HeyJaredBrian Tanguay
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California Dreams with Miriam Pawel (opens the original)
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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Miriam Pawel’s latest work, California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California, examines the groundbreaking history of one of the world’s elite public universities. She recently spoke with Santa Barbara Independent contributor Brian Tanguay, cofounder of the California Review of Books, who previously reviewed the book (tinyurl.com/2vz6acy5). Before we talk about your book, can you talk about your evolution from journalist to award-winning
Book Review | ‘Please Don’t Touch the Body’ by Emily Doyle (opens the original)
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I appreciate a finely crafted short story, and the 11 stories in this collection easily meet that criteria. For a debut collection, Emily Doyle displays unusual and impressive range. In “Thursdays for Haru,” Haru’s husband is abducted by aliens at 3:23 a.m. every Thursday and returned to his bed, still in his striped pajamas, at precisely 6:18 a.m., no worse for wear. This goes on for six years, but rather than terror, Haru is grateful for the solitude as it allows her to grow a secret life of h
Book Review | ‘California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California’ by Miriam Pawel (opens the original)
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As Miriam Pawel writes in the Preface to her superb history of the University of California system, the many aspects of this educational juggernaut defy precise quantification. UC campuses are home to record numbers of Nobel Prize laureates and a workforce that makes the UC one of the largest employers in the state, while UC alumni are leaders in government, law, education, business, agriculture, and technology. What makes this book exceptional is the way Pawel captures human dimensions that aff
Book Review | ‘American Alt: A True Story of Madness and Friendship in a Fractured Country’ by Chris Lockhart (opens the original)
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At various points in this remarkable account of friendship and mental illness, I had to remind myself that I was reading nonfiction. So vivid is the narrative that I found myself returning to Chris Lockhart’s notes about how the book came about, the methods he employed to capture the several voices of his friend Michael Dodd. While Michael’s quest to heal himself from a lifetime of trauma makes up most of the book, this is also Lockhart’s story, his own quest to answer questions about his choice
Book Review | ‘Breathing Is How Some People Stay Alive: Stories' by Alison Gadsby (opens the original)
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Competitive or recreational swimming is a tableau for most of the 19 stories in this collection, along with family conflict, failed love, and humanoids with attitude. In the first story, “The Trouble With Roger,” we encounter Roger, a humanoid whose programming is off kilter. Roger’s filled with rage and jealousy, complains about his domestic chores, and rails against the technicians who try to manipulate his “emotional grid.” If unhinged machines like Roger are the future world of AI helpers or
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