Last January, before all hell broke loose, Seven Stories Press republished Upton Sinclair’s 891-page anthology, The Cry for Justice, subtitled An Anthology of Social Protest with the original…
Posts tagged as “essays”
Greetings from the epicenter. A capital of culture is a nice place to be, but not the capital of a virus—or so you would think.…
Sitting in the morning sun on the front porch of my house next to the Cascadilla Gorge in Ithaca, New York earlier this week, I…
Berkeley, 13 April 2020 — It had to happen. And now it has. People, not statistics or anecdotes, have died. They’re people, caught up in…
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned what follows here in this space before, and I hate to repeat myself, but it has particular relevance now. I'd…
Would the AVA's resident expert on the media, Flynn Washburne, regard this story as newsworthy? Probably not! After all, it’s not about his backyard and…
With daily news of the spreading Coronavirus in my mind I picked up a two-door Toyota
Ever see the sign for Burke Hill south of Ukiah and wonder who Burke was? Here's part of the answer. Alexander Burke was born in…
A recent and continuing series of articles by CT Rowe complains of unfair treatment by the Anderson Valley Land Trust.
For fascinating reading or listening there is “The Great Influenza” by John Barry. It’s available from the County Library and provides hours of informative material…
March 28, 2020 — The NY Times, even in the best of times, presents a picture of New York barely recognizable to the majority of…