320 page paperback \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Power-Boardrooms-Battlefields/dp/0465065694\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>The End of Power\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> by Moises Naim\u003c/span>\u003c/a>). Unsurprisingly, the Facebook group\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Year-of-Books/818824488163482\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> “A Year of Books”\u003c/span>\u003c/a> already has more than 190,000 fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Zuckerberg might not mind a dull book in the midst of his 26 book binge, most members of book clubs don't have the luxury of wasting time on uninspiring texts. So, here are some monthly suggestions to get the most out of your book club reading list this year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>January\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14479\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-800x1226.jpg\" alt=\"book-cover2\" width=\"300\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-800x1226.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-400x613.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2-1440x2207.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/book-cover2.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a pessimist, January’s a cold, bleak, dark month of the year. For optimists, January’s a time for new possibilities and changes in your life. I choose the latter. This month’s pick is \u003cem>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate\u003c/em> by Jacqueline Kelly. Yes, it’s a YA historical novel, but the Newberry Award-winning story of 11-year-old Calpurnia trying to find her way at the turn of the century as a girl with an unconventional passion for the natural world will surely inspire more than a few readers to make the most of the start of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>February\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-400x604.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover-800x1209.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1320877131-another-bullshit-night-in-suck-city-book-cover.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a month focused on love, it’s tempting to select a romance. But if your book club rolls their eyes at Nicholas Sparks novels and finds the usual picks like \u003cem>The Time Traveler’s Wife\u003c/em> annoying, go for a twist: \u003cem>Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir\u003c/em> by Nick Flynn. While the \u003cem>About Flynn\u003c/em> movie (2012) didn’t get rave reviews, I’ve never met someone who didn’t love this true story about an incredibly complicated relationship between a con-artist-turned-poet, homeless father and his homeless shelter caseworker son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>March\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14481\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-400x468.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover\" width=\"400\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-400x468.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover-800x937.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Fritz-Eichenberg-Jane-Eyre-Cover.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Women’s History Month and what better time to re-read a classic text? Past favorites this month have been the essayists Joan Didion and Nora Ephron, along with novelists Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. 2015’s pick? \u003cem>Jane Eyre\u003c/em> by Charlotte Bronte. I read it in high school and hated Jane for returning to Rochester. I learned to appreciate Jane’s strength in college, but a re-read in my mid-twenties made me truly appreciate the complex choices that Bronte constructed for Jane. What would a re-read teach you? There’s only one way to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>April\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-400x609.jpg\" alt=\"91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_\" width=\"300\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-400x609.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_-800x1219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91-yCuCqZjL._SL1500_.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Spring, suddenly everyone’s got a green thumb. While you contemplate ordering 17 different types of zucchini seeds even through you hate zucchini, farmers are actually gearing up for the start of their busy seasons. While there are plenty of farm memoirs (believe me, I’ve read more than a few), one of my favorites is \u003cem>The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love\u003c/em> by Kristin Kimball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>May\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/41-qMdPQUZL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14484\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/41-qMdPQUZL.jpg\" alt=\"41+qMdPQUZL\" width=\"300\" height=\"444\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toni Morrison’s newest book \u003cem>God Help the Child\u003c/em> is slated for an April 30th release. Sounds like a good excuse to devote the next month to reading this new book or going back to an old Morrison favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>June\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14485\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM-400x610.png\" alt=\"judy blume unlikely event\" width=\"300\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM-400x610.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/Screen-shot-2015-01-06-at-2.05.11-PM.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are you there, readers? It’s me, Judy Blume. The YA author is coming out with her first new novel for adults in 15 years and it’s already generating a lot of buzz. \u003cem>In the Unlikely Event\u003c/em> uses the real-life series of plane crashes over a span of three months in 1951-1952 near her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey as a backdrop to the stories of three generations of a family. Since it’s a Judy Blume book, expect plenty of “first love, estranged parents, difficult friendships, familial obligations, divorce, career ambitions, a grandparent’s love, a widower’s hope, and everything in between.” My bet: Oprah will probably be promoting this book pretty heavily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>July\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14486\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789-400x533.jpeg\" alt=\"1403057789\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789-400x533.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/1403057789.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you sip bottomless margaritas poolside, it’s inevitable that your reading lists descend into fluffy fare. But it’s a good time to remind yourself that once you get off that deck chair, you actually have work to do. Tracy Kidder’s \u003cem>Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World\u003c/em> tells the incredible story of a dedicated physician, who along with his charity, Partners in Health, is healing one patient, one country at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>August\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-400x616.jpg\" alt=\"the setup man\" width=\"300\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-400x616.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_-800x1233.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/91S8ufFysFL._SL1500_.jpg 973w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, the SF Giants only seem to win World Series in even years, but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy a day out at the ballpark. What better way to celebrate America’s pastime than with \u003cem>The Setup Man\u003c/em> by Bay Area writer T.T. Monday (a.k.a. Nick Taylor)? This mystery novel about an aging pitcher named Johnny Adcock, who moonlights as a P.I., is sure to win over baseball fans and everyone else too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>September\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14488\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-400x265.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Greg Martin\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-400x265.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/330827_283529641662276_599789362_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Greg Martin\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even in the mad rush of fall publications, there will be plenty of attention given to Jonathan Franzen’s latest book\u003cem> Purity.\u003c/em> While little has been revealed yet about this book, your book club can have the satisfaction of being among the first to judge it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>October\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-400x594.jpg\" alt=\"In The Heart of The Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-400x594.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea-800x1188.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/In-The-Heart-of-The-Sea.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, you could pick \u003cem>Frankenstein\u003c/em> or any Stephen King novel, but why not try something off the beaten path? Nathaniel Philbrick’s \u003cem>In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex\u003c/em> tells the story of the 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaleship \u003cem>Essex\u003c/em> in the South Pacific. While drifting for 90 days in three small whaleboats, the eight survivors faced “weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.” Sounds too horrific? There’s always \u003cem>In Cold Blood\u003c/em> by Truman Capote. Both require sleeping with a nightlight on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>November\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff-400x607.jpg\" alt=\"all-the-way-home-david-giff\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff-400x607.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/all-the-way-home-david-giff.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading David Giffels’ hilarious book \u003cem>All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House\u003c/em> will make you grateful for all the little things you take for granted in your life, like a roof not infested with all manner of wildlife. Fair warning: despite the many pitfalls Giffels endures trying to restore this Gilded Age mansion in Akron, Ohio, you may also find yourself feeling a little jealous that you aren’t there to enjoy the rewards of his hard work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>December\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14491\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"71097md+r-L\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/71097md-r-L.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tempting to choose \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> by Charles Dickens and celebrate the holiday spirit. But for those looking for a beautifully written book that reminds you of the quiet majesty of the American West and the pioneer spirit, there’s always James Galvin’s \u003cem>The Meadow\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/14469/not-sure-what-to-read-in-2015-heres-a-book-for-each-month","authors":["3218"],"categories":["pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_1114","pop_108"],"featImg":"pop_14501","label":"pop"},"pop_13817":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13817","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13817","score":null,"sort":[1412688639000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-tour-of-famous-writers-homes-in-the-greater-bay-area","title":"A Tour of Famous Writers’ Homes in the Greater Bay Area","publishDate":1412688639,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">Virginia Woolf famously said women need a room of one’s own, but many California writers also found it necessary to build one-of-a-kind homes. From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13822 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_House_and_Hawk_Tower#mediaviewer/File:Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower,_Tor_House,_Carmel,_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.JPG\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robinson Jeffers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.torhouse.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tor House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">“My fingers had the art to make stone love stone,” wrote Robinson Jeffers in his eponymous poem about his home, which he built from 1919 until about 1925. Jeffers’ poetry (he is most well-known for the epic poem \"\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Roan Stallion\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">\" \u003c/span>and the collection \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Tamar and Other Poems\u003c/span>) is infused with a deep appreciation of the natural world and so is the home he built himself after an apprenticeship with a stonemason. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> Visitors can climb the steep steps of Hawk Tower to see the unicorns and hawks (personal symbols of Jeffers and his wife, Una) along with other treasures associated with Irish folklore embedded between the stones. (There’s also a secret staircase inside that Jeffers built for his sons.) Inside his cottage-like home, guests can find rocks and treasures inserted in the walls from around the world (including pieces rumored to be from an Egyptian pyramid). \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">In this intimate tour, guests are asked to read his poem “The Bed by the Window” and to gaze at the very bed in which Jeffers wanted to – and did – pass away in in 1962. While Jeffers was, at first, well-appreciated in his time (gracing the cover of \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Time Magazine \u003c/span>in 1932), he was later disregarded due to his belief in \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers#Inhumanism\">inhumanism\u003c/a> and opposition to U.S. involvement in WWII\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13823 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ken Lund, via Flickr\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ken Lund, via \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/13407835925/\">Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steinbeck Country, Monterey County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Of course, if you’re in Carmel, thoughts drift towards the other, incredibly popular writers of the area – especially \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Steinbeck. \u003c/span>There’s a wealth of riches in “Steinbeck Country,” including the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.steinbeck.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">National Steinbeck Center\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtycounty.com/pgs-steinbeck/memories.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">final resting place\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, and his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://steinbeckhouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">childhood home \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">(now a restaurant – I highly recommend the Steinbeck lasagna!) in Salinas. In Monterey, Steinbeck fans can look at his best friend \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monterey.org/museums/CityMuseums/PacificBiologicalLaboratories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Ed Rickett’s lab\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> (the inspiration for the character Doc in \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Cannery Row\u003c/span>) or even stay in one of his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/08/06/stay-at-the-homes-of-your-favorite-writers-thanks-to-airbnb/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">family’s homes\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Other local highlights include the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c/span> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.historicmonterey.org/hb/stevenson_house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">tribute\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> in Monterey and the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Henry Miller \u003c/span>memorial \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">library \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">in Big Sur. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13824 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jack London’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://jacklondonpark.com/jack-london-wolf-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wolf House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Glen Ellen, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Sure, it’s fun to visit Jack London’s favorite watering hole – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://heinolds.com/hew/bar_info.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">-- in Oakland’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/about-us/about-jack-london-square\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Square\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, but London’s real home was in Glen Ellen, CA, not far from the heart of Sonoma’s Wine Country. London, the thrill-seeking early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Century writer most known for the adventure stories \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Call of the Wild\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">White Fang, \u003c/span>and \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Sea Wolf, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">ultimately\u003c/span> craved tranquility. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">All I wanted,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">London wrote\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“was a quiet place in the country to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After visiting the mountains of Sonoma with his second wife, Charmian, London set out to create his retreat. Once he built Beauty Ranch (a large, working ranch along with a cottage where the Londons lived), the writer decided to create a permanent stone house, named after the animals he was so often identified with – wolves. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Unfortunately, this grand house designed by San Francisco architect Albert Farr burned to the ground in 1913, only days before the Londons could inhabit it. Today, the area is a state historic park where viewers can hike to London’s grave, visit the Museum Charmian designed that includes much of the furniture and books never moved into Wolf House, and, of course, tour the charred ruins of the home. While the effervescent London lived only a few years after the fire (he died at age 40 in 1916), these tributes to the larger-than-life man still thrill visitors nearly a century later. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Tourists in Glen Ellen can also visit the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Research Center and Jack London Lodge\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Study in Tao House. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study in Tao House. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Eugene O’Neill’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/euon/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tao House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Danville, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">In 1914, America’s most honored playwright wrote, “I want to be an artist or nothing.” By the 1920s, he was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his plays, all of which tried to uncover the mysterious forces “behind life,” which helped to shape human destiny. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (still the only American\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> playwright to have received that honor), the Irish-American artist was restless. After traveling and living all over the world, he and third wife, Carlotta Monterey, bought the 158 acre site that was eventually to become Tao House (inspired by the great Chinese Taoist religious traditions) and a National Historic Site. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Carlotta’s deep love for Spanish-colonial architecture and Chinese furniture is evident throughout the house. While O’Neill was sickly during his seven-year stint at Tao House (the longest period he ever lived in one place), he completed first drafts of some of his most famous plays – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cem>The Iceman Cometh\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Long Day's Journey into Night\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">(for which he posthumously received a fourth Pulitzer)\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>and\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\"> \u003cem>A Moon for the Misbegotten\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Visitors to the remote site get a sense of the great tranquility O’Neill must have felt as he spent the morning working in a study closed off by three separate doors before a quiet evening at home listening to jazz and blues records with his beloved dog, Blemie. While O’Neill died in 1953, the legacy of what he had hoped would be his “final harbor” lives on. Apart from the stunning views of the San Ramon Valley, Tao House hosts a great many events for artists and the public.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Since the tour only takes about two and a half hours (including the shuttle ride from Danville), visitors can also take in the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/jomu/planyourvisit/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">John Muir Historic Site\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> in Martinez, CA. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418162774,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":1142},"headData":{"title":"A Tour of Famous Writers’ Homes in the Greater Bay Area | KQED","description":"From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"13817 http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=13817","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/10/07/a-tour-of-famous-writers-homes-in-the-greater-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"A Tour of Famous Writers’ Homes in the Greater Bay Area","path":"/pop/13817/a-tour-of-famous-writers-homes-in-the-greater-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">Virginia Woolf famously said women need a room of one’s own, but many California writers also found it necessary to build one-of-a-kind homes. From towers to charred ruins to spectacular views, these are just a few of the literary riches you can visit within driving distance of the Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13822 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/640px-Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower_Tor_House_Carmel_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawk Tower, Tor House, Carmel, CA. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_House_and_Hawk_Tower#mediaviewer/File:Robinson_Jeffers_Hawk_Tower,_Tor_House,_Carmel,_CA_2008_Photo_by_Celeste_Davison.JPG\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robinson Jeffers’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.torhouse.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tor House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">“My fingers had the art to make stone love stone,” wrote Robinson Jeffers in his eponymous poem about his home, which he built from 1919 until about 1925. Jeffers’ poetry (he is most well-known for the epic poem \"\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Roan Stallion\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">\" \u003c/span>and the collection \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Tamar and Other Poems\u003c/span>) is infused with a deep appreciation of the natural world and so is the home he built himself after an apprenticeship with a stonemason. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> Visitors can climb the steep steps of Hawk Tower to see the unicorns and hawks (personal symbols of Jeffers and his wife, Una) along with other treasures associated with Irish folklore embedded between the stones. (There’s also a secret staircase inside that Jeffers built for his sons.) Inside his cottage-like home, guests can find rocks and treasures inserted in the walls from around the world (including pieces rumored to be from an Egyptian pyramid). \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">In this intimate tour, guests are asked to read his poem “The Bed by the Window” and to gaze at the very bed in which Jeffers wanted to – and did – pass away in in 1962. While Jeffers was, at first, well-appreciated in his time (gracing the cover of \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Time Magazine \u003c/span>in 1932), he was later disregarded due to his belief in \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers#Inhumanism\">inhumanism\u003c/a> and opposition to U.S. involvement in WWII\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13823 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ken Lund, via Flickr\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/13407835925_63e3983a47_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ken Lund, via \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/13407835925/\">Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steinbeck Country, Monterey County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Of course, if you’re in Carmel, thoughts drift towards the other, incredibly popular writers of the area – especially \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Steinbeck. \u003c/span>There’s a wealth of riches in “Steinbeck Country,” including the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.steinbeck.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">National Steinbeck Center\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtycounty.com/pgs-steinbeck/memories.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">final resting place\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, and his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://steinbeckhouse.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">childhood home \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">(now a restaurant – I highly recommend the Steinbeck lasagna!) in Salinas. In Monterey, Steinbeck fans can look at his best friend \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monterey.org/museums/CityMuseums/PacificBiologicalLaboratories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Ed Rickett’s lab\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> (the inspiration for the character Doc in \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Cannery Row\u003c/span>) or even stay in one of his \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2014/08/06/stay-at-the-homes-of-your-favorite-writers-thanks-to-airbnb/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">family’s homes\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Other local highlights include the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Robert Louis Stevenson\u003c/span> \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.historicmonterey.org/hb/stevenson_house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">tribute\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\"> in Monterey and the \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Henry Miller \u003c/span>memorial \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.henrymiller.org/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">library \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">in Big Sur. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13824\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13824 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/1024px-Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jack London’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://jacklondonpark.com/jack-london-wolf-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wolf House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Glen Ellen, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">Sure, it’s fun to visit Jack London’s favorite watering hole – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://heinolds.com/hew/bar_info.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">-- in Oakland’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondonsquare.com/about-us/about-jack-london-square\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Square\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">, but London’s real home was in Glen Ellen, CA, not far from the heart of Sonoma’s Wine Country. London, the thrill-seeking early 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> Century writer most known for the adventure stories \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Call of the Wild\u003c/span>, \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">White Fang, \u003c/span>and \u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">The Sea Wolf, \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"apple__style__span__Char\">ultimately\u003c/span> craved tranquility. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">All I wanted,” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">London wrote\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">“was a quiet place in the country to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After visiting the mountains of Sonoma with his second wife, Charmian, London set out to create his retreat. Once he built Beauty Ranch (a large, working ranch along with a cottage where the Londons lived), the writer decided to create a permanent stone house, named after the animals he was so often identified with – wolves. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Unfortunately, this grand house designed by San Francisco architect Albert Farr burned to the ground in 1913, only days before the Londons could inhabit it. Today, the area is a state historic park where viewers can hike to London’s grave, visit the Museum Charmian designed that includes much of the furniture and books never moved into Wolf House, and, of course, tour the charred ruins of the home. While the effervescent London lived only a few years after the fire (he died at age 40 in 1916), these tributes to the larger-than-life man still thrill visitors nearly a century later. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Tourists in Glen Ellen can also visit the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jacklondon.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">Jack London Research Center and Jack London Lodge\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13825\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-13825 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Study in Tao House. Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/10/800px-STUDY_IN_TAO_HOUSE_EUGENE_ONEILL_NATL_HISTORIC_SITE_CALIFORNIA.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study in Tao House. Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_House#mediaviewer/File:Wolf_House_ruins_1.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Eugene O’Neill’s \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/euon/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Tao House\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">: Danville, CA\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">In 1914, America’s most honored playwright wrote, “I want to be an artist or nothing.” By the 1920s, he was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his plays, all of which tried to uncover the mysterious forces “behind life,” which helped to shape human destiny. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">After being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (still the only American\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> playwright to have received that honor), the Irish-American artist was restless. After traveling and living all over the world, he and third wife, Carlotta Monterey, bought the 158 acre site that was eventually to become Tao House (inspired by the great Chinese Taoist religious traditions) and a National Historic Site. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Carlotta’s deep love for Spanish-colonial architecture and Chinese furniture is evident throughout the house. While O’Neill was sickly during his seven-year stint at Tao House (the longest period he ever lived in one place), he completed first drafts of some of his most famous plays – \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cem>The Iceman Cometh\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Long Day's Journey into Night\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">(for which he posthumously received a fourth Pulitzer)\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">, \u003c/span>and\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\"> \u003cem>A Moon for the Misbegotten\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Visitors to the remote site get a sense of the great tranquility O’Neill must have felt as he spent the morning working in a study closed off by three separate doors before a quiet evening at home listening to jazz and blues records with his beloved dog, Blemie. While O’Neill died in 1953, the legacy of what he had hoped would be his “final harbor” lives on. Apart from the stunning views of the San Ramon Valley, Tao House hosts a great many events for artists and the public.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">Since the tour only takes about two and a half hours (including the shuttle ride from Danville), visitors can also take in the \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/jomu/planyourvisit/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\">John Muir Historic Site\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Emphasis__Char\"> in Martinez, CA. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/13817/a-tour-of-famous-writers-homes-in-the-greater-bay-area","authors":["3218"],"categories":["pop_131","pop_1548"],"tags":["pop_108"],"featImg":"pop_13831","label":"pop"},"pop_13205":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_13205","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"13205","score":null,"sort":[1410208455000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"love-art-love-books-the-best-of-the-art-novels","title":"Love Art? Love Books? The Best of the Art Novels","publishDate":1410208455,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13394 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/art-novels.jpg\" alt=\"art-novels\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/art-novels.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/art-novels-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">By Maria Judnick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna Tartt’s recent 775 page novel \u003cem>The Goldfinch\u003c/em> earned widespread critical -- and reader -- acclaim for its inventive plot that involved a painting stolen from the Museum of Modern Art. But she’s not the only author who has slipped more than a little art into their plots. Here are some of our favorite books that blend fiction with the art world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Child At Heart: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-13400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/files-basil.jpg\" alt=\"files-basil\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/files-basil.jpg 449w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/files-basil-400x539.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>by E. L. Konigsburg\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how old you are, it’s never too late to read this 1967 children’s classic. Two children run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. After many enchanting stories of how they settle into their new home, the kids take note of an exhibit featuring a statue of an angel that may or may not have been carved by Michelangelo. The resourceful siblings do their research and visit the benefactor who sold the angel at auction for a measly $225 to find out the secret of the statue, and, in the process, discover they’ve met their match in this smart but eccentric older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Serious “Artiste”:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13402\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty.jpg\" alt=\"an-object-of-beauty\" width=\"250\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty.jpg 947w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty-400x354.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty-800x709.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">An Object of Beauty\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> by Steve Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Martin is much more than just a comedian; particularly in recent years, he has brought his other talents to light: banjo player, author, and serious art collector. His 2010 novel follows the meteoric career of Lacey Yeager, a young, smart and ambitious art seller in the 1990s and 2000s. Martin's intricate, knowing details based on his personal insights of the art market will make any reader feel like the ultimate insider at places like Christie’s and Sotheby’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Historical Romance, Colin-Firth-Swooning Fans: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-13401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/girl-with-a-pearl-earring.jpg\" alt=\"girl-with-a-pearl-earring\" width=\"220\" height=\"343\">Girl with a Pearl Earring \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>By Tracy Chevalier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This 1999 novel was popular for a reason: it offers a compelling fictional backstory to the famous painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1665) by the mysterious and methodical Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. A young maid, Griet, enters the Vermeer household, where the painter gradually discovers she has an eye for art. Griet spends much of her time fighting off suitors in the book -- from the local butcher’s son Pieter to Vermeer’s lecherous patron, Van Ruijven -- all while seemingly pining for the married painter. Will the title painting commissioned by Van Ruijven get finished without Vermeer’s jealous wife interfering? Will Griet and Johannes give in to their urges? Best of all, when readers finish the book, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/46E3xUTR6A0\">a 2003 film\u003c/a> starring a young Scarlett Johansson and -- of course -- a smoldering Colin Firth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Heart-Pounding Mystery Enthusiast:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13392\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744.jpg\" alt=\"123744\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744.jpg 432w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">The Maltese Falcon \u003c/em>by Dashiell Hammett\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forget all about Dan Brown’s \u003cem>Da Vinci Code. \u003c/em>Hammett’s 1929 novel, which introduced the world to hard-boiled detective Sam Spade, offers readers more than just a plot summary for the famous 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart. Listed 56\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> by the Modern Library on their list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Hammett’s writing brings a noir-like, gritty quality to San Francisco life. Of course, once readers finish the book there’s always a literary trip to Hammett’s home (891 Post Street #401), John’s Grill (63 Ellis Street – also home to the Dashiell Hammett society), and the Flood Building to stare at the Falcon itself displayed behind glass (870 Market Street).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Literary Reader:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-13393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/1f58fe-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"virginia woolf to the lighthouse\" width=\"250\" height=\"347\">\u003cem>To the Lighthouse \u003c/em>by Virginia Woolf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how many times you read Virginia Woolf, there’s always another layer to peel back in her books. Her 1927 novel \u003cem>To The Lighthouse\u003c/em> is no exception. Often cited as one of the best English-language novels of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, this three-part work muses on the meaning of time and loss, but involves very little actual plot. Mrs. Ramsey and her family have a summer house on the Isle of Skye where they try to visit the local titular lighthouse on separate occasions, while Lily Briscoe, a visiting artist, attempts to figure out how to finish a painting. What matters more -- leaving a legacy or an execution of a vision? While Woolf’s readers are often entranced by her point-of-view shifts, this novel also offers juicy morsels of autobiographical elements tucked into the text.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Texts Worth A Read: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Girl in Hyacinth Blue\u003c/em> by Susan Vreeland; \u003cem>Chasing Vermeer\u003c/em> by Blue Balliett; \u003cem>The Name of the Rose\u003c/em> by Umberto Eco; \u003cem>The Lacuna\u003c/em> by Barbara Kingsolver; and \u003cem>The Birth of Venus\u003c/em> by Sarah Dunant.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With the success of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, we decided to take a look at the best novels that blend fiction and the art world.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1418162648,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":815},"headData":{"title":"Love Art? 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After many enchanting stories of how they settle into their new home, the kids take note of an exhibit featuring a statue of an angel that may or may not have been carved by Michelangelo. The resourceful siblings do their research and visit the benefactor who sold the angel at auction for a measly $225 to find out the secret of the statue, and, in the process, discover they’ve met their match in this smart but eccentric older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Serious “Artiste”:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13402\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty.jpg\" alt=\"an-object-of-beauty\" width=\"250\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty.jpg 947w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty-400x354.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/an-object-of-beauty-800x709.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">An Object of Beauty\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> by Steve Martin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Martin is much more than just a comedian; particularly in recent years, he has brought his other talents to light: banjo player, author, and serious art collector. His 2010 novel follows the meteoric career of Lacey Yeager, a young, smart and ambitious art seller in the 1990s and 2000s. Martin's intricate, knowing details based on his personal insights of the art market will make any reader feel like the ultimate insider at places like Christie’s and Sotheby’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Historical Romance, Colin-Firth-Swooning Fans: \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-13401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/girl-with-a-pearl-earring.jpg\" alt=\"girl-with-a-pearl-earring\" width=\"220\" height=\"343\">Girl with a Pearl Earring \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>By Tracy Chevalier\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This 1999 novel was popular for a reason: it offers a compelling fictional backstory to the famous painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1665) by the mysterious and methodical Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. A young maid, Griet, enters the Vermeer household, where the painter gradually discovers she has an eye for art. Griet spends much of her time fighting off suitors in the book -- from the local butcher’s son Pieter to Vermeer’s lecherous patron, Van Ruijven -- all while seemingly pining for the married painter. Will the title painting commissioned by Van Ruijven get finished without Vermeer’s jealous wife interfering? Will Griet and Johannes give in to their urges? Best of all, when readers finish the book, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/46E3xUTR6A0\">a 2003 film\u003c/a> starring a young Scarlett Johansson and -- of course -- a smoldering Colin Firth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Heart-Pounding Mystery Enthusiast:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13392\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744.jpg\" alt=\"123744\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744.jpg 432w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/123744-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">The Maltese Falcon \u003c/em>by Dashiell Hammett\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forget all about Dan Brown’s \u003cem>Da Vinci Code. \u003c/em>Hammett’s 1929 novel, which introduced the world to hard-boiled detective Sam Spade, offers readers more than just a plot summary for the famous 1941 film starring Humphrey Bogart. Listed 56\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> by the Modern Library on their list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, Hammett’s writing brings a noir-like, gritty quality to San Francisco life. Of course, once readers finish the book there’s always a literary trip to Hammett’s home (891 Post Street #401), John’s Grill (63 Ellis Street – also home to the Dashiell Hammett society), and the Flood Building to stare at the Falcon itself displayed behind glass (870 Market Street).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>For the Literary Reader:\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-13393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/1f58fe-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"virginia woolf to the lighthouse\" width=\"250\" height=\"347\">\u003cem>To the Lighthouse \u003c/em>by Virginia Woolf\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter how many times you read Virginia Woolf, there’s always another layer to peel back in her books. Her 1927 novel \u003cem>To The Lighthouse\u003c/em> is no exception. Often cited as one of the best English-language novels of the 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century, this three-part work muses on the meaning of time and loss, but involves very little actual plot. Mrs. Ramsey and her family have a summer house on the Isle of Skye where they try to visit the local titular lighthouse on separate occasions, while Lily Briscoe, a visiting artist, attempts to figure out how to finish a painting. What matters more -- leaving a legacy or an execution of a vision? 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