Notes & links: 'Palo Alto'

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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