Our June and July 2024 book was Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversations!
Selection of links to explore:
Oakland Museum of California - Ongoing exhibition: Gallery of California History; online exhibition: California Perspectives on American History.
KQED Forum - 2022 show with author Richard White about his book Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits, and the Birth of a University
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang - A 2022 novel set against the backdrop of the 1880s American West.
Eadweard Muybridge's photo collection at Stanford (online collection)
More on the photographic and artistic representation (touched on in the book) of the workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Nomadland (2020) - Features work in an Amazon warehouse.
Video from the 53rd Stanford Powwow held this May. (The history of the gathering.)
Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles' film, formerly known as Mr. Arkadin.
Dangerous Minds (1995) - Inspired by the memoir by one-time Carlmont High School (Belmont) teacher LouAnne Johnson.
Recent coverage of the Bohemian Club: "Secretive, all-male SF Bohemian Club facing new wage theft accusations" (SF Chronicle)
A 2021 SF Chronicle article about the movie Dirty Harry at 50: "50 years ago, Dirty Harry dared wimpy San Francisco liberalism to make his day"
And, Marina Abramovic, whose memoir, Walk Through Walls, we read, was in the news: "Give unconditional love to each other: artist Marina Abramovic silences Glastonbury for 7 minutes" (The Guardian).
Next Month: August 18
We stay with our California theme, but now through the distinctive gaze of Joan Didion in Where I Was From: A Memoir.
When + Where
Sunday, August 18
11:15 a.m. to approx. 12:30 p.m.
@ Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, San Francisco
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